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Links for 22-07-2008

Posted by Paul Raven @ 22-07-2008 in General •

Sf ideas as plot enablers …

1 – Searching for Coincidences While Travelling Faster-Than-Light

“Science fiction often seems to be a history of discrete ideas – time travel, FTL, the Singularity… And because the focus is on those ideas as ideas, their role in enabling the plot is ignored.” Ian Sales.

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Ian Sales says:
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:09 am

Thanks for the link!

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