Reading by Starlight:

Postmodern Science Fiction

Routledge, 1995 - Literary Criticism - 197 pages

Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre.
Damien 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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NEW WORLD NEW TEXTS	3

GENERIC ENGINEERING	21

GENRE OR MODE?	37

THE USES OF OTHERNESS	49

READING THE EPISTEME	65

DREAMS OF REASON AND UNREASON	77

THE STARS MY DISSERTATION	91

MAKING UP WORLDS	105

ALLOGRAPHY AND ALLEGORY	119

SF AS A MODULAR CALCULUS	129

THE MULTIPLICITY OF WORLDS OF OTHERS	139

THE AUTUMNAL CITY	155

Notes	161

Bibliography	185

Index	199

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About the author (1995)

DAMIEN BRODERICK is a Fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.

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Title	Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction Popular Fictions Series Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction, Damien Broderick Rewriting Histories
Author	Damien Broderick
Edition	illustrated
Publisher	Routledge, 1995
ISBN	0415097886, 9780415097888
Length	197 pages
Subjects	Social Science › Anthropology › Cultural Literary Criticism / General Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural

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