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#5
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Essays
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1983
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Xenology: The New Science of Asking, "Who's Out There?"
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1984
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The Deadly Thing at 2.4 Kilo-Parsecs
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1985
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Just How Dangerous Is the Galaxy?
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1986
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The Dogma of Otherness
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1986
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Running Out of Speculative Niches: A Crisis for Hard SF?
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1987
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A Shaman's View
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1989
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Metaphorical Drive - Or Why We're Such Good Liars
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1989
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The Time Flow of Wisdom
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1989
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The Image of the Magician
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1990
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Science versus Magic
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1990
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The Commonwealth of Wonder
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1990
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On Niven
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1990
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A Western Way of Thought
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1991
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The Dangers of First Contact
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1992
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Abortion and the Failure of Consensus
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1992
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The Bubbling Universe
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1992
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Waging War with Reality
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1994
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Only Science Fiction Can Solve the Perplexing Problem of Gun Control
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1994
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First Word: Of Elves and Aliens
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1994
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What to Say to a UFO
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1994
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Whose Millennium?
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1995
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Forget SF's Magical Warp Drives. Can Today's Science Give Us the Stars for Real?
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1995
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John Brunner: Further Appreciations
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1996
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A World in Love with Change
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1998
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Jim Burns: Artist and Cover Illustrator
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1999
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Achilles, Superman, and Darth Vader... Or Why Star Wars Has It in for Our Rebel Civilization
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1999
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The Observatory: Ultimate Surveillance
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1999
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George Orwell and the Self-Preventing Prophecy
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2000
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Preventing Tomorrows: Harry Harrison and the Most Dangerous Sea
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2001
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Greg Bear: Citizen of the Renaissance
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2001
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Seeking a New Fulcrum: Parapsychology and the Need to Believe in a New Transcendence
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2001
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Hardware: Does Art Have a Role in Saving the World?
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2001
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Clifford Simak
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2001
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Citizen of the Renaissance
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2001
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Poul Anderson
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2001
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Some Unspoken Lessons from Sept. 11...About the Value of Common Citizens in an Age of Danger
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2002
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Locus Celebrates Issue 500
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2002
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Tribute to Robert Forward
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2002
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The Lord of the Rings: J.R.R. Tolkien vs. the Modern Age
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2003
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Burnable Benford: or Attack of the Clone
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2003
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The Matrix: Tomorrow May Be Different
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2003
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Do We Really Want Immortality?
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2003
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Go Ahead, Stand on My Shoulders! (Some Advise to Neo-Writers)
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2003
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Probing the Near Future
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2003
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The Future Keeps Surprising Us (or Some Reflections on a Space Odyssey)
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2003
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The Open-Ended Science Fiction Story: A Challenge to New Colleagues
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2003
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The Self-Preventing Prophecy: Or How a Dose of Nightmare Can Help Tame Tomorrow's Perils
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2003
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We Hobbits Are a Merry Folk... an Incautious and Heretical 1st Draft About J.R.R. Tolkien
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2003
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Tomorrow May Be Different
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2004
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To Read The Separation
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2004
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What Hess Sought
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2004
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Science Fiction Museum: Comments
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2004
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We Hobbits Are a Merry Folk... an Incautious and Heretical Re-Appraisal of J.R.R. Tolkien
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2006
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Jack Williamson: A World in Love with Change
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2006
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Doing a Slow Turn: The Poison of Cynicism
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2006
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Star Trek
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2007
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Jack Williamson
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2007
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Report on China
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2007
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The Year of SF in Asia
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2008
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Birthday Tribute to Arthur Clarke
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2008
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Arthur C. Clarke
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2008
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A Long, Lonely Road: Some Informal Advice to New Authors
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2008
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Guilty Pleasures: Or Why Buffy Goes
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2008
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Isaac Asimov: Scientist and Science Fiction Author
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2008
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The Dark Side: Star Wars, Mythology and Ingratitude
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2008
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The Uplift Universe
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2009
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Thinking About SF
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2010
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Frederik Pohl - Architect of Worlds
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2012
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Ray Bradbury
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2013
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Iain M. Banks
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2013
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Anne McCaffrey, Believer in Us
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2013
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Pole Star
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2014
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A Long and Lonely Road
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2015
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So You Want to Make Gods. Why Should That Bother Anyone?
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2016
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A True Original
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2016
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The Heresy of Science Fiction
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2017
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Singularities and Nightmares: The Range of Our Possible Futures
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2017
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A Tsunami of Light
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2017
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How Dangerous Is Republican Manic-Depressive Disease? Both Bipolar Phases Are Destructive, But the Manic Ones Kill?
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