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Page 54
... natural : it can be changed . Many SF cityscapes and uto- pias seem to me to participate in this curious paradox : that what signals the constructed , invented , artificial nature of SF as a genre - the palpable fact that an author has ...
... natural : it can be changed . Many SF cityscapes and uto- pias seem to me to participate in this curious paradox : that what signals the constructed , invented , artificial nature of SF as a genre - the palpable fact that an author has ...
Page 71
... nature , not because they want to make a point but because they don't know what the laws of nature are . This always shows , and it makes the SF inferior . Wolf : Sometimes it's hard to be certain exactly what the law of nature is ...
... nature , not because they want to make a point but because they don't know what the laws of nature are . This always shows , and it makes the SF inferior . Wolf : Sometimes it's hard to be certain exactly what the law of nature is ...
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... nature unknown to modern science or on a supernatural characteristic of the protagonist as in J.A. Zajdel's " Prognozja , " Olaf Stapledon's Odd John , or Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land ) . Narratives devoid of fantastic ...
... nature unknown to modern science or on a supernatural characteristic of the protagonist as in J.A. Zajdel's " Prognozja , " Olaf Stapledon's Odd John , or Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land ) . Narratives devoid of fantastic ...
Contents
runners Narrative Blending | 21 |
Florian F Marzin Science Fiction and Censorship | 60 |
INTERVIEW | 68 |
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