Science-fiction Studies, Volume 11

alien American appears become beginning body called chapter characters communication complex concern critical culture described early Earth effects essay example existence experience expression fact fantasy final future genre give hand human idea imagination important individual interest issue John kind language Last less limits Linebarger literary literature living machines Martians matter means mind narrative narrator nature never notes novel original Paul perhaps political possible present problem produced published question reader reading reality reference relation result Science Fiction seems sense short signifier social society space Stapledon Star story structure suggest theme things thought tion traditional turn University utopian values vision volume Wells's writers