Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction

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Taylor & Francis, Dec 1, 1994 - Literary Criticism - 224 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.

About the author (1994)

Damien Broderick, author of The Architecture of Babel: Discourses of Literature and Science, is an award-winning writer who sold his first collection of stories at 20, has published eight novels and holds a PhD in the semiotics of science, literature and science fiction.

Bibliographic information

TitleReading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction
Popular Fictions Series
AuthorDamien Broderick
PublisherTaylor & Francis, 1994
ISBN0203993217, 9780203993217
Length224 pages
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Literary Criticism / General
  
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