Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science FictionReading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre. |
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... Definitions A mythology of tomorrow Running the universe The catlike mrem At play in the fields of the word Sf after 19 ? Changing paradigms 2 GENERIC ENGINEERING Out of the pulps Science fiction's formulae How much change ? Uncanny and ...
... of science fiction 154 A definition of sf 155 Sf and the renovated novel 157 Strange attractors 158 Notes 159 Bibliography 180 Index 193 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Although portions of this book , somewhat modified , ix CONTENTS.
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Contents
NEW WORLD NEW TEXTS | 3 |
GENERIC ENGINEERING | 21 |
GENRE OR MODE? | 38 |
THE USES OF OTHERNESS | 49 |
READING THE EPISTEME | 64 |
DREAMS OF REASON AND UNREASON | 75 |
THE STARS MY DISSERTATION | 89 |
MAKING UP WORLDS | 103 |
23 | 125 |
SF AS A MODULAR CALCULUS | 128 |
THE MULTIPLICITY OF WORLDS OF OTHERS | 137 |
THE AUTUMNAL CITY | 153 |
Notes | 159 |
29 | 162 |
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