Science-fiction Studies, Volume 33, Issue 3SFS Publications, 2006 - Science fiction |
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Veronica Hollinger Stories about the Future : From Patterns of Expectation to Pattern Recognition The story goes like ... as a kind of future at which we've inadvertently arrived , one of the many futures imagined by science fiction .
Veronica Hollinger Stories about the Future : From Patterns of Expectation to Pattern Recognition The story goes like ... as a kind of future at which we've inadvertently arrived , one of the many futures imagined by science fiction .
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sense that the shape of things to come has already been determined , undermining in the process the “ morale and freedom necessary to create an open , " conditional future ” ( 33 ) . Geoff Ryman's recent Air ( or Have Not Have ) ( 2004 ) ...
sense that the shape of things to come has already been determined , undermining in the process the “ morale and freedom necessary to create an open , " conditional future ” ( 33 ) . Geoff Ryman's recent Air ( or Have Not Have ) ( 2004 ) ...
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long future of the human race . In a future history of radical divergence , it constructs a sense of continuity between ourselves— “ the first Men ” —and all the transformed generations that will have come after us .
long future of the human race . In a future history of radical divergence , it constructs a sense of continuity between ourselves— “ the first Men ” —and all the transformed generations that will have come after us .
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