Science-fiction Studies, Volume 18, Issue 1SFS Publications, 1991 - Science fiction |
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But in other interviews , he has described its attainment as psychic “ transformation " or " fulfillment . ... novels — both the earlier ones and those with present - day urban settings — are “ stories of huge psychic transformations .
But in other interviews , he has described its attainment as psychic “ transformation " or " fulfillment . ... novels — both the earlier ones and those with present - day urban settings — are “ stories of huge psychic transformations .
Page 58
But most of the major works are epics of transformation . ... exhibiting the irreducible minima of utopian speculation : the achievement of a radically better world , a transformed landscape in which a higher social order may flower .
But most of the major works are epics of transformation . ... exhibiting the irreducible minima of utopian speculation : the achievement of a radically better world , a transformed landscape in which a higher social order may flower .
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The change from ordinary person to hero connotes a transformation of humanity into a new and better humabuty . This transformation would not happen in a story such as Ellison's , where the triumph is too limited and the denouement too ...
The change from ordinary person to hero connotes a transformation of humanity into a new and better humabuty . This transformation would not happen in a story such as Ellison's , where the triumph is too limited and the denouement too ...
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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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