Science-fiction Studies, Issues 29-31SFS Publications., 1983 - Science fiction |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 38
Page 139
... moon voyage merely as a species of literary and historiographical criticism , but Plutarch's earlier symposium ( 1st century A.D. ) , On the Face Appearing within the Orb of the Moon , represents a more serious inquiry into the nature ...
... moon voyage merely as a species of literary and historiographical criticism , but Plutarch's earlier symposium ( 1st century A.D. ) , On the Face Appearing within the Orb of the Moon , represents a more serious inquiry into the nature ...
Page 140
... Moon should be habitable , " announces his preface , " [ b ] ut the knowledge of this may seem more properly reserved for this our discovering age : In which our Galilaeuses , can by advantage of their spectacles , gaze the Sun into ...
... Moon should be habitable , " announces his preface , " [ b ] ut the knowledge of this may seem more properly reserved for this our discovering age : In which our Galilaeuses , can by advantage of their spectacles , gaze the Sun into ...
Page 141
... Moon : I still fell with horrible rapidity , and was now not more than a mile from the surface . As a last resource , therefore , having got rid of my coat , hat , and boots , I cut loose from the balloon the car itself , which was of ...
... Moon : I still fell with horrible rapidity , and was now not more than a mile from the surface . As a last resource , therefore , having got rid of my coat , hat , and boots , I cut loose from the balloon the car itself , which was of ...
Contents
ARTICLES | 7 |
James Gunn The Gatekeepers | 13 |
Martin Bridgstock A Psychological Approach to Hard | 50 |
Copyright | |
6 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
alien Alternative History American appears attempt become Berkeley Bester's Blish Buero CALIFORNIA LIBRARY century Chance characters concept context create critical culture Darko Suvin David Ketterer Dick's dream Earth editors essay Estraven existence fact fantasy Federman female Foyle Frankenstein future Genly genre Guin human ideology illustration imagination interpretation James Blish language literary literature lost-race utopia machine magazine Mary Shelley means mind monster Moon Motherlines myth narrative nature novel pantropy Pfaall Philip K planet Poe's political possible present problems published pulp magazines rational reader reading reality reference Roadside Picnic satire Science Fiction Science-Fiction scientific Seedling Stars seems sense serials sexual SF film SF writer significant social society space speech acts Spock Stanislaw Lem Star Trek Stars My Destination story Suvin tale theme theory things Torrent of Faces tradition UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA utopia utopist vision voyage women