Analyzing Humanity's Fate Beyond the Anthropocene in the Works of Sheri S. Tepper.
The aim of this article is to juxtapose two of Sheri S. Tepper's works--Beauty (1991) and the PLAGUE OF ANGELS trilogy (1993-2014)--in order to demonstrate how her vision of humanity's future beyond the Anthropocene evolves or devolves in the course of her literary career, from the promise of magica...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 396 - 415 |
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University of California Press
Nov2023
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