Science-fiction Studies, Volume 13SFS Publications., 1986 - Electronic journals |
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The mere idea that the present might produce a scientifically adventurous and morally good society seemed the stuff of ideological fantasy . ... The displaced present is represented by the aboriginal villagers of the great Forest .
The mere idea that the present might produce a scientifically adventurous and morally good society seemed the stuff of ideological fantasy . ... The displaced present is represented by the aboriginal villagers of the great Forest .
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The displaced present is the Kafkaesque Forest Study and Exploitation Authority , “ The Directorate , " a maze of bureaucratic absurdities just as inscrutable as the bizarre natural phenomena of the Forest it is supposed to study .
The displaced present is the Kafkaesque Forest Study and Exploitation Authority , “ The Directorate , " a maze of bureaucratic absurdities just as inscrutable as the bizarre natural phenomena of the Forest it is supposed to study .
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The main protagonist of Swans , Banev , is explicit : in a table speech to his drunken cohorts , he ironically exhorts them to help prevent the future from extending its feelers into the present " ( Swans 2 : 23-24 ) .
The main protagonist of Swans , Banev , is explicit : in a table speech to his drunken cohorts , he ironically exhorts them to help prevent the future from extending its feelers into the present " ( Swans 2 : 23-24 ) .
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