Science-fiction Studies, Volume 14SFS Publications., 1987 - Electronic journals |
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Page 69
... ideas ; in fact , we borrow so generously that there's no way of telling whose idea it was originally . For instance , in my novel The Caves of Steel , it was very important to the plot to have moving sidewalks , with an elaborate ...
... ideas ; in fact , we borrow so generously that there's no way of telling whose idea it was originally . For instance , in my novel The Caves of Steel , it was very important to the plot to have moving sidewalks , with an elaborate ...
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... idea of time travel has for many years exercised the ingenuity not only of SF writers , but of scientists and philosophers as well ; neither the equations of quantum physics nor the rules of logic have managed definitively to prove or ...
... idea of time travel has for many years exercised the ingenuity not only of SF writers , but of scientists and philosophers as well ; neither the equations of quantum physics nor the rules of logic have managed definitively to prove or ...
Page 403
... idea of the " mission civilisatrice " of Western Europe ( here France in particular ) , Martin readily condemns this train of thought as a sham . To see the idea as a hoax by means of which Western capitalism could justify itself in ...
... idea of the " mission civilisatrice " of Western Europe ( here France in particular ) , Martin readily condemns this train of thought as a sham . To see the idea as a hoax by means of which Western capitalism could justify itself in ...
Contents
runners Narrative Blending | 21 |
Florian F Marzin Science Fiction and Censorship | 60 |
INTERVIEW | 68 |
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