Abstract
This study began by arguing that the task of defining science fiction resolves itself not into a pseudo-‘truth claim’, hard-edged definition of the field, but rather into a delineation of the continuum by which SF can be meaningfully separated out as that form of the Fantastic that embodies a technical (materialist) ‘enframing’, as opposed to the religious (supernatural) approach we would today call ‘Fantasy’
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Roberts, A. (2006). Science Fiction and the Ancient Novel. In: The History of Science Fiction. Palgrave Histories of Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554658_2
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