Science-fiction Studies, Volume 33, Issue 3SFS Publications, 2006 - Science fiction |
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For sf specifically and especially for alternative history , Bennett identifies a special class of subjunctive conditionals called “ backward subjunctive conditionals ” ( 273ff . ) , which speculate on past conditions that must have ...
For sf specifically and especially for alternative history , Bennett identifies a special class of subjunctive conditionals called “ backward subjunctive conditionals ” ( 273ff . ) , which speculate on past conditions that must have ...
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Because the factual opens a metaleptic chain of counterfactual alternatives , historical discourse cannot be said to produce ... As We Know It . Duncan claimed the crux of alternative history is that it alters the past “ as we know it .
Because the factual opens a metaleptic chain of counterfactual alternatives , historical discourse cannot be said to produce ... As We Know It . Duncan claimed the crux of alternative history is that it alters the past “ as we know it .
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Pattern Recognition is about the present , which is to say it is alternative history , by which we mean nothing more than that it is literature . This is the curiously ambivalent purpose - simultaneously mundane and profound , narrow ...
Pattern Recognition is about the present , which is to say it is alternative history , by which we mean nothing more than that it is literature . This is the curiously ambivalent purpose - simultaneously mundane and profound , narrow ...
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