Science-fiction Studies, Volume 20SFS Publications., 1993 - Electronic journals |
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... human and yet alien to themselves - in that their true being consists in the third life , after they have metamorphosed into tree form , when they " reach and drink from the sun , in the full light at last , never moving except in the ...
... human and yet alien to themselves - in that their true being consists in the third life , after they have metamorphosed into tree form , when they " reach and drink from the sun , in the full light at last , never moving except in the ...
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... human Martian " houri " that subverts one of the most common human frames of intelligibil- ity - the idea of romantic love . Card , Zelazny , and Lem , then , use the alien - encounter to probe the limits of human knowledge and ...
... human Martian " houri " that subverts one of the most common human frames of intelligibil- ity - the idea of romantic love . Card , Zelazny , and Lem , then , use the alien - encounter to probe the limits of human knowledge and ...
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... human or scientific paradigms . The anthropocentric alien may be more or less than human , but it is human nonetheless , and its humanity reflects back upon our own . In the extrapola- tive encounter we appropriate the alien , turning ...
... human or scientific paradigms . The anthropocentric alien may be more or less than human , but it is human nonetheless , and its humanity reflects back upon our own . In the extrapola- tive encounter we appropriate the alien , turning ...
Contents
Alien Encounters | 15 |
Roger Bozzetto Moreaus TragiFarcical Island | 34 |
Grace Rereading Lester del Reys Helen OLoy | 45 |
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