Science-fiction Studies, Volume 33, Issue 3SFS Publications, 2006 - Science fiction |
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Page 445
... actually say much that is essentially different . When Lem asks , for instance , why sf can't get rid of the trash for good , Turner replies : " Lem knows the answer as well as you and I do . While there is a market for rubbish - and ...
... actually say much that is essentially different . When Lem asks , for instance , why sf can't get rid of the trash for good , Turner replies : " Lem knows the answer as well as you and I do . While there is a market for rubbish - and ...
Page 474
... actually happened , rather than being brought about for us by way of some imagined sf novum . I am assuming in this essay that the novel recalls the reader's own experience of this effect , but time and experience are defamiliarized in ...
... actually happened , rather than being brought about for us by way of some imagined sf novum . I am assuming in this essay that the novel recalls the reader's own experience of this effect , but time and experience are defamiliarized in ...
Page 488
... actually false ( " if the Nazis had won World War Two , then [ any arbitrary q follows ] " ) . That sentence is a historical counterfactual . But since literature is already a subjunctive conditional , and already actually false ...
... actually false ( " if the Nazis had won World War Two , then [ any arbitrary q follows ] " ) . That sentence is a historical counterfactual . But since literature is already a subjunctive conditional , and already actually false ...
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