34. Also saw b) philosophers like Sidney Hook look at the idea of Great Man and c) SF dealing with problem or idea of Great Man.
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35. Asimov's Foundation novels don't mention Hitler (as I recall) but problem of the Mule is the Hitler problem imagined into the future.
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36. Asimov & Heinlein both wrote "future history": not random speculation but attempt to discipline future with historical thought
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37. To borrow a point from
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38. As
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39. To simplify for twitter: Fantastika is the meta-genre born in the French Revolution (includes SF, fantasy, historical fic, horror)
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40. Fantastika (Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, etc) product of the epistemoloigcal rupture of French Revolution: attempt to describe new world
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41. Everyone is saying I should be talking about Norman Spinrad's Iron Dream. But a) this is too long & b) I have to do housework.
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42. So we'll end now and take up issues another time.
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@helenacobban Maybe. I'm testing the limits. 45-50 tweets seems like the upper edge of what works in the form.
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