Time, possible worlds, and counterfactuals

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 433-441

  Hills, Matt ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203871317-52     Document Type: Chapter

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