Science-fiction Studies, Volume 18, Issue 1SFS Publications, 1991 - Science fiction |
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... social and philosophical conclusions . The time had passed when an SF writer who dared to write about the cosmos would be accused of cos- mopolitanism , of being cut off from life , and of ideologically straying in interplanetary spaces ...
... social and philosophical conclusions . The time had passed when an SF writer who dared to write about the cosmos would be accused of cos- mopolitanism , of being cut off from life , and of ideologically straying in interplanetary spaces ...
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... social order may flower . But the phrase " a higher social order " in the Ballardian context means something quite different from what a social engineer or political scientist might imagine . In Ballard's transvaluation of utopian ...
... social order may flower . But the phrase " a higher social order " in the Ballardian context means something quite different from what a social engineer or political scientist might imagine . In Ballard's transvaluation of utopian ...
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... social / political leap of the imagination is often extremely timid . As a result , it is the relationships of the social present and near past that are valorized in the great bulk of genre SF , its dominant tenor being what Patrick ...
... social / political leap of the imagination is often extremely timid . As a result , it is the relationships of the social present and near past that are valorized in the great bulk of genre SF , its dominant tenor being what Patrick ...
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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