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... kind of nostalgic : the ironic nostalgic , who fetishizes the past even as s / he wraps and seals it in a kind of postmodern kitsch . The ironic nostalgic knows that the future never happened . William Gibson's " The Gernsback Continuum ...
... kind of nostalgic : the ironic nostalgic , who fetishizes the past even as s / he wraps and seals it in a kind of postmodern kitsch . The ironic nostalgic knows that the future never happened . William Gibson's " The Gernsback Continuum ...
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... kind of parallel . In The Wild Shore , the ruined freeways are being rehabilitated as part of rebuilding a transportation and communications infrastructure . In The Gold Coast , they reflect the wired - up society that is responsible ...
... kind of parallel . In The Wild Shore , the ruined freeways are being rehabilitated as part of rebuilding a transportation and communications infrastructure . In The Gold Coast , they reflect the wired - up society that is responsible ...
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... kind of Pony Express and a telegraph wire — a kind of information highway — cannibalized out of old copper wires . David Brin's The Postman ( 1985 ) similarly suggests that communications technology — in this case , the US Postal ...
... kind of Pony Express and a telegraph wire — a kind of information highway — cannibalized out of old copper wires . David Brin's The Postman ( 1985 ) similarly suggests that communications technology — in this case , the US Postal ...
Contents
Rob Latham Sextrapolation in New Wave Science Fiction | 251 |
Nostalgia and the Ruins | 275 |
Amy J Ransom Oppositional Postcolonialism in Québécois | 291 |
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