Science-fiction Studies, Volume 1SFS Publications., 1973 - Electronic journals |
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Page 78
... whole domain of modern literature is somewhat depressing . Mainstream writing tells us all about practically nothing , and SF tells us practically nothing about all . The mainstream bores us with everyday trivia as seen through a ...
... whole domain of modern literature is somewhat depressing . Mainstream writing tells us all about practically nothing , and SF tells us practically nothing about all . The mainstream bores us with everyday trivia as seen through a ...
Page 152
... whole SF reper- toire . For a world truly new in structural qualities is one in which the causal irreversibility of occurrences is denied , or one in which a person's individ- uality conflicts with an individual scientifically produced ...
... whole SF reper- toire . For a world truly new in structural qualities is one in which the causal irreversibility of occurrences is denied , or one in which a person's individ- uality conflicts with an individual scientifically produced ...
Page 298
... whole confused history of our species , and comes to its crisis to - day " ( SP ) . Although the narrator draws on the re- ports of other Neptunian investigators of the world of the First Men ( including some who follow the ancestry of ...
... whole confused history of our species , and comes to its crisis to - day " ( SP ) . Although the narrator draws on the re- ports of other Neptunian investigators of the world of the First Men ( including some who follow the ancestry of ...
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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