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Page 166
... tradition most hostile to the rediscovery of Cordwainer Smith is probably its expectation of logical extrapolation — full exposition of plot premises and a consequent tidy closure or suture of the various narrative threads . The traditions ...
... tradition most hostile to the rediscovery of Cordwainer Smith is probably its expectation of logical extrapolation — full exposition of plot premises and a consequent tidy closure or suture of the various narrative threads . The traditions ...
Page 200
... tradition and also the tidy closure of Campbellian hard sf . During the 1950s and 1960s , his enigmatic stories redrew the boundaries ( and re - stocked the visionary imagery ) of science fiction . David Galef Tiptree and the Problem of ...
... tradition and also the tidy closure of Campbellian hard sf . During the 1950s and 1960s , his enigmatic stories redrew the boundaries ( and re - stocked the visionary imagery ) of science fiction . David Galef Tiptree and the Problem of ...
Page 322
... tradition " ; and the readings of individual sf novels " are of a high intellectual quality . " One need not question the sincerity of such compliments , however , in order to see that they function , rhetorically , as feints , whose ...
... tradition " ; and the readings of individual sf novels " are of a high intellectual quality . " One need not question the sincerity of such compliments , however , in order to see that they function , rhetorically , as feints , whose ...
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Postcolonialism | 201 |
Complexity Theory in | 223 |
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