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- Title
Linear Man: Jack Vance and the Value of Plot in Science Fiction.
- Authors
Williams, Jack P.
- Abstract
Discusses the value of plots in science fiction literature and Jack Vance's application of plots. Definition of a good plot based on rational empiricism; Assumption of the realization of the law of cause and effect relationships; Revelation of the bond between detective fiction and science fiction; Failure of Vance to plot effectively due to his avoidance of plotting obligations; Impact of the absence of any plot on the thickness of verbal texture and cultural surface of Vance's alien worlds; Use of plot structures that make cause-and-effect sequences irrelevant or impossible.
- Subjects
STORY plots; SCIENCE fiction; FANTASY fiction; LITERATURE &; science; EMPIRICISM in literature; CAUSATION (Philosophy); MYSTERY fiction
- Publication
Extrapolation (Kent State University Press), 1983, Vol 24, Issue 4, p356
- ISSN
0014-5483
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.3828/extr.1983.24.4.356