Science-fiction Studies, Volume 9SFS Publications., 1982 - Electronic journals |
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Page 151
... specific narrative apparatus , to its ostensible content - the future - has always been more complex than this . For the apparent realism , or representationality , of SF has concealed another , far more complex temporal structure : not ...
... specific narrative apparatus , to its ostensible content - the future - has always been more complex than this . For the apparent realism , or representationality , of SF has concealed another , far more complex temporal structure : not ...
Page 174
... specific position on his verbal map . True to his name , the prince of Utopia is without a place . And the market at the center of each district is also characterized by an absence : the absence of money ; the market is an empty space ...
... specific position on his verbal map . True to his name , the prince of Utopia is without a place . And the market at the center of each district is also characterized by an absence : the absence of money ; the market is an empty space ...
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... specific time codes " ) . Order in this maze is nominally imposed by the kind of decimal numbering so appealing to quasi - scientific critics , but even this soon yields sections with numbers like " 2.2.1.2.1 . , " which gave me , at ...
... specific time codes " ) . Order in this maze is nominally imposed by the kind of decimal numbering so appealing to quasi - scientific critics , but even this soon yields sections with numbers like " 2.2.1.2.1 . , " which gave me , at ...
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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