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The Heart and Graft of Writing Science Fiction

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JOHN BRUNNER , author among many other SF novels of Stand on Zanzibar, argues that younger writers are increasingly drawn to science fiction because of the scope it offers for giving human shape to the threatening abstract forces of our age By this technique he believes science fiction satisfies the age-old need for magic and is a repository of Dionvsian truth in a period of Apollonian change

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