... at all. He disdainfully refers to it as "the last refuge of the unimaginative", and expresses a desire for science fiction to become abstract and start exploring a number of high-concept themes: "I"d like to see more psycho-literary ideas, more meta-biological and meta-chemical concepts, private time systems, synthetic psychologies and space-times, more of the sombre half-worlds one glimpses ... . Utopianism by Krishan Kumar (Open University Press, 1999) goes into interesting detail regarding this idea of Paradise or the Golden Age, that fits perfectly with a number of the ideas and them...

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