Science-fiction Studies, Volume 18, Issue 1SFS Publications, 1991 - Science fiction |
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Piecemeal analyses thus decry " packagers ” for having corrupted the genre and stolen shelf - space from more original work ; chain bookstores for their surveillance over the sales records of the work of both writers and editors ...
Piecemeal analyses thus decry " packagers ” for having corrupted the genre and stolen shelf - space from more original work ; chain bookstores for their surveillance over the sales records of the work of both writers and editors ...
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While Clarke's scientism is liberal in its expression and is often leavened by a countervailing mysticism , his position is still common among writers in the genre . It is axiomatic that while the conceptual breakthrough in science and ...
While Clarke's scientism is liberal in its expression and is often leavened by a countervailing mysticism , his position is still common among writers in the genre . It is axiomatic that while the conceptual breakthrough in science and ...
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However , I would argue that the insights and the sociopolitical alternatives that are generated in optimal SF are not completely missed by the less than “ ideal ” reader of the genre . They often become part of the material which ...
However , I would argue that the insights and the sociopolitical alternatives that are generated in optimal SF are not completely missed by the less than “ ideal ” reader of the genre . They often become part of the material which ...
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Contents
Can Science Fiction | 11 |
W Warren Wagar J G Ballard and the Transvaluation of Utopia | 53 |
Philmus The Two Faces of Philip K Dick | 91 |
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