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. 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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... Brian Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, Christine Brooke-Rose, Arthur C.Clarke, Samuel R.Delany, William Gibson, Fredric Jameson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vivian Sobchack, Darko Suvin, Michael Swanwick, Tzvetan Todorov and John Varley. Damien ...
... Brian Aldiss, Isaac Asimov, Christine Brooke-Rose, Arthur C.Clarke, Samuel R.Delany, William Gibson, Fredric Jameson, Kim Stanley Robinson, Vivian Sobchack, Darko Suvin, Michael Swanwick, Tzvetan Todorov and John Varley. Damien ...
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... Brian Aldiss , Isaac Asimov , Christine Brooke - Rose , Arthur C. Clarke , Samuel R. Delany , William Gibson , Fredric Jameson , Kim Stanley Robinson , Vivian Sobchack , Darko Suvin , Michael Swanwick , Tzvetan Todorov and John Varley ...
... Brian Aldiss , Isaac Asimov , Christine Brooke - Rose , Arthur C. Clarke , Samuel R. Delany , William Gibson , Fredric Jameson , Kim Stanley Robinson , Vivian Sobchack , Darko Suvin , Michael Swanwick , Tzvetan Todorov and John Varley ...
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... Brian Aldiss , Stanislaw Lem , George Turner and others are highly articulate about their positions as writers and readers . In particular , Delany is a striking example of an sf writer advancing both fictive and theoretical narratives ...
... Brian Aldiss , Stanislaw Lem , George Turner and others are highly articulate about their positions as writers and readers . In particular , Delany is a striking example of an sf writer advancing both fictive and theoretical narratives ...
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... Brian W. Aldiss . The field's most recent development is explicitly theorised by certain of its practitioners , especially Delany , who now forwards both fictive and theoretical narratives from an explicitly poststructuralist position ...
... Brian W. Aldiss . The field's most recent development is explicitly theorised by certain of its practitioners , especially Delany , who now forwards both fictive and theoretical narratives from an explicitly poststructuralist position ...
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... Brian Aldiss argued for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ) as the Ur - sf novel , a view which has prevailed widely without much acknowledgement , to Aldiss's public annoyance , that his was the case which established it ...
... Brian Aldiss argued for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ) as the Ur - sf novel , a view which has prevailed widely without much acknowledgement , to Aldiss's public annoyance , that his was the case which established it ...
Contents
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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 |
SF AS A MODULAR CALCULUS | 128 |
THE MULTIPLICITY OF WORLDS OF OTHERS | 137 |
THE AUTUMNAL CITY | 153 |
Notes | 159 |
Bibliography | 180 |
xi | 193 |
74 | 195 |
ALLOGRAPHY AND ALLEGORY | 117 |
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