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Common terms and phrasesaeais alien invasion American Anarres androids Asimov’s attempt Atwood’s British Boom Butler capitalism central cognitive estrangement colonial Connie’s contemporary corporate critique Crobuzon culture cyberpunk cyberspace cyborg Deckard Delany Delany’s depiction Dick’s Dispossessed dominated dystopian fiction Earth especially example exploration fantasy feminist utopias film future gender genetic engineering genre Gibson Gilead Granny Nanny Guin Guin’s Handmaid’s Tale Heinlein human hybrid important individual literary lives Machine Mars Martians Mattapoisett Meanwhile Mie´ville motif narrative Neuromancer Nineteen Eighty-Four nuclear Oankali Orwell’s Perdido Street Station planet political posthuman postmodern potential protagonist race readers reality Republic of Gilead Robinson’s robots satire science fiction novel sexual short stories Snow Crash social society Space Merchants space opera Star Trek Starship Troopers subgenre suggests Tan-Tan television Tethys time-travel tion tradition trilogy Trouble on Triton typically University utopian fiction virtually virus vision Wells’s women writers Xenogenesis Bibliographic information |