Science-fiction Studies, Volume 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Electronic journals |
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Page 213
... utopia is imagined concretely , as it must be in fictional form , the price it exacts for its improvements in the human situation becomes clear . Thus all utopias , however ideally intended , have something repellent about them , and ...
... utopia is imagined concretely , as it must be in fictional form , the price it exacts for its improvements in the human situation becomes clear . Thus all utopias , however ideally intended , have something repellent about them , and ...
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... utopia may thus be seen as existing in opposition to the author's own society , to other utopias , and ( again ) to an implicit notion of human possibilities . New Crete may also be seen as both a reproduction and an idealization of ...
... utopia may thus be seen as existing in opposition to the author's own society , to other utopias , and ( again ) to an implicit notion of human possibilities . New Crete may also be seen as both a reproduction and an idealization of ...
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... Utopia ( Chicago : University of Chicago , 1970 ) devotes a few pages to Graves , arguing that Graves's apocalyptic ending is an arbitrary response to the " formal and experiential limitations of utopia " ( p . 117 ) ; in what follows I ...
... Utopia ( Chicago : University of Chicago , 1970 ) devotes a few pages to Graves , arguing that Graves's apocalyptic ending is an arbitrary response to the " formal and experiential limitations of utopia " ( p . 117 ) ; in what follows I ...
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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