Science-fiction Studies, Volume 18, Issue 1SFS Publications, 1991 - Science fiction |
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The hero , Sanders , has not yet escaped when the novel ends , but his wife Suzanne and the army doctor Radek and a group of lepers have . As Sanders heads up river , back into the forest , we know he will be next .
The hero , Sanders , has not yet escaped when the novel ends , but his wife Suzanne and the army doctor Radek and a group of lepers have . As Sanders heads up river , back into the forest , we know he will be next .
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Another kind of protagonist in Malzberg's fiction is the imitation hero . Quir , of In the Enclosure ( 1973 ) , thinks of himself as a hero . He admires his own sexual prowess and considers himself physically and mentally above his ...
Another kind of protagonist in Malzberg's fiction is the imitation hero . Quir , of In the Enclosure ( 1973 ) , thinks of himself as a hero . He admires his own sexual prowess and considers himself physically and mentally above his ...
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In Romance , the hero must subdue his psychic bugbears in order to earn his status as hero . Yet rarely does the hero of the narration recognize that these externals are symbolic of his own mind ; rather , the details stay symbolic in ...
In Romance , the hero must subdue his psychic bugbears in order to earn his status as hero . Yet rarely does the hero of the narration recognize that these externals are symbolic of his own mind ; rather , the details stay symbolic in ...
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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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