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Neal Stephenson’s “Polostan”: Raising the curtain on a post-cyberpunk sf series about the dawn on the nuclear age.
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Neal Stephenson’s “Polostan” (permalink)
Science fiction isn’t collection of tropes, nor is it a literary style, nor is it a marketing category. It can encompass all of these, but what sf really is, is an outlook.
At the core of sf is an approach to technology (and, sometimes, science): sf treats technology as a kind of crux that the rest of the tale revolves around. The Bechdel test invites us to notice that in most fiction, stories revolve around men – that it’s rare for two or more non-male characters to
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