Science-fiction Studies, Volume 31, Issue 2SFS Publications, 2004 - Science fiction |
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Page 193
... short - term discomfort for long- term gain . Indeed , to make a charge of short - sightedness against a group with access to Eternity is an odd move at best . At bottom , though , Asimov does not reject Eternity because he objects to ...
... short - term discomfort for long- term gain . Indeed , to make a charge of short - sightedness against a group with access to Eternity is an odd move at best . At bottom , though , Asimov does not reject Eternity because he objects to ...
Page 213
... short - circuiting that places his work close to postmodernism , but surprisingly closer to that recent variety of postmodernism called Avant - Pop . " In order to understand what kind of textual short - circuit this is a device Dick ...
... short - circuiting that places his work close to postmodernism , but surprisingly closer to that recent variety of postmodernism called Avant - Pop . " In order to understand what kind of textual short - circuit this is a device Dick ...
Page 224
... short story " Waterspider " : " I start out with a 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 ...
... short story " Waterspider " : " I start out with a 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 ...
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