Science-fiction Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2SFS Publications, 2004 - Science fiction |
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Page 182
... nature . Human habitation of Mars only becomes a necessity because the natural word has been depleted of its resources ( reminding us of the greenhouse drifting through space in the film Silent Running [ 1972 ] ) . Even with this lesson ...
... nature . Human habitation of Mars only becomes a necessity because the natural word has been depleted of its resources ( reminding us of the greenhouse drifting through space in the film Silent Running [ 1972 ] ) . Even with this lesson ...
Page 183
... nature you mean wilderness . Even that is always around us , just outside the edges of the last development in any town . We are nature , we are immersed in nature : we never get out of it , we can sit in boxes and look at boxes , be ...
... nature you mean wilderness . Even that is always around us , just outside the edges of the last development in any town . We are nature , we are immersed in nature : we never get out of it , we can sit in boxes and look at boxes , be ...
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... nature ' was to earlier times " ( 64 ) . The scare - quotes consistently placed around nature are significant , for they suggest that the truly natural has been so thoroughly eliminated from the contemporary environment that the concept ...
... nature ' was to earlier times " ( 64 ) . The scare - quotes consistently placed around nature are significant , for they suggest that the truly natural has been so thoroughly eliminated from the contemporary environment that the concept ...
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