Science-fiction Studies, Issues 29-31SFS Publications., 1983 - Science fiction |
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Page 95
... concerns yet another repressive society in a polluted world and the quest of a 16 - year - old girl culminating on a mountain where she discovers the true color of the sky ( succeeding volumes in this series do not qualify as SF ) ...
... concerns yet another repressive society in a polluted world and the quest of a 16 - year - old girl culminating on a mountain where she discovers the true color of the sky ( succeeding volumes in this series do not qualify as SF ) ...
Page 139
... concerns , retain a vital sense of classical precedent . In the notes to his Somnium ( 1609 , 1634 ) , an allegorical moon voyage written in defense of Copernican astronomy , Johann Kepler justifies his fictional techniques by placing ...
... concerns , retain a vital sense of classical precedent . In the notes to his Somnium ( 1609 , 1634 ) , an allegorical moon voyage written in defense of Copernican astronomy , Johann Kepler justifies his fictional techniques by placing ...
Page 349
... concerns of their culture and reflecting the kind of world they found themselves inhabiting . Their most distinctive themes were “ onto- logical insecurity , alienation , the hidden and hostile dimensions of media and machines , the ...
... concerns of their culture and reflecting the kind of world they found themselves inhabiting . Their most distinctive themes were “ onto- logical insecurity , alienation , the hidden and hostile dimensions of media and machines , the ...
Contents
ARTICLES | 7 |
James Gunn The Gatekeepers | 13 |
Martin Bridgstock A Psychological Approach to Hard | 50 |
Copyright | |
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