ON HARD SCIENCE FICTION.
Discusses the relevance of science fiction (SF) to science. Characterization of hard SF; Constitution and writers of SF; Growing receptive audience; Contradictory arguments of defenders of hard SF on its being a core of the genre and its danger of being abandoned; Failure of dealing with the rhetori...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 145 - 157 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of California Press
Jul93
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| Sumario: | Discusses the relevance of science fiction (SF) to science. Characterization of hard SF; Constitution and writers of SF; Growing receptive audience; Contradictory arguments of defenders of hard SF on its being a core of the genre and its danger of being abandoned; Failure of dealing with the rhetoric and science of SF; Styles, characterization and standards of judgment for behavior; Secondary materials; Appropriation of world view of science; Bibliography. |
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