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3.10: The Heat Death of the Universe

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    SF goes experimental—literature, that is.

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    Read this excellently researched article on the meaning and influence of this short story. A Space of Her Own: Pamela Zoline’s “The Heat Death of the Universe” by Mary E. Papke

    Originally published in:

    • originally published in a science fiction magazine (New Worlds)

    Also published in:

    • Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (Justine Larbalestier (ed.), 2006)

    This page titled 3.10: The Heat Death of the Universe is shared under a CC BY license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Amanda Hoppey (WCC Library Open Textbook Collection) .

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