Science-fiction Studies, Issues 29-31SFS Publications, 1983 - Science fiction |
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For many years I read SF hoping to find in that huge volume of SF works something interesting ; but I did not find anything ... What strikes me in reading your books is the humor which seems to undermine this moralistic tendency .
For many years I read SF hoping to find in that huge volume of SF works something interesting ; but I did not find anything ... What strikes me in reading your books is the humor which seems to undermine this moralistic tendency .
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But readerly competence must operate similarly in the more complex as in the simpler genres , a fact which suggests a series of questions we can profitably ask about SF : ( 1 ) What are the norms or expectations by which readers ...
But readerly competence must operate similarly in the more complex as in the simpler genres , a fact which suggests a series of questions we can profitably ask about SF : ( 1 ) What are the norms or expectations by which readers ...
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An obvious answer is that the converger's maintenance reading might well reinforce his rationalistic , orderly , analytic ... My thesis is that hard SF , among other things , serves this maintenance function for convergent readers .
An obvious answer is that the converger's maintenance reading might well reinforce his rationalistic , orderly , analytic ... My thesis is that hard SF , among other things , serves this maintenance function for convergent readers .
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