Science-fiction Studies, Volume 33, Issue 3SFS Publications, 2006 - Science fiction |
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merely played a few creative variations - and not so many , at that ” ( “ Not Taking ” 8 ) , he says by way of explaining why he finds the term mainstream “ offensive . ” Nevil Shute's books , for instance , were “ really of what ...
merely played a few creative variations - and not so many , at that ” ( “ Not Taking ” 8 ) , he says by way of explaining why he finds the term mainstream “ offensive . ” Nevil Shute's books , for instance , were “ really of what ...
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FTL , psi , alternative worlds , and so forth are things we depend upon our readers to understand , just as a mainstream author depends upon his readers to understand the basic furnishings of a city street without having to ...
FTL , psi , alternative worlds , and so forth are things we depend upon our readers to understand , just as a mainstream author depends upon his readers to understand the basic furnishings of a city street without having to ...
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But whatever benefits flowed from his work , George Turner was actually antagonistic towards the genre . He certainly judged it by one standard and one standard only : how it stacked up against the realist literature of the mainstream .
But whatever benefits flowed from his work , George Turner was actually antagonistic towards the genre . He certainly judged it by one standard and one standard only : how it stacked up against the realist literature of the mainstream .
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