Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction - Brossura

Broderick, Damien

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ISBN 10: 0415097894 ISBN 13: 9780415097895

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1994

Riassunto

Including studies of leading science fiction and cyberpunk texts, Damier Broderick considers the characteristic writing, marketing and reception of sci-fi which distinguish it as a genre.

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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. Damien Broderick is an award-winning freelance writer who published his first collection of stories as an undergraduate, has since written eight SF novels, and recently completed a PhD in the semiotics of SF writing.

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0415097894
• ISBN 13: 9780415097895
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 216