Science-fiction Studies, Volume 32, Issue 2SFS Publications, 2005 - Science fiction |
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Page 232
... Thing has the ability to imitate anything it digests and still retain its " original bulk " ( 76 ) ; thus , in addition to the original creature , an indefinite and undetectable number of dogs and expeditioners are in reality Things , a ...
... Thing has the ability to imitate anything it digests and still retain its " original bulk " ( 76 ) ; thus , in addition to the original creature , an indefinite and undetectable number of dogs and expeditioners are in reality Things , a ...
Page 233
... Thing at its center , can be fruitfully analyzed in terms of the abject . " The Thing is discovered under a disguising layer of snow and ice - what could be termed , using Kristeva's phrase , " the white expanse ... of repression ” ( 2 ) ...
... Thing at its center , can be fruitfully analyzed in terms of the abject . " The Thing is discovered under a disguising layer of snow and ice - what could be termed , using Kristeva's phrase , " the white expanse ... of repression ” ( 2 ) ...
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... things get worse before they get better , but " a new order ... a new species " ( 212 ) will emerge . Butler's infected humans are thus ultimately ideal nomadic subjects , so resistant to the grid of channelled desire and identity ...
... things get worse before they get better , but " a new order ... a new species " ( 212 ) will emerge . Butler's infected humans are thus ultimately ideal nomadic subjects , so resistant to the grid of channelled desire and identity ...
Contents
Carl Abbott Homesteading on the Extraterrestrial Frontier | 240 |
Butler LSD Lying Ink and Lies | 265 |
Animals Kinship and Butlers | 281 |
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