Science-fiction Studies, Volume 9SFS Publications., 1982 - Electronic journals |
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... reader should traverse the blueprint , and the narration has constant trouble with balancing events and lectures . ( It follows from this that all uses of SF as prophecy , futurology , program , or anything else claiming ontological ...
... reader should traverse the blueprint , and the narration has constant trouble with balancing events and lectures . ( It follows from this that all uses of SF as prophecy , futurology , program , or anything else claiming ontological ...
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reader would understand the image in the way that Blish decoded it - the word “ truncated " would seem to be suggested by the head and shoulders of Chexta - and Pohl was right to be bothered by the matter . But the sentence clearly ...
reader would understand the image in the way that Blish decoded it - the word “ truncated " would seem to be suggested by the head and shoulders of Chexta - and Pohl was right to be bothered by the matter . But the sentence clearly ...
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... reader to wallow in these depicted fears of annihilation and decay , as the very language of his narrator indicates : " Reader , we have followed the sorry tale through to its end . We have seen one of the two great streams of history ...
... reader to wallow in these depicted fears of annihilation and decay , as the very language of his narrator indicates : " Reader , we have followed the sorry tale through to its end . We have seen one of the two great streams of history ...
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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