Science-fiction Studies, Volume 33, Issue 3SFS Publications, 2006 - Science fiction |
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... idea that science fiction must be rigidly realistic actually gets in the way of presenting something impossible ... ideas must hold up under scrutiny . If they do not , the work is no longer SF but fantasy or daydream , and loses ...
... idea that science fiction must be rigidly realistic actually gets in the way of presenting something impossible ... ideas must hold up under scrutiny . If they do not , the work is no longer SF but fantasy or daydream , and loses ...
Page 503
... Ideas . Vol.5 . Ed . Maryanne Horowitz et al . Detroit : Scribner's , 2005. 1896-99 . Iggers , George G. " Historicism . " The Dictionary of the History of Ideas . Vol . 2. Ed . Philip P. Wiener et al . New York : Scribner's 1973. 456 ...
... Ideas . Vol.5 . Ed . Maryanne Horowitz et al . Detroit : Scribner's , 2005. 1896-99 . Iggers , George G. " Historicism . " The Dictionary of the History of Ideas . Vol . 2. Ed . Philip P. Wiener et al . New York : Scribner's 1973. 456 ...
Page 547
... ideas and rework their own ; texts deconstruct themselves . That is the nature of the genre , according to Philmus ; his examples indicate that re - vision is not just an occasional by - product of storytelling but the heart of science ...
... ideas and rework their own ; texts deconstruct themselves . That is the nature of the genre , according to Philmus ; his examples indicate that re - vision is not just an occasional by - product of storytelling but the heart of science ...
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