Science-fiction Studies, Volume 2, Issue 1SFS Publications, 1975 - Science fiction |
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... novel comes to this : a short story may deal with a murder ; a novel deals with the murderer , and his actions stem from a psyche which , if the writer knows his craft , he has previously presented . The difference , therefore , between a ...
... novel comes to this : a short story may deal with a murder ; a novel deals with the murderer , and his actions stem from a psyche which , if the writer knows his craft , he has previously presented . The difference , therefore , between a ...
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... novel . As a writer builds up a novel - length piece it slowly begins to imprison him , to take away his freedom ; his own characters are taking over and doing what they want to do - not what he would like them to do . This is on one ...
... novel . As a writer builds up a novel - length piece it slowly begins to imprison him , to take away his freedom ; his own characters are taking over and doing what they want to do - not what he would like them to do . This is on one ...
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novel . ( And this quite apart from any criticism one could make of the " con- tents " of the traditional SF novel . ) But the reader of Ubik is refused any such final , definitive interpretation . At the end of the novel the reader ...
novel . ( And this quite apart from any criticism one could make of the " con- tents " of the traditional SF novel . ) But the reader of Ubik is refused any such final , definitive interpretation . At the end of the novel the reader ...
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3SPE Ace pb alien American Androids Androids Dream Antiterra Ardis axis becomes Bloodmoney Bluthgeld Bohlen carbon concepts Counter-Clock World creative critical culture Dangerfield dead Dick Dick's novels Dick's writing Dickian Doubleday hb Dream of Electric Earth Electric Sheep Eliot's eversion Flow My Tears forces future Galactic Pot-Healer genre Gollancz hb Guin Guin's Hainish cycle half-life hb for SFBC heroes High Castle Hoppy human Joe Chip Jory kind Lathe literary literature magazine Manfred Marina Mars Martian Time-Slip Maze of Death means metaphysical Nabokov objective Palmer Eldritch paranormal Penultimate Truth Philip Philip K Planet plot political present Preserving Machine psychological published reader Runciter science fiction science-fiction scientific Senoi SF writers Simulacra Sirens of Titan social society Solar Lottery space Stigmata Stigmata of Palmer Terra theme things Three Stigmata Titan Ubik universe unpublished utopian Veen vision Vonnegut Wait for Last