Enjoying his time alone in the pitch black caves and caverns they call home, he is experienced in echo reading and killing soo-bats. Jared is one of the most daring members of his underground group of survivors. Daniel Galouye’s Dark Universe (1961), as mythopoeic as the story is at heart, is one such novel. But in other cases, the simplicity can become something more the author takes advantage of the possibilities inherent to their creation to assign additional levels of significance to its humble surface elements. Golden Age sf is, indeed, so basic as to be fairy tale-ish. Character depth and rich verisimilitude the usual sacrificial offerings, science fiction can come across as a simplistic literature as a result. With settings a toe or foot beyond the real world, science fiction is a literature which must often re-balance the elements of story in order to make room for itself.
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