The Republic was once included as required reading for a course in
science-fiction i took over twenty-three years ago, as was Erewhon and
Gulliver's Travels.
-Gerald
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From: "domfox" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:59 PM
Subject: On the affinity between poetry and sci-fi
> If there had been sci-fi authors when Plato was writing, he'd have banned
> them from the Republic too.
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