PLAYING AGAINST THE CLOCK: THE METAPHOR OF TIME IN "THE FOREVER WAR" AND "THE DECHRONIZATION OF SAM MAGRUDER"
PLAYING AGAINST THE CLOCK: THE METAPHOR OF TIME IN "THE FOREVER WAR" AND "THE DECHRONIZATION OF SAM MAGRUDER"
Author(s): Ted BaileySubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: individualism; metaphor; technology; time travel
Summary/Abstract: This paper examines this fascination and how two science fiction novels, Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War"and George Gaylord Simpson's "The Dechronization of Sam Magruder", use the metaphor of time travel to illustrate isolation and challenge American notions obout technology and individualism.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 2006
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 93-104
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English