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... attempt to improve the human condition . By the mid- 1980s gene technologies were regularly appearing in sf stories , such as Greg Bear's Blood Music ( 1985 ) and Octavia Butler's XENOGENESIS trilogy ( 1987 , 1988 , 1989 ) , and by the ...
... attempt to improve the human condition . By the mid- 1980s gene technologies were regularly appearing in sf stories , such as Greg Bear's Blood Music ( 1985 ) and Octavia Butler's XENOGENESIS trilogy ( 1987 , 1988 , 1989 ) , and by the ...
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... attempt fails : he is deceived by a cabdriver , waits to buy a bus ticket on a line that never moves , and is eventually apprehended , drugged , and taken home by force . In the midst of this escape attempt , however , the people most ...
... attempt fails : he is deceived by a cabdriver , waits to buy a bus ticket on a line that never moves , and is eventually apprehended , drugged , and taken home by force . In the midst of this escape attempt , however , the people most ...
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... attempts to offer a critical survey of the genre in the wake of cyberpunk , and Swanwick's division of the field into two ... attempt to dismiss " User's Guide " as a " harmless little bit of fluff " ( 4 ) unworthy of such attacks is ...
... attempts to offer a critical survey of the genre in the wake of cyberpunk , and Swanwick's division of the field into two ... attempt to dismiss " User's Guide " as a " harmless little bit of fluff " ( 4 ) unworthy of such attacks is ...
Contents
ARTICLES | 193 |
Kenneth Krabbenhoft Uses of Madness in Cervantes | 216 |
ii | 217 |
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