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Page 97
... aliens ' essential indifference to ourselves . What I would like to affirm , though , returning to Benford's terrain and the matter of alien representation , is that what most deeply engages the SF reader in such texts is not particularly ...
... aliens ' essential indifference to ourselves . What I would like to affirm , though , returning to Benford's terrain and the matter of alien representation , is that what most deeply engages the SF reader in such texts is not particularly ...
Page 193
... alien time - frames and alien body - forms in order to express states of disconnection , self - estrang- ement , or incompleteness . At this period in her career , she is generally more intent on acknowledging these feelings than she is ...
... alien time - frames and alien body - forms in order to express states of disconnection , self - estrang- ement , or incompleteness . At this period in her career , she is generally more intent on acknowledging these feelings than she is ...
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by moving toward the Alien , the Other - and thereby embracing all that is most alien in one's self . This is clearly the premise of " The Milk of Paradise " ( 1972 ) , which features another androgynous protagonist , named Timor , a ...
by moving toward the Alien , the Other - and thereby embracing all that is most alien in one's self . This is clearly the premise of " The Milk of Paradise " ( 1972 ) , which features another androgynous protagonist , named Timor , a ...
Contents
Glenn Grant Transcendence Through Detournement | 41 |
Ivan Adamovič Czech SF in the Last Forty Years | 50 |
NOTES | 57 |
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