Reading by starlight : postmodern science fiction

Summary: 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 novelist.

Record details

ISBN: 0415097886
ISBN: 0415097894
ISBN: 9780203993217
ISBN: 0203993217
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 197 pages)
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Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-192) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	pt. I. Modern science fiction. 1. New World, New Texts. 2. Generic Engineering. 3. Genre Or Mode? 4. The Uses of Otherness. 5. Reading the Episteme. 6. Dreams of Reason and Unreason. 7. The Stars My Dissertation -- pt. II. Postmodern science fiction. 8. Making Up Worlds. 9. Allography and Allegory. 10. SF as a Modular Calculus. 11. The Multiplicity of Worlds, of Others. 12. The Autumnal City.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.