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This is How the World Ends: Apocalypse in Science Fiction

Alienating the Audience

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WALL-E and Childhood’s End: Uplifting and Ambiguous Transcendence

They contrast WALL-E’s hopeful robot-driven recovery with Clarke’s Childhood’s End, which frames transcendence as elegant extinction.

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