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Approaches to Science Fiction

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Approaches to Science Fiction	comment	This 1978 Genre Anthology by editor Donald L Lawler is full of Conversational Troping, as Lawler breaks down Science Fiction Literature into five major parts; ur-examples of Science Fiction, Science Fantasy, "hard" versus "soft" science fiction, and Genre-Busting Speculative Fiction.Each section is again broken down into popular aspects of their respective impacts on the genre, with Lawler describing how each category made an impact on the genre as a whole. Space Opera, Robots, aliens, the Utopia/Dystopia settings, and the way authors have begun to mix Science Fiction with other genres, including Sci-Fi Horror.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_1c45d4d7	type	Our Nudity Is Different
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_1c45d4d7	comment	Our Nudity Is Different: Fritz Leiber's "Coming Attraction": Being topless is fine for a woman... so long as she wears a mask.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_1dd66104	type	Venus Is Wet
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_1dd66104	comment	Venus Is Wet: Leigh Brackett's "Enchantress Of Venus": In this story, Venus is warm, wet, and cloudy; most of its surface is ocean or low-lying swamp.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Ray Bradbury's "Mars Is Heaven!": The explorers land on Mars and find all their deceased relatives, apparently alive and well, until the captain of the ship realizes something was amiss, and the shapeshifting telepathic Martians go on a killing spree.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_550854fe	type	Telepathic Spacemen
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_550854fe	comment	Telepathic Spacemen: Ray Bradbury's "Mars Is Heaven!": The telepathic Martians create a Lotus-Eater Machine to trap the crew of a human spaceship until they're all asleep, so the Martians can murder them easily.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine: Ray Bradbury's "Mars Is Heaven!": Part of The Martian Chronicles, this story starts out as a sort of Ontological Mystery in the beginning. A crew from Earth land on Mars, which looks like Ohio at the turn of the 20th century. However, their long lost dead relatives start appearing, and everyone gets lost in the excitement of seeing old faces again. It has a Downer Ending: the residents of the town are shape-shifting telepathic Martians who put up the facade to throw the spacemen off guard. It works: that night, just as the Captain is beginning to realize this, his "brother" turns into an alien and stabs him to death. The same thing happens all over town. The next day, they have a funeral for the spacemen... and then take on their true forms and gleefully tear the ship apart.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: Even with restricting itself to excerpts of the novel-length fiction, this book adds up to over 570 pages.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: An excerpt of Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein", is included during "Part 1: Nineteenth-Century Backgrounds".
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_79228148	type	Nostalgia Heaven
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_79228148	comment	Nostalgia Heaven: Ray Bradbury's "Mars Is Heaven!": Some explorers land on Mars and are stunned to find their childhood hometown, populated by all their deceased relatives, very much alive and well. It's a trick.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_8be61ba9	type	Up the Real Rabbit Hole
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_8be61ba9	comment	Up the Real Rabbit Hole: Larry Niven's "All The Myriad Ways": This story is set in a world where travellers to parallel universes report worlds where the Cuba War was "a damp squib" (called the Cuban Missile Crisis) and return with different technology such as the stapler.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: In "The Nine Billion Names Of God", the lamas believe that when they have finished recording all of the names of God, their purpose will be done. The computer engineer figures they mean the end of the earth, but they really mean the end of everything.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_985d6d7f	type	Master of Illusion
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_985d6d7f	comment	Master of Illusion: Ray Bradbury's "Mars Is Heaven!": An expedition to Mars is surprised to find an Earth village populated by all their deceased relatives, only to realize too late it's a trap designed to lure them outside their rocketship so they can be easily murdered.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_a9fa639a	type	Interstellar Weapon
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_a9fa639a	comment	Interstellar Weapon: In "The Star", a Short Story by H. G. Wells, when the perspective changes to the Martian astronomers, it's suddenly revealed that the titular star was actually a missile that had been fired from outside the solar system.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_b1e5dde1	type	Earth All Along
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_b1e5dde1	comment	Earth All Along: Arthur C. Clarke's "Encounter In The Dawn": In this Short Story, a First Contact situation occurs between a technologically advanced galaxy-spanning empire and a primitive caveman tribe on a backwater planet. The description of the explorers is humans in the Standard Sci Fi Setting, however when the survey team is recalled, it is revealed that the cavemen they interacted with would eventually build the city of Babylon.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_c36f6d6c	type	Mummy
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_c36f6d6c	comment	Mummy: Edgar Allan Poe's "Some Words With A Mummy": This is an unusual case where the mummy isn't Undead- he went into a cataleptic state and didn't come out for thousands of years. Since he was of a particular group known as the Scarabeus, he was fortunate enough not to get his internal organs removed during embalming.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: "Berom", by John Berryman "Darkness", by Lord Byron "Frankenstein", by Mary Shelley
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_e0a8ebe5	type	The Shangri-La
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_e0a8ebe5	comment	The Shangri-La: In Arthur C. Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names Of God", the Tibetan lamasery is accessible by air, and in a subversion of typical expectations, has been embracing the way technology can be used to assist in their worship. They've even hired a couple of computer engineers to program a printer to output every name of God.
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Approaches to Science Fiction / int_e3109dae	type	Switching P.O.V.
Approaches to Science Fiction / int_e3109dae	comment	Switching P.O.V.: In "The Star", a Short Story by H. G. Wells, the story is in omniscient third-person, describing how events play out from Earth's perspective. For the very last paragraph, however, the perspective shifts to Mars, explaining their perception of the recent events.
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