Science-fiction Studies, Volume 17SFS Publications., 1990 - Electronic journals |
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Apparently , it is one thing to use your violent nature for personal gain , as a freelance street - samurai , but something else to turn it to political ends , in the service of Orwellian governments . Better to jump out of that system ...
Apparently , it is one thing to use your violent nature for personal gain , as a freelance street - samurai , but something else to turn it to political ends , in the service of Orwellian governments . Better to jump out of that system ...
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A “ time flurry ” brings the violence of the past into the present , and Cory is assassinated by the last descendant of her victims , Vovoka , who in turn commits suicide . As she dies , Cory is granted a final vision in which she sees ...
A “ time flurry ” brings the violence of the past into the present , and Cory is assassinated by the last descendant of her victims , Vovoka , who in turn commits suicide . As she dies , Cory is granted a final vision in which she sees ...
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6.3 “ Backward , Turn Backward , " which appeared posthumously in Crown of Stars ( CS , 1988 ) , is a much darker version of this death - by - fire . It is perhaps the most painful of all of Sheldon's pain - filled stories to read ...
6.3 “ Backward , Turn Backward , " which appeared posthumously in Crown of Stars ( CS , 1988 ) , is a much darker version of this death - by - fire . It is perhaps the most painful of all of Sheldon's pain - filled stories to read ...
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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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