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Comic Tones in Science Fiction : The Art of Compromise with Nature by Donald M. Hassler
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This study is a meditation upon the uses of the comic as a survival technique in our capricious age of crisis and indeterminacy. ... Comic irony, argues Hassler, becomes a tonal direction for our own skeptical age, where notions of progress have made it a partner with the absurd. Ursula LeGuin, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, and William Golding become part of the author's design. This is a closely reasoned study and shows the delight of a scholar enjoying unity in diversity. -Choice ?This study is a meditation upon the uses of the comic as a survival technique in our capricious age of crisis and indeterminacy. ... Comic irony, argues Hassler, becomes a tonal direction for our own skeptical age, where notions of progress have made it a partner with the absurd. Ursula LeGuin, Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, and William Golding become part of the author's design. This is a closely reasoned study and shows the delight of a scholar enjoying unity in diversity.?-Choice
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