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The new tools are the ultimate expression of human control - helping us shape and define the way we would like to be and the way we would like the rest of living nature to be . Biotechnologies are “ dream tools , ” giving us the power ...
The new tools are the ultimate expression of human control - helping us shape and define the way we would like to be and the way we would like the rest of living nature to be . Biotechnologies are “ dream tools , ” giving us the power ...
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Dick drives home the complexity of this interplay of sanity and madness by playing with the meaning of the word “ lunatic . ' In the literal sense of someone living a delusion , it describes Ragle Gumm , stuck " in the 1959 reality .
Dick drives home the complexity of this interplay of sanity and madness by playing with the meaning of the word “ lunatic . ' In the literal sense of someone living a delusion , it describes Ragle Gumm , stuck " in the 1959 reality .
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In Ubik ( 1969 ) -one of Dick's most imaginative novels — there comes a point where the semi - defunct characters living their strange half - lives realize that they survive only by doing harm to the fully living .
In Ubik ( 1969 ) -one of Dick's most imaginative novels — there comes a point where the semi - defunct characters living their strange half - lives realize that they survive only by doing harm to the fully living .
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Contents
Kenneth Krabbenhoft Uses of Madness in Cervantes | 216 |
Amanda Fernbach The Fetishization of Masculinity in Science | 234 |
Vonda N McIntyres | 256 |
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