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John Dean The Uses of Wilderness in American Science Fiction I had come into the wilderness of space . Ever the vacant blackness grew broader , until the hosts of the stars seemed only like a swarm of fiery sparks hurrying away from me ...
John Dean The Uses of Wilderness in American Science Fiction I had come into the wilderness of space . Ever the vacant blackness grew broader , until the hosts of the stars seemed only like a swarm of fiery sparks hurrying away from me ...
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... wilderness has gone ? The highly Americanized , modern form of SF preserves American ideals of wilderness . SF can nicely accomplish this feat because it can rewrite history : it builds stories on the basis of altered , hypothetical ...
... wilderness has gone ? The highly Americanized , modern form of SF preserves American ideals of wilderness . SF can nicely accomplish this feat because it can rewrite history : it builds stories on the basis of altered , hypothetical ...
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Wilderness is not pastoral . They are radically different visions of nature . The literature of wilderness aims at locating the original character , the primal reality , of nature . Pastoral is " the landscape of an idea . " 10 ...
Wilderness is not pastoral . They are radically different visions of nature . The literature of wilderness aims at locating the original character , the primal reality , of nature . Pastoral is " the landscape of an idea . " 10 ...
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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