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The previous chapter argued that the task of describing science fiction does not resolve itself into any kind of hard-edged ‘truth-claim’ or content-based definition of the genre, but rather into a delineation of the continuum by which SF can be meaningfully identified as that form of Fantastika that embodies a technical (materialist) enframing, as opposed to the religious (supernatural) approach we would today associate with genre fantasy.
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Roberts, A. (2016). SF and the Ancient Novel. In: The History of Science Fiction. Palgrave Histories of Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56957-8_2
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