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The Science (Fiction) of Life. Special Issue of Biography on "Life Writing and Science Fiction." Vol. 30, No. 1 (Winter 2007). John Rieder, Guest Editor
As an increasing number of critics turn their attention to science fiction in a wider and wider variety of academic (and other) forums, the juxtaposition of sf with other literary modes becomes an increasingly familiar critical trope. Some pairings of the type "science fiction and X" are completely expected, as when X stands for Utopian fiction or fantasy; others, like "science fiction and the historical novel" or "science fiction and postmodernism" are only slightly less obvious. But we are beginning to see ...
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