Bibliographic record
Abstract
From 1871 to the First World War, a large number of fictional works portraying future wars were published in Europe and North America. At that time, many thinkers saw war not as a necessary evil but as a nation-building exercise. During that period, Canadian novels and stories appeared that dramatized future military conflicts, mostly but not always with the United States. Texts like W.H.C. Lawrence’s The Storm of ’92 (1889), Ralph Centennius’s “The Dominion in 1983” (1883), and Ulric Barthe’s Similia similibus (1916) exhibit many of the conventions of British and American future-war fiction, with some noteworthy differences produced by Canada’s position in the world. Given its status as a colony and relative lack of strength, Canada is portrayed not as a major player in world affairs but rather as the victim of the geopolitical machinations of other, more powerful countries. Analyzing these texts also reveals that early Canadian speculative fiction shared a more general literary purpose that critics have detected in much of the country’s fiction, drama, and poetry of the period: not just the articulation but even the creation of a national identity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".