Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction (Popular Fiction)

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

Book Description:

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 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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