Science-fiction Studies, Volume 4SFS Publications., 1977 - Science fiction |
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Page 83
... existence , with one result being that on the influence of The Coming Race he can say only that it depicts " a social and political structure that prefigures those of many more recent utopian satires " ( p 179 ) and that it " apparently ...
... existence , with one result being that on the influence of The Coming Race he can say only that it depicts " a social and political structure that prefigures those of many more recent utopian satires " ( p 179 ) and that it " apparently ...
Page 119
... existence and cognition , Lem nevertheless treats his heroes with compassion : he accepts their human fallibility and limitation , and even turns it into a kind of " cheval de bataille " or vehicle on which man conquers the cosmos ...
... existence and cognition , Lem nevertheless treats his heroes with compassion : he accepts their human fallibility and limitation , and even turns it into a kind of " cheval de bataille " or vehicle on which man conquers the cosmos ...
Page 165
... existence . " Quite naturally , then , given this Weltanschau- ung , the Harlequin is captured and repents : So they sent him to Coventry . And in Coventry they worked him over .... and one day quite a long time later , the Harlequin ...
... existence . " Quite naturally , then , given this Weltanschau- ung , the Harlequin is captured and repents : So they sent him to Coventry . And in Coventry they worked him over .... and one day quite a long time later , the Harlequin ...
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