Science-fiction Studies, Volume 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Electronic journals |
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Page 148
... hero of the story ; this is William Tenn's " Child's Play " ( 1947 ) . In Damon Knight's " Thing of Beauty " ( 1958 ) there is a different parcel - an automaton that draws pictures by itself . In general , strange things are produced in ...
... hero of the story ; this is William Tenn's " Child's Play " ( 1947 ) . In Damon Knight's " Thing of Beauty " ( 1958 ) there is a different parcel - an automaton that draws pictures by itself . In general , strange things are produced in ...
Page 291
... hero begins to suspect that this state may not be exactly what he had hoped for : 713 informs him that all citizens of Atlantis must carry a " verbometer , " a device ensuring that no citizen excedes his daily word - quota . Physicians ...
... hero begins to suspect that this state may not be exactly what he had hoped for : 713 informs him that all citizens of Atlantis must carry a " verbometer , " a device ensuring that no citizen excedes his daily word - quota . Physicians ...
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... hero is introduced around on Mars as " Lieutenant Hamilton of the Navy of the United States of America , the greatest Republic on the Terres- trial Globe , " and one of the high points of his tour of Mars occurs during a " magnificent ...
... hero is introduced around on Mars as " Lieutenant Hamilton of the Navy of the United States of America , the greatest Republic on the Terres- trial Globe , " and one of the high points of his tour of Mars occurs during a " magnificent ...
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Aldiss alien appear arabesque Athsheans Atlantis become Blish Borges CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ Cavorite Childhood's End Clarke Clarke's cosmic criticism CRUZ The University culture Darko Suvin doppelgänger dream dystopia Earth Edgar Allan Poe edition English essay existence fantasy film Franz Rottensteiner future genre grotesque Heinlein hero human idea ideological imagination interest James Blish Jules Verne kind literary literature Machine man's Marxism means modern Moon Moskowitz myth narrative narrator nature novel Olaf Stapledon Ostara Overlords Overmind paradox perhaps planet Poe's political popular possible present problem published reader reality revolution Robert robots Sam Moskowitz satire Science Fiction scientific seems sense SF writers social society space Stanislaw Lem Stapledon story structure tale technological theme theory things Tlön Todorov tradition transcendent University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA Ursula K utopia Verne Verne's vision Wells's Zamyatin