Science-fiction Studies, Volume 14SFS Publications., 1987 - Electronic journals |
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The past and future levels are merely reflections of present reality , not independent realities . The narrator of the imagined future ( and past ) events is Nabokov in the actual present , in 1951-52 . And the story occasionally breaks ...
The past and future levels are merely reflections of present reality , not independent realities . The narrator of the imagined future ( and past ) events is Nabokov in the actual present , in 1951-52 . And the story occasionally breaks ...
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I do not intend to argue that these four novels are superior to the rest of Brunner's work , or to claim that only dialogical and polyphonic novels can present strong didactic content in an aesthetically pleasing package .
I do not intend to argue that these four novels are superior to the rest of Brunner's work , or to claim that only dialogical and polyphonic novels can present strong didactic content in an aesthetically pleasing package .
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SF is supposed to imagine the future , but the future is now perceived as similar to the present or the past . We are now all living inside a postmodern environment , inside the cultural logic of late capitalism , ” as Jameson puts it .
SF is supposed to imagine the future , but the future is now perceived as similar to the present or the past . We are now all living inside a postmodern environment , inside the cultural logic of late capitalism , ” as Jameson puts it .
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Contents
runners Narrative Blending | 21 |
Florian F Marzin Science Fiction and Censorship | 60 |
INTERVIEW | 68 |
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