Reading by Starlight : Postmodern Science Fiction PDF
by Damien Broderick
Part of the Popular Fictions Series series
Description
Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre.
Damier Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive `encyclopaedia'. He shows how, for perfect understanding, sci-fi readers must learn the codes of these imaginary worlds and vocabularies, all the time picking up references to texts by other writers.
Reading by Starlight includes close readings of paradigmatic cyberpunk texts and writings by SF novelists and theorists including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Patrick Parrinder, Kim Stanley Robinson, John Varley, Roger Zelazny, William Gibson, Fredric Jameson and Samuel R. Delaney.
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- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Taylor and Francis
- Publication Date:01/12/1994
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- ISBN:9780203993217
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Taylor and Francis
- Publication Date:01/12/1994
- Category:
- ISBN:9780203993217