![]() ![]() ![]() Item Type:Īdam Roberts, Isaac Asimov, science fiction, Golden Age, chaos theory. ![]() McFarlane argues that this move produces a more democratic view of the galaxy, one that demands revolution to escape the exploitative hierarches under which Jack Glass lives. McFarlane finds that the move from Asimov’s Foundation to Jack Glass’s galaxy is a move from Newtonian physics to chaos theory, a move which demands attention be paid to small phenomenon, such as individual humans rather than ‘the masses’. McFarlane focuses on the ways in which Adam Roberts' novel Jack Glass overcomes the conventions of Golden Age science fiction by reading the novel alongside Asimov’s Foundation novels. ![]()
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