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No curmudgeonly argument here.

Yes, you could definitely add Swift's Gulliver's Travels and perhaps More's Utopia (isn't most Science Fiction really social fiction ?) to the list.

Hoyle's "The Black Cloud" was also an interesting book for the genre, as much for its description of the philosophy of science as its (at the time unique) speculation on the nature of extraterretrial sentience and complete lack of allegories.

What was it about the 60's that made people think that we'd all be wearing velour jumpsuits nowadays ?

Anyway, your point about displaced/latent religous feelings is well taken- and is a common theme throughout SF (and Fantasy for that matter- Lord of the Rings, despite Tolkein's denial of its allegorical content, is full of obvious parrallels to Christianity)



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  • No curmudgeonly argument here. - john dem 16:44:20 11/29/01 (0)


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