[…] but Bob ’e jumps inside an’ ’e lets ’im ’ave it plumb square on the meat safe as ’ard as ever the Lord would let ’im put it in.

Give a MC a rectal hysterectomy / Lecture on removal of the bowels, foul technically

In his book Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1979), Suvin introduced a number of ideas that remain central in sf criticism: cognitive estrangement, the novum and sf's genetic link with utopia. […] Even more influential in sf theory than cognitive estrangement is Suvin's concept of the novum. […] Suvin adopts the concept of the novum from the work of Ernst Bloch, for whom the term refers to those concrete innovations of lived history that awaken human collective consciousness out of a static present to awareness that history can be changed. The novum thus inspires hope for positive historical transformations.

One certainly finds far more nostalgia for Nehruvian Indo-Asian unity in Delhi than in any of the capitals of Southeast Asia.