Science-fiction Studies, Volume 17SFS Publications., 1990 - Electronic journals |
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scientific imagination ” [ littérature d ' imagination scientifique ) . A comparison between this text and the enthusiastic positivism evident in some of Jules Verne's novels a generation earlier , for example , is very striking indeed ...
scientific imagination ” [ littérature d ' imagination scientifique ) . A comparison between this text and the enthusiastic positivism evident in some of Jules Verne's novels a generation earlier , for example , is very striking indeed ...
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Franklin's object is to “ locate and describe this history of the imagination from which has emerged our nemesis ” ( p . 4 ) , the superweapon . True to his Marxist roots , he argues that “ since culture itself both expresses and ...
Franklin's object is to “ locate and describe this history of the imagination from which has emerged our nemesis ” ( p . 4 ) , the superweapon . True to his Marxist roots , he argues that “ since culture itself both expresses and ...
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But in a reversal of the reversal , this aspect of the visitor is not real but merely the product of the narrator's imagination , of her desperate need for some kind of story to tell herself , a story in which she has adventures and can ...
But in a reversal of the reversal , this aspect of the visitor is not real but merely the product of the narrator's imagination , of her desperate need for some kind of story to tell herself , a story in which she has adventures and can ...
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Contents
Glenn Grant Transcendence Through Detournement | 41 |
Ivan Adamovič Czech SF in the Last Forty Years | 50 |
NOTES | 57 |
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