Science-fiction Studies, Volume 24, Part 1SFS Publications., 1997 - Science fiction |
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Page 73
... add that I shall not find it necessary in future to trouble the printer with any considerable alterations such as he will find in the present sheet & that which immediately preceded it ” ( Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1 : 565 ) .
... add that I shall not find it necessary in future to trouble the printer with any considerable alterations such as he will find in the present sheet & that which immediately preceded it ” ( Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley 1 : 565 ) .
Page 105
... the persuasive action of language on free subjects ( ditto ) , and the implicit judgment about one society set against the one in the present ( all such comparative judgments are supposedly rejected by unified postmodernism ) .
... the persuasive action of language on free subjects ( ditto ) , and the implicit judgment about one society set against the one in the present ( all such comparative judgments are supposedly rejected by unified postmodernism ) .
Page 186
When writers imagine other planets , time travel , alternate states and realities , they create possibilities for fictive futures , and simultaneously challenge the social identities available in the present and in the past .
When writers imagine other planets , time travel , alternate states and realities , they create possibilities for fictive futures , and simultaneously challenge the social identities available in the present and in the past .
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