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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...

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Published in:Science Fiction Studies Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 145 - 157
Main Author: Samuelson, David N.
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: University of California Press Jul93
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