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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Mowery has taught at Southern Illinois University and Murray State University. In the following essay, he explores the ways Vonnegut uses satire to attack the idea of forced equality.] Kurt Vonnegut is a contemporary...
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From:Literature Resource Center[In the following essay, Fitzpatrick, an author and doctoral candidate at New York University, maintains that although Orwell's dystopian vision has not been born out by Soviet-style communism, the author's fears about...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Brian Stableford sold his first SF story while still at school, and three of his early novels—The Blind Worm, To Challenge Chaos, and Firefly: A Novel of the Far Future—are partly or wholly cannibalized from material...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Octavia Butler's cover blurb for Heritage of Flight says, "This novel reminds one that SF is a literature of ideas and not all those ideas are shiny and metallic." Indeed, Susan Shwartz lives up to her name...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersIsaac Asimov is the extraordinarily prolific writer of a prodigious number of works including science fiction, science fact, mystery, history, short stories, guides to the Bible and Shakespeare, and discussions of myth,...
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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSWonders, Inc. (Berkeley, Cal.: Parnassus, 1968).The Last Vikings (Toronto, Ontario: Clarke, Irwin, 1974).Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia (Vancouver, British...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)George Orwell's worldwide reputation as a writer of science fiction rests upon a single novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Such is the dynamic force of this work that the title of the book has become a universal symbol for the...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Today, Rudyard Kipling is chiefly remembered as a spokesman for imperialism and as a skillful versifier, and it is often overlooked that approximately one in six of his published short stories were science fiction or...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersWilliam Gibson has been credited with reinvigorating the science fiction genre, giving it a lean, mean, and utterly contemporary edge. His debut novel, Neuromancer (1984), carried off science fiction's three major...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Most critical discussions of Arthur C. Clarke's writings rarely look beyond his stories and novels; but to understand his fiction, one must examine how Clarke has thought about future possibilities, because this reveals...
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From:St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers (4th ed.)Both science fiction and detective fiction by Isaac Asimov unite in revealing in the author a fondness for the fact, a delight in reasoning from careful observation, and an absorption in cause and effect. Several...
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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Alvarez is an instructor in the English and Foreign Languages department at Central Piedmont Community College in North Carolina. In the following essay, he discusses “Harrison Bergeron ” in light of Vonnegut's own...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Ray Douglas Bradbury is probably the first American writer of science fiction to become widely known outside the field. Although his reputation rests in considerable part on two early novels, The Martian Chronicles...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)When the New Wave began to flourish in the mid-1960s, paradoxically a writer appeared whose work embodied many of the genre conventions which that movement was rejecting: science fiction as the depiction of technical...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersWhen asked how he would liked to be remembered by future generations, Ray Bradbury once replied "as a magician of ideas and words." Indeed, Bradbury is such a magician, and he is one of the twentieth century's most...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)Aldous Huxley was fascinated throughout his career by the the idea of Utopia, the society in which change has settled down into a stasis of perfection. In his last novel, Island, he saw it as a benign perfection in a...
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From:Literature Resource Center[Eller is an assistant professor at Northeast Louisiana University. In the following essay, he explores the historical climate that helped create Fahrenheit 451 and its protests against mindless conformity and...
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From: an Essay for Exploring Novels[Hochman, who teaches at Portland Community College, provides an overview of the unique setting Huxley constructed for his novel and how the work is an argument for individualism.] Aldous Huxley's most enduring and...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt may seem odd that Afrofuturism, a dynamic movement, still employs alien figures. Sun-Ra's extraterrestrial performances offered foundational alternatives to negative social inscriptions and deletions of African...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIN 1959, A BADGER BURROWED THROUGH THE SECURITY LINE SURROUNDING the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State. The site had been established in 1943 as a part of the Manhattan Project and was home to the first...