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Page 122
... later work . The ironic , comic stories and the great " scientific romances " constitute a body of literature that , while intensely interested in the possibilities of civilization and issues of domination , is for the most part ...
... later work . The ironic , comic stories and the great " scientific romances " constitute a body of literature that , while intensely interested in the possibilities of civilization and issues of domination , is for the most part ...
Page 128
... Later writers will pick up the essential situation Wells has posed and develop it in further directions , but the deep structural contradiction cannot be mediated . Either , as in the case of Zamyatin's We ( 1924 ) , we commit ourselves ...
... Later writers will pick up the essential situation Wells has posed and develop it in further directions , but the deep structural contradiction cannot be mediated . Either , as in the case of Zamyatin's We ( 1924 ) , we commit ourselves ...
Page 274
... later works . Stapledon's non - fiction rests on his social theory and is limited to examples taken from the turmoil and torment of the Europe of two world wars . The later fiction , for all its excursions beyond the purely material ...
... later works . Stapledon's non - fiction rests on his social theory and is limited to examples taken from the turmoil and torment of the Europe of two world wars . The later fiction , for all its excursions beyond the purely material ...
Contents
SF in Mass Culture | 38 |
George Slusser Heinleins Perpetual Motion Fur Farm | 51 |
John Dean The Uses of Wilderness in American | 68 |
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