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Starboard wine : more notes on the language of science fiction /

"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 begi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Delany, Samuel R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press, ©2012.
Edición:Rev. ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Starboard Wine; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Starboard Wine, An Author's Introduction; Science Fiction and Difference: An Introduction to Starboard Wine; 1. The Necessity of Tomorrow(s); 2. Heinlein; 3. Some Presumptuous Approaches to Science Fiction; 4. Sturgeon; 5. Science Fiction and "Literature"-or, The Conscience of the King; 6. Russ; 7. An Experimental Talk; 8. Disch, I; 9. Disch, II; 10. Dichtung und Science Fiction; 11. Three Letters to Science Fiction Studies; 1) A Letter from New York; 2) Another Letter from New York; 3) A Letter from Rome.
  • 12. Reflections on Historical ModelsIndex; About the Author.