Why They Kill Jules Verne: SF and Cartesian Culture.
Bernard Blanc's book "Why I Killed Jules Verne," and its radical premise (that Verne the tyrannical "father" of sf must be killed so that his progeny, the new French writers of the late 1970s, can reclaim science fiction as their own terrain of activity) is symptomatic of a broader cultural attitude...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 61 - 80 |
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University of California Press
Mar2005
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