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Science fiction critic Thomas Wagner underscores the desire for meaning, or pattern recognition, using a comparison between the film clips and Cayce's search for her father after the attacks: he very randomness and ineffability of the clips flies in the face of our natural human tendency towards pattern recognition ... he subculture that surrounds " following the footage " ... an effective plot device for underscoring the novel's post-9 / 11 themes: to wit, the uncertainty of the fabric of day-to-day life people began to feel following that event … as people don't like uncertainty, don't like knowing that there's something we can't comprehend.
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Wollheim was a member of the New York Science Fiction League, one of the clubs established by Hugo Gernsback to promote science fiction.
Wollheim edited the first science fiction anthology to be mass-marketed, The Pocket Book of Science Fiction ( 1943 ).
Shortly before World War II, he edited two of the earliest periodicals devoted entirely to science fiction, Stirring Science Stories and Cosmic Stories.
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Science fiction author H. G. Wells noted, " Pym tells what a very intelligent mind could imagine about the south polar region a century ago.
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From 1950 to 1955, he was the book critic for Galaxy Science Fiction.
A critic of modern rationalism and apologist of classical antiquity, Vico's magnum opus is Scienza Nuova ( 1725 ), often published in English as New Science.
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Heinkel had been a critic of Hitler's regime concerning being forced to fire Jewish designers and staff in 1933, however, he was a member of the Nazi party, awarded the German National Prize for Art and Science in 1938, one of the rarest honors of the German government, and he used forced Jewish labor starting in 1941, in which his company was considered a " model for slave labor.
" Oliphant became a harsh critic of nuclear weapons and a member of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
Science fiction author and critic Bruce Sterling noted in his essay in CATSCAN 13:
Before becoming Deputy Leader, Bachand served as the Deputy House Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, as well as its critic for the Intergovernmental Affairs, Industry, Science Research and Development, and the Deputy Prime Minister portfolios.
Feminist critic Patricia Melzer writes in Alien Constructions: Science Fiction and Feminist Thought that gynoids in Richard Calder's Dead Girls are inextricably linked to men's lust, and are mainly designed as sex-objects, having no use beyond " pleasing men's violent sexual desires ".
Rajotte was the CPC official opposition critic for Industry and also fulfilled the role of opposition critic for Science, Research and Development.
Bergeron held many positions as a Member of Parliament including whip of the Bloc and critic of Parliamentary Affairs, Intergovernmental Affairs, Privy Council, Foreign Affairs, Industry, Science, Research, and Development, International Trade and Asia-Pacific.
Appointed as the critic for Science and Research within the Liberal shadow cabinet, Mr. Fontana was strongly speculated to be considering a run for leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, though he ultimately did not seek the post, supporting Gerard Kennedy instead.
She has also served as opposition critic of Canadian Heritage, Amateur Sport, the National Capital Commission, Science, Research and Development, the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, and Small Business.
Dance critic Margaret Lloyd of the Christian Science Monitor praised the " felicitous humor " Erdman brought to her role as the Speaking Fate and called her " irreplaceable " in the 1941 revival of Letter to the World.
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.
" However, science fiction critic Robert K. J. Killheffer, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, wrote " it's not his best — it lacks the dense and evocative background of his Takeshi Kovacs books, and Morgan is not as sure-handed with near-future situations and characters — but it takes chances and largely succeeds.
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Baptist evangelist Justin Peters, an outspoken critic of the Word of Faith movement who wrote his Master of Divinity thesis on Benny Hinn and has appeared frequently as an expert on Word of Faith pastors in documentaries and TV news stories, traces the movement's origins to the late 19th and early 20th centuries ( Phineus Quimby's New Thought Movement, Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science ) in his seminar " A Call for Discernment ".
Science fiction critic David Seed said of the trilogy that it " has all the stylistic verve of his earlier work, but it asks some tougher questions, explores character more deeply, and savagely interrogates our star-obsessed society.
In Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels ( 1985 ), editor and critic David Pringle named Bradley and Anne McCaffrey two " leading practitioners nowadays " for the planetary romance type of science fiction.
The term was first used in print by science fiction critic Donald G. Keller in an article, The Manner of Fantasy, in the April, 1991 issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction, although author Ellen Kushner has said that she suggested the term to Keller.
Dietz was an outspoken critic of creationism, and was the faculty advisor of two student groups at Arizona State University in 1985, Americans Promoting Evolution Science ( APES ) and the Phoenix Skeptics.
Sci-fi critic and editor David Pringle included it in his book, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels.
Jerome Bert Wiesner ( May 30, 1915 – October 21, 1994 ) was an educator, a Science Advisor to U. S. Presidents Eisenhower and ( more formally ) Kennedy and Johnson, an advocate for arms control, and a critic of anti-ballistic-missile defense systems.
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