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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... first collection of stories at 20 , has published eight novels and holds a PhD in the semiotics of science , literature and science fiction . This One 2KWO - LH3 - SBRO Series editors : Tony Bennett POPULAR FICTIONS SERIES Professor of.
... first collection of stories at 20 , has published eight novels and holds a PhD in the semiotics of science , literature and science fiction . This One 2KWO - LH3 - SBRO Series editors : Tony Bennett POPULAR FICTIONS SERIES Professor of.
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... novel Strange attractors Notes Bibliography Index 117 119 120 121 122 123 125 128 129 130 131 132 134 137 138 140 142 143 144 146 148 153 154 155 157 158 159 180 193 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Although portions of this book , somewhat modified ...
... novel Strange attractors Notes Bibliography Index 117 119 120 121 122 123 125 128 129 130 131 132 134 137 138 140 142 143 144 146 148 153 154 155 157 158 159 180 193 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Although portions of this book , somewhat modified ...
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... usually to ends ( ' discoveries ' , ' findings ' ) established well in advance.9 Kim Stanley Robinson , one of today's finest sf writers and critics , makes a similar point rather drolly in his novel of spatial xiv INTRODUCTION.
... usually to ends ( ' discoveries ' , ' findings ' ) established well in advance.9 Kim Stanley Robinson , one of today's finest sf writers and critics , makes a similar point rather drolly in his novel of spatial xiv INTRODUCTION.
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Postmodern Science Fiction Damien Broderick. a similar point rather drolly in his novel of spatial , psychological and sociological exploration , Red Mars : ' The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the ...
Postmodern Science Fiction Damien Broderick. a similar point rather drolly in his novel of spatial , psychological and sociological exploration , Red Mars : ' The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the ...
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... novel marking the high - point of his early work in 1967. Chapter 9 shows that this novel is itself an allegory of writing and reading sf , and constitutes an essay in ' writing the other ' ( which I dub ' allography ' ) . The second is ...
... novel marking the high - point of his early work in 1967. Chapter 9 shows that this novel is itself an allegory of writing and reading sf , and constitutes an essay in ' writing the other ' ( which I dub ' allography ' ) . The second is ...
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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