A social science fiction of fevers, delirium and discovery: The Calcutta Chromosome, the colonial laboratory, and the postcolonial new human

Science-Fiction Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 246-266

  Nelson, Diane M ^a  

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