Science-fiction Studies, Volume 20SFS Publications., 1993 - Electronic journals |
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... experience " and that " no alien should leave home without it " ( " Effing " 16 ) , but Clarke's passage falls short of triggering it . The passage so emphasizes the human response ( as opposed to the alien stimulus ) that it risks ...
... experience " and that " no alien should leave home without it " ( " Effing " 16 ) , but Clarke's passage falls short of triggering it . The passage so emphasizes the human response ( as opposed to the alien stimulus ) that it risks ...
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... experience a Borgesian world as a construct , as with VR . We can only see the horror of our own ephemerality with new eyes . With Lem , this is less so , because once on the rational carousel , we find our neat , reasonable worlds ...
... experience a Borgesian world as a construct , as with VR . We can only see the horror of our own ephemerality with new eyes . With Lem , this is less so , because once on the rational carousel , we find our neat , reasonable worlds ...
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... experience , but it isn't the kind of literary experience we have been taught to appreciate . What befalls Soother is a terrifying event , rather than a metaphor , and the feelings it evokes are those of a literal event . Cognition , as ...
... experience , but it isn't the kind of literary experience we have been taught to appreciate . What befalls Soother is a terrifying event , rather than a metaphor , and the feelings it evokes are those of a literal event . Cognition , as ...
Contents
Alien Encounters | 15 |
Roger Bozzetto Moreaus TragiFarcical Island | 34 |
Grace Rereading Lester del Reys Helen OLoy | 45 |
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