Science-fiction Studies, Issues 29-31SFS Publications., 1983 - Science fiction |
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... scientific horror . " The inventor of the term science fiction , Hugo Gernsback , was the author of a well - known and silly novel , Ralph 124C41 + : A Romance of the Year 2660 , which , in 1911 , linked a strictly scientific look into ...
... scientific horror . " The inventor of the term science fiction , Hugo Gernsback , was the author of a well - known and silly novel , Ralph 124C41 + : A Romance of the Year 2660 , which , in 1911 , linked a strictly scientific look into ...
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... scientific " ( meaning " concerned with the effects of scientific principles , real or imaginary , on socie- ty , " not " true according to the science we know " ) , and “ fictional . " The text posits a novelty ( what Suvin calls the ...
... scientific " ( meaning " concerned with the effects of scientific principles , real or imaginary , on socie- ty , " not " true according to the science we know " ) , and “ fictional . " The text posits a novelty ( what Suvin calls the ...
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... scientific exuberance . Like other elements in " Hans Pfaall , " Poe's insistence on scientific plausibility repeats the general attitudes and specific narrative gestures of his precur- sors . His dismissal of earlier works as factually ...
... scientific exuberance . Like other elements in " Hans Pfaall , " Poe's insistence on scientific plausibility repeats the general attitudes and specific narrative gestures of his precur- sors . His dismissal of earlier works as factually ...
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ARTICLES | 7 |
James Gunn The Gatekeepers | 13 |
Martin Bridgstock A Psychological Approach to Hard | 50 |
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