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October 1985 Issue [Criticism]

The Temple of Boredom

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Science fiction, no future
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Anne McCaffrey Charles Whitmore Future in literature J.G. Ballard James P. Hogan John Varley Russell Hoban Samuel R. Delany Science fiction Stanislaw Lem

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