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(3.76) | 7 | "Discusses the works of Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Lucian, H.G. Wells, John W. Campbell, and others from Victorian times to the present."-- |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. Rooted as they are in the facts of contemporary life, the phantasies of even a second-rate writer of modern Science Fiction are incomparably richer, bolder and stranger than the Utopian or Millennial imaginings of the past.
Aldous Huxley: Literature and Science  Often I sit alone at night, staring with the eyes of my mind into the darkness of unborn time, and wondering in what shape and form the great drama will be finally developed, and where the scene of its next act will be held.
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Wy are the public buildings so high? How come you don't know? Why, that's because the spirits of the public are so low.
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. Most frequently, the scientific dressing clothes fantasy. And fantasies are as meaningful as science. The phantasms of technology now fittingly embody our hopes and anxieties. It is from this angle that I have approached my subject. (introduction) This volume will use the term 'science fiction' (and the abbreviation 'sf'), a widely preferred usage to the hyphenated science-fiction. Perhaps unease at the ungrammatical distortion of having a noun do duty as adjective has led to the fashion for abbreviating the term in a number of ways: SF, sf, sci-fi, sci-fic, si-fi, si-fic. Only would-be trendies use sci-fi. (footnote in chapter one) Wells is the Prospero of all the brave new worlds of the mind, and the Shakespeare of science fiction. (chapter five) So why does one obstinately respect Wells the more? It must be because, whatever else his failings, he is trying to grapple with what he sees as the real world, whereas Burroughs -- however expertly, and he can be a mesmerist -- is dishing out daydreams. (chapter seven) Ghastly writer though Lovecraft is, predictable though the horrors are. somewhere buried in his writing is a core of power that remains disconcerting when all the adjectives have fallen away like leaves. (chapter seven) One must add that Le Guin is a rarity in that she writes beautifully. Not prettily. Beautifully. Her prose is a pleasure to read. (chapter eleven) I concur with Harlan Ellison; much of the best writing in science fiction today is being done by women (and he didn't even mention Christine Brooke-Rose, author of Such (1966), and a fine modern novelist.
What has made the difference is the disappearance of the Philistine-male-chauvinist-pig attitude, pretty well dissipated by the revolutions of the mid-sixties; and the slow fade of the Gernsbackian notion that sf is all hardware. ... (chapter eleven) | |
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