Science-fiction Studies, Volume 24, Part 1SFS Publications., 1997 - Science fiction |
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... never ahistorical . The respectful and positive attitude to alien cultures expressed in the liberal sf I read when I was growing up in the sixties , the fiction of Ursula Le Guin , James Tiptree , Arthur C. Clarke , Roger Zelazny ...
... never ahistorical . The respectful and positive attitude to alien cultures expressed in the liberal sf I read when I was growing up in the sixties , the fiction of Ursula Le Guin , James Tiptree , Arthur C. Clarke , Roger Zelazny ...
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... never have seen . Asimov took us on tours of lovely bizarre places : the devolved Solarian worlds , and weird sectors of Trantor . But we never saw a normal imperial world . We never saw the society that the robots designed for us that ...
... never have seen . Asimov took us on tours of lovely bizarre places : the devolved Solarian worlds , and weird sectors of Trantor . But we never saw a normal imperial world . We never saw the society that the robots designed for us that ...
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... never have that kind of social science ; we'll never have that predictive value . That's equivalent to a natural scientist leaving a time capsule saying , " It's April 15th in the year 2050 , so you've just had a record snowfall in New ...
... never have that kind of social science ; we'll never have that predictive value . That's equivalent to a natural scientist leaving a time capsule saying , " It's April 15th in the year 2050 , so you've just had a record snowfall in New ...
Contents
A Modest Proposal | 11 |
Greg Bear Gregory Benford and David Brin Building on Isaac | 17 |
F Clarke Before and After The Battle of Dorking | 33 |
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