Science-fiction Studies, Volume 25, Part 3SFS Publications., 1998 - Science fiction |
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Page 483
... readers . While The Handmaid's Tale is often described as a frame narrative , in fact there is no analogue for the " Historical Notes " at the beginning of the text to signal to readers that Offred's narrative is unfolding within a ...
... readers . While The Handmaid's Tale is often described as a frame narrative , in fact there is no analogue for the " Historical Notes " at the beginning of the text to signal to readers that Offred's narrative is unfolding within a ...
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... science does not acknowledge " ( 56 ) . Characteristically , the sf tale presents the reader with supernatural data ( " robots , extraterrestrial beings , the whole interplanetary context " ) which is steadily naturalized , so that the ...
... science does not acknowledge " ( 56 ) . Characteristically , the sf tale presents the reader with supernatural data ( " robots , extraterrestrial beings , the whole interplanetary context " ) which is steadily naturalized , so that the ...
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... sf novels I listed above might all be called meta - sf , since they assume that their readers are so familiar with basic sf conventions that they will appreciate how their works deviate from those conventions . But the well - known ...
... sf novels I listed above might all be called meta - sf , since they assume that their readers are so familiar with basic sf conventions that they will appreciate how their works deviate from those conventions . But the well - known ...
Contents
IN MEMORIAM | 401 |
ARTICLES | 411 |
Donald Palumbo The Monomyth as Fractal Pattern in Frank | 433 |
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