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Article: Is air Mundane?(Critical essay)
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- Extrapolation
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- June 22, 2008
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In 2004, Geoff Ryman proposed the idea of Mundane sf, science fiction with "no FTL, no FTL Communications, no time travel, no aliens in the flesh, no immortality, no telepathy, no parallel universes, no magic wands" ("Take the Third Star"); such science fiction, he suggested, "could be the meeting ground for hard sf (since it privilcges the likely technology) and humanist sf (since il privileges everyday life)" (Hill). in 2005, his novel Air appcared to great acclaim, and was taken by some readers to be an example of Mundane sf. Ryman himself has said that it is not; he bcgan writing Air long before he advanced the Mundane manifesto, and even if he had not, he has never ...
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