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Science Fiction Cities, Carl Abbott Dec 2013

Science Fiction Cities, Carl Abbott

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This essay argues that cities can also be front and center as vividly imagined worlds whose characteristics play active roles that help to structure the arc of the story, forcing and constraining the choices that the characters make.