Less is more: Much less is much more: The insistent allure of nanotechnology narratives in science fiction literature

Nanoculture

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 131-146

  Landon, Brooks ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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