Science-fiction Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2SFS Publications, 2004 - Science fiction |
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Page 208
... plots . Suvin asks for a blow - by - blow analysis of the structure of those plots , that can measure their symmetries ... plot or a new idea every 800 words was originally proposed in a well - known essay by John Huntington , " Philip K ...
... plots . Suvin asks for a blow - by - blow analysis of the structure of those plots , that can measure their symmetries ... plot or a new idea every 800 words was originally proposed in a well - known essay by John Huntington , " Philip K ...
Page 213
... plot of Game- Players by charting the feeling of progressive bewilderment that takes hold of the reader . To do this , I will concentrate on the strategic joints of the plot , those crucial points that I propose to call subgenre ...
... plot of Game- Players by charting the feeling of progressive bewilderment that takes hold of the reader . To do this , I will concentrate on the strategic joints of the plot , those crucial points that I propose to call subgenre ...
Page 224
... plot and then the plot sort of folds up . So then I have to have another plot to finish the rest of the story " ( 224 ) . So we have Van Vogt's method in Dick's own words . What is interesting , however , is the idea of a discontinuity ...
... plot and then the plot sort of folds up . So then I have to have another plot to finish the rest of the story " ( 224 ) . So we have Van Vogt's method in Dick's own words . What is interesting , however , is the idea of a discontinuity ...
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