| Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction Contributor(s): Broderick, Damien (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415097894 ISBN-13: 9780415097895 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Dewey: 813.087 |
| LCCN: 94009505 |
| Series: Popular Fictions Series |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.71 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |