There are strong similarities between the story of the initial Tek novel ( and TV pilot ) and Ron Goulart's 1985 novel, Brainz Inc., which involves a murder mystery involving an heiress who is presumed dead and her android duplicate, who shares her memories and personality.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact critic P. Schuyler Miller noted " it was like Ron Goulart's farces, only with more cutting edge — let's say, Goulart programmed by a Swift tape.

As much of the driving force at the early organizing of the MST came from Catholic base communities, much of the MST ideology and actual practice are rooted on the principle, taken from the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, that private property should serve a social function-a principle developed during the 19th century, and made into Catholic official doctrine since Pope Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum encyclical ; on the eve of the 1964 military coup, that was the principle evoked by President João Goulart in his famous " Central rally " ( a mammoth rally held in Rio de Janeiro, near to the city's greatest railroad station, where the president made a speech offering a blueprint for various political and social reforms ) when proposing the expropriation of estates of more than 600 hectares in area situated at the vicinity of federal facilities ( roads, railroads and reservatoirs as well as sanitation works )- a move that triggered the strong conservative resistance leading to Goulart's downfall.

He gained nationwide visibility mostly by acting in defense of democracy and Goulart's rights as president.

In a classification developed by Goulart's Foreign Minister and leader of the moderate left, Santiago Dantas, Brizola was the epitome of the " negative left "-a definition somewhat obscure, given the notorious absence, in Brizola's case, of clear ideological commitments.

Generally, he stood for an extreme Left Nationalism ( land reform, extension of the franchise for illiterates and NCOs ) and for tight controls over foreign investment, something that earned him the hatred of the American ambassador to Brazil, Lincoln Gordon, who went so far as to compare Brizola's propaganda techniques with those of Joseph Goebbels-a mood partaken by most of contemporary American midia In late 1963, after a conservative plan of economic adjustment ( Plano Trienal ) devised by the Ministry of Planning Celso Furtado had failed, Brizola involved himself in a bid for power by means of an attempt to topple Goulart's economically conservative Minister of Finance Carvalho Pinto in order to take the post himself, an attempt that failed — the post was given to a nonentity — but made much to radicalize Brazilian political life at the time.

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On July 2008, a special commission of the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Sul, Goulart's home state, released a document saying that " the evidences that Jango was willfully assassinated, with knowledge of the Geisel government, are strong ".

Eventually, disagreements with Goulart's policies led to his resignation in August 1963.

The country returned to Presidential government in one year, and, as Goulart's powers grew, it became evident that he would seek to implement leftist policies such as land reform and nationalization of enterprises in various economic sectors, regardless of assent from established institutions such as Congress.

" The parliamentary system was implemented to reduce Goulart's powers as president, placating the military.

The various political leaderships raised among Integralistm dispersed into various ideological positions during subsequent political struggles, including many of the former members of the partcipants in the 1964 military coup that was to overthrow President João Goulart, as well as Goulart's Foreign Minister Santiago Dantas, the Catholic bishop D. Hélder Câmara, and the Brazilian populist leader ( and Goulart's brother-in-law ) Leonel Brizola.

Goulart's first professional publication was a 1952 reprint of the SF story " Letters to the Editor " in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ; this parody of a pulp magazine letters column was originally published in the University of California, Berkeley's Pelican.

F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre illustrated Ron Goulart's story " The Robot Who Came to Dinner " in Analog Science Fiction and Fact | Analog ( July – August 2002 ).

Eventually, the 1964 junta and the ensuing military dictatorship proved that the establishment forces that ushered Goulart's mentor into power in the first place, and the bourgeoisie that Vargas helped rear, found the left-leaning turn of Brazilian populism intolerable.

He refused to remain in power beyond the remainder of Goulart's term or to institutionalize the military in power.

Goulart's proposals, such as land reform and bigger control of the state in the economy, were seen as " communist ", though he was from the labour party.

Hemingway's fiction is supported by a `` moral '' backbone and in its search for ultimate meaning hints at a religious dimension.

The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation.

There is a risk that instead of teaching a person how to be himself, reading fiction and drama may teach him how to be somebody else.

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;

Finally, there is the undeniable fact that some of the finest American fiction is being written by Jews, but it is not Jewish fiction ; ;

It happens in the territory of the Leopoldville government, which is itself a fiction, demonstrably incapable of governing, and commanding only such limited credit abroad as UN support gives it.

Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific or technical detail, or on scientific accuracy, or on both.

While writing that the series fulfills the norms of mass-market fiction, as mentioned above, magazine writer Michelle Goldberg characterized the books as an attack on Judaism and liberal secularism, and suggested that the near-future " end times " in which the books are set seem to reflect the actual worldview of millions of Americans, including many prominent conservative leaders.

Campbell's tenure at Astounding is considered to be the beginning of the Golden Age of science fiction, characterized by hard SF stories celebrating scientific achievement and progress.

Hard science fiction, or " hard SF ", is characterized by rigorous attention to accurate detail in quantitative sciences, especially physics, astrophysics, and chemistry, or on accurately depicting worlds that more advanced technology may make possible.

A dictionary definition referring to fantasy literature is " fiction characterized by highly fanciful or supernatural elements.

Literary critic Fredric Jameson has characterized the difference between the two genres by describing science fiction as turning " on a formal framework determined by concepts of the mode of production rather than those of religion "-that is, science fiction texts are bound by an inner logic based more on historical materialism than on magic or the forces of good and evil.

Superhero fiction is a genre characterized by beings with much higher than usual capability and prowess, generally with a desire or need to help the citizens of their chosen country or world by using his or her powers to defeat natural or superpowered threats.

New Wave is a term applied to science fiction produced in the 1960s and 1970s and characterized by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, a " literary " or artistic sensibility, and a focus on " soft " as opposed to hard science.

The contest has also been characterized as a promotional vehicle for Hubbard himself, who returned to science fiction writing with Battlefield Earth at about the same time as he began the contest.

Boucher and McComas characterized Beyond This Horizon as among " the finest science fiction novels of the modern crop .".

However, Groff Conklin, reviewing the novel's initial book publication, characterized it as " a good run-of-the-mill affair " and " pleasant reading ... provided you aren't out hunting science fiction masterpieces.

* Solar System in fiction: Real planets of the Solar System have that have been utilized or characterized in a variety of fictional ways ( e. g. Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Barsoom, a fictional version of Mars ).

Guatemalan author William Spindler's article, “ Magic realism: a typology ,” suggests that there are three kinds of magic realism, which however are by no means incompatible: European ‘ metaphysical ’ magic realism, with its sense of estrangement and the uncanny, exemplified by Kafka ’ s fiction ; ‘ ontological ’ magical realism, characterized by ‘ matter-of-factness ’ in relating ‘ inexplicable ’ events ; and ‘ anthropological ’ magical realism, where a Native worldview is set side by side with the Western rational worldview.

The visual style of science fiction film can be characterized by a clash between alien and familiar images.

Psychobilly is often characterized by lyrical references to science fiction, horror and exploitation films, violence, lurid sexuality, and other topics generally considered taboo, though often presented in a comedic or tongue-in-cheek fashion.

NWOBHM was musically characterized by fast upbeat tempo songs, power chords, fast guitar solos and melodic, soaring vocals, with lyrical themes often drawing inspiration from mythology and fantasy fiction.

Brown's novels are often characterized simply as gothic fiction, although the model he develops is far from the Gothic romance mode of writers such as Ann Radcliffe.

Angelou's major works have been labeled as autobiographical fiction, but many critics have characterized them as autobiographies.

Tim O ' Brien, as the narrator, comments on the fictionality of some of the war stories, commenting on the " truth " behind the story, though all of it is characterized as fiction.

Boogiepop is best characterized as young adult fiction and is credited with starting the light novel trend in Japan.

Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature, characterized by the use of hypertext links which provide a new context for non-linearity in " literature " and reader interaction.

Linda Hutcheon claimed postmodern fiction as a whole could be characterized by the ironic quote marks, that much of it can be taken as tongue-in-cheek.