John J. Pierce
5 Quotations from John J. Pierce
| cyborged adj. | 1993 in C. Smith Rediscovery of Man Introd. p. ix You doubtless know that it was ‘Scanners’ which introduced the Instrumentality of Mankind, although only as a shadowy background to the bizarre tale of the cyborged space pilots who are dead though they live, and would rather kill than live with a new discovery that has made their sacrifice and its attendant rituals obsolete. |
| disaster adj. | 1987 Great Themes of Science Fiction viii. 143 John Christopher (1922— ) is a specialist in the realistic, Earthbound disaster novel, and his No Blade of Grass (1956, as The Death of Grass ) is typical of the school: A mutant virus infects the world’s grain crops, leaving billions to face starvation. |
| fantastic n. 1 | 1987 Great Themes of Science Fiction (facing title-page) Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy Series Editor: Marshall Tynan Forms of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Third International Conference on the Fantastic in Literature and Film William Coyle, editor The Fantastic in World Literature and the Arts: Selected Essays from the Fifth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts Donald E. Morse, editor |
| near-future adj. | 1987 Great Themes of Science Fiction v. 86 Leinster’s ‘Politics’ (1932), a near-future war story, turns on the use of automatic range finders as the decisive element in a Pacific naval battle. |
| uchronian adj. | 1987 Great Themes of Science Fiction ix. 183 Uchronian sf thus developed independently of the tradition of time travel and time paradoxes in Anglo-American sf; indeed, the first important work on the time travel-theme is found in Rene Barjavel’s Future Times Three (1943), in which the paradox of a man’s killing his ancestor is developed rather laboriously. |