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Two essays deal with: 1/ “Liberalism mutes the Anticipation”, and 2/ “Anticipating the Sunburst”. The text is taken from a first pagination of the 1979 book MOSF and has mistakes.  1/ This chapter 7 of MOSF analyzes first Verne as … Continue reading →

After a brief Introduction, two essays deal: 1/ with an overview of H.G. Wells’s SF, and 2/ with a depth probe of his general model for SF, adopted in most of it after him. The text is taken from a … Continue reading →

Chapter 1. D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: P. Lang, 2021.

After a brief Introduction, two essays deal with: 1/ “The Alternative Island,” from Morus to the planetary novel, and 2/ “The Shift to Anticipation,” i.e. from space to time, from the French revolution up to Wells. The text is taken … Continue reading →

PARABLES OF DE-ALIENATION LE GUIN’S WIDDERSHINS DANCE (1975) D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: P. Lang, 2021.chapter 10

D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and Narrative Logics: Positions and Presuppositions in Science Fiction and Utopianism, 2 Vols. Ed. Eric D. Smith. Oxford: P. Lang, 2021.chapter 8

Four Worries on Science Fiction Contexts (1970-75)-Is the Publisher Always Right?  (1970-72)-SF Writers, the Great Consensus, and Non-Alignment  (1973)-On Tony Wolk in SFS #8: Does Criticism Have Premises?  (1976)-SF and Pulp-Paper Publishing Practices  (1974) D. Suvin, Parables of Freedom and … Continue reading →