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REVIEw OF CRITICAL THEORY AnD SCIEnCE FICTIOn
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December 31, 2004
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Carl Freedman. Critical Theory and Science Fiction. Hanover, MA: Wesleyan University P, 2000. 228 pages. ISBN: (HB)0 8195 6398 6, (TPB) 8195 6399 4
By this time, several years after its initial publication, Carl Freedman's dense work on "classic" modern science fiction, what it's about and what it's supposed to do, has had time to make its way into the critical dialog about the fictional form we think we recognize as science fiction. His Critical Theory and Science Fiction, an elaboration on a 1987 article in Science Fiction Studies (14, no. 2, July 1987), has already been discussed at conferences, cited in papers and commented on in a few prestigious review media such as Choice (September ...
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