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Page 162
... Smith's sf dramatizes the power , for good or ill , of innovation , a focus that links his stories to the traditions of popular sf . He is unusual only in his emphasis on psychology , the impact of change on the human subject — again ...
... Smith's sf dramatizes the power , for good or ill , of innovation , a focus that links his stories to the traditions of popular sf . He is unusual only in his emphasis on psychology , the impact of change on the human subject — again ...
Page 164
... Smith's fiction - the sudden plot events ( Bloch's and Suvin's novums ... sf immerses both characters and readers in an irruptive , unstable macrocosm ... sf critics who privilege the plot - driven extrapolation of other postwar writers ...
... Smith's fiction - the sudden plot events ( Bloch's and Suvin's novums ... sf immerses both characters and readers in an irruptive , unstable macrocosm ... sf critics who privilege the plot - driven extrapolation of other postwar writers ...
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... sf , from Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End ( 1953 ) and Theodore Sturgeon's short stories to the early installments of Herbert's " Dune World " and the work of Robert A. Heinlein . Always , Smith speaks in opposition : even his early ...
... sf , from Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End ( 1953 ) and Theodore Sturgeon's short stories to the early installments of Herbert's " Dune World " and the work of Robert A. Heinlein . Always , Smith speaks in opposition : even his early ...
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