1. Utopian/dystopian thinking in 60s fiction
... but for a long time it remained an isolated example, even though the ecological movement developed strongly in the 1960's and 1970's. Its main literary expression was, like most forms of utopia/dystopia, to be found in science fiction. Frank Herbert's Dune (1965) is one of the ... , of course, nothing can equal space fiction for its vast perspectives and cold beauty, as any s-f film or comic strip demonstrates, but a literary form requires more complex idea to sustain it. The spaceship simply doesn't provide these" Ballard claims that accuracy, science fact, does not matter at ... refuge ...
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