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| | The World Beyond the Hill: Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence by Alexei Panshin and Cory Panshin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | In a massive, colorful history sure to please SF fans, the Panshins, a husband-wife team (SF in Dimension ; Earth Magic), link the genre's pedigree to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Poe, Jules Verne, H. Wells. |
 | | By extrapolating trends in science and technology, SF writers create symbols of transcendent possibility, yet their art, as the study demonstrates, has also mirrored earthly changes--the horrors of two world wars, the holistic universe posited by quantum physicists. |
 | | The Panshins carry their story through 1945, focusing on such writers as Olaf Stapledon, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Lyon Sprague de Camp and A.E. Van Vogt. |
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