If this is polemic, it rests on a conceit: the analogy of SF criticism’s thrust and Freud’s hypothesis of the death instinct. This is not, however, as bizarre a linkage as it may at first appear. Just ...

His questions become rhetorical, iterative, and acerbic, no doubt polemic. When I attended the Kerala Literature Festival (KLF) this year, a version of the polemic attendee briefly interrupted ...