Science-fiction Studies, Volume 33, Issue 3SFS Publications, 2006 - Science fiction |
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Page 461
... event — and then breaks off as if unable to envisage what comes next ; the event horizon looms too closely and smothers the futuristic imagination . At the end of Neuromancer , his earliest novel , for example , it is the unprecedented ...
... event — and then breaks off as if unable to envisage what comes next ; the event horizon looms too closely and smothers the futuristic imagination . At the end of Neuromancer , his earliest novel , for example , it is the unprecedented ...
Page 462
... event horizon of the technological imagination : " It is only by virtue of the infinite liberty of the imagined future that a writer is able to range at will , unconstrained and godlike in his capacity to create new worlds in his own ...
... event horizon of the technological imagination : " It is only by virtue of the infinite liberty of the imagined future that a writer is able to range at will , unconstrained and godlike in his capacity to create new worlds in his own ...
Page 473
... event and the representation of the event collapse dangerously into each other , and the same thing happens with subsequent events and their representations . The event is intended as a representation , and we experience the event as ...
... event and the representation of the event collapse dangerously into each other , and the same thing happens with subsequent events and their representations . The event is intended as a representation , and we experience the event as ...
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