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Starboard Wine: More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction

By Samuel R. Delany , Matthew Cheney

Book information

Publisher
Wesleyan
Year
2012
ISBN
0819568848, 9780819568847
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
909 kB (930690 bytes)
Edition
Revised
Pages
288\289
Time added
2015-10-06 20:42:52

Description

In Starboard Wine, Samuel R. Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is not about the future. Rather, it uses the future as a means of talking about the present and its potentiality. By recognizing a text’s specific “difference,” we begin to see the quality of its particulars. Through riveting analyses of works by Joanna Russ, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, and Thomas M. Disch, Delany reveals critical strategies for reading that move beyond overwrought theorizing and formulaic thinking. Throughout, the author performs the kinds of careful inquiry and urgent speculation that he calls others to engage in.

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