Author: Damien Broderick
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: science, fiction, study, fantasy, contributions, slipstream, writing, transrealist
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-06-30
List price: $131.95
ISBN-10: 0313311218
ISBN-13: 9780313311215

Transrealist writing treats "immediate perceptions in a fantastic way," according to science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker, who originated the term. In the expanded sense argued in this book, it also intensifies imaginative fiction by writing the fantastic from the standpoint of richly personalized experience, as in the works of Philip K. Dick. This volume examines a variety of work from a transrealist perspective, including the writings of Dick, Rucker, Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, and John Barth.

Author: Damien Broderick
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: enlightenment, new, polymathy, minds, ferocious
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2005-04-22
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0809544733
ISBN-13: 9780809544738

Two centuries ago, the first Enlightenment failed when its dream of reason smashed into the passions and fury of stubborn humans. Without a deep, broad understanding of the world, the emerging Enlightenment was left floundering, its best impulses perverted into the bloody excess of the French Revolution. Arguably, its idealism and noble goals led directly, and shockingly, to the 20th century’s totalitarian nightmares. Now the 21st century is learning anew the Faustian hunger to know everything that can be known. But Enlightenment values of reason and tolerance, enriched by new knowledge,

Author: Damien Broderick
Publisher: Borgo Press
Keywords: fiction, science, dimensions
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 080950927X
ISBN-13: 9780809509270

Broderick draws upon his skills as both critic and novelist to analyze science fiction of the last two decades, and its earlier roots. The book proposes sf as a distinctive form of writing, the extreme narrative of difference, then closely reads authors such as John Barnes, Jamil Nasir, Wil McCarthy, Robert Grossbach and Poul Anderson. While concentrating on exciting work published in the USA and Britain, Broderick does not neglect his own country’s contributions, discussing sf by George Turner and other Australians. His critical voice is wry, entertaining and occasionally scath

Author: Damien Broderick
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: fiction, popular, science, postmodern, starlight, reading
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1994-12-21
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415097894
ISBN-13: 9780415097895

Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre. Damier 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 in

Author: Damien Broderick
Publisher: Borgo Press
Keywords: science, fiction, literature, century, first, strange, twenty, unleashing
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2009-08-20
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 1434457230
ISBN-13: 9781434457233

Novelist and scholar Damien Broderick, winner of awards for both, offers an exhilarating report on the state of science fiction at the start of this millennium. Broderick came of age during the psychedelic upheaval known as the New Wave. Forty years on, we’re in the era of the New Weird, the New Space Opera. Looking back and forward, Broderick reveals a new perspective on renewal, change, and the strange. Call the earliest epoch of modern science fiction the First Wave: from Verne and Wells to the rise of the war machines. Science fiction’s fabled "golden age," 1939-50, was the

Author: Marian Broderick
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: women, irish, wild
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2004-02-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0299195848
ISBN-13: 9780299195847

Writers, killers, nuns, patriots, artists, healers, pirates, politicians, entertainers, saints, courtesans, leaders, revolutionaries, lovers, warriors, witches, record-breakers, and eccentrics are among the eclectic roster of Irishwomen in this book. In times when women were expected to marry and have children, they traveled the world and sought out adventures. In times when women were expected to be seen and not heard, they spoke out against oppression and used every creative means available to express their ideas and beliefs. Marian Broderick provides us with a series of lively port

Author: James F. Broderick and Darren W. Miller
Publisher: CyberAge Books
Keywords: information, sites, web, news, prominent, source, critical, guide, consider
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0910965773
ISBN-13: 9780910965774

The famous slogan of one major TV news network, More people get their news ... than from any other source, now applies to the Internet. But where can you find the news you need, how can you gauge its veracity, and how can anyone keep up? The answers are in this unique book by a professor of journalism and a working reporter. Jim Broderick and Darren Miller have written an A to Z guide to the best and worst news and information sites, featuring 100 in-depth, critical reviews and a 4-star rating system. You ll discover dozens of reliable sites that meet your needs, learn what to expect before