Transrealist fiction : writing in the slipstream of science / Damien Broderick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broderick, Damien.

Series:

Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no. 90.

Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, 0193-6875 ; no. 90

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Science fiction.

Science fiction--Authorship.

Fantastic, The, in literature.

Realism in literature.

Reality in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Transrealist writing treats immediate perceptions in a fantastic way, according to science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker, who originated the term. In the expanded sense argued in this book, it also intensifies imaginative fiction by writing the fantastic from the standpoint of richly personalized experience. Transrealism is also related to slipstream writing, another category introduced into studies of speculative fiction to account for texts that seem to follow trajectories mapped by the huge body of science fiction accumulated in the last century, while retaining a central interest in traditional literary strategies. This book examines a variety of work from the transrealist perspective, something that has not been done previously. It emphasizes the texts of Philip K. Dick and Rucker himself, while it additionally engages the texts of such slipstream writers as Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, and John Barth. It places its argument against the antihumanist trend in science fiction and builds comparisons with more traditional varieties of science fiction works.

Contents:

Cover

TRANSREALIST FICTION

Contents

Introduction: Beyond Imagination

DEALING WITH DEATH

THE VOICES OF SPACETIME

TRUTH IN ADVERTISING

NOTES

1 Signs Fiction

THE REAL THING

COPPING THE SATIRE PLEA

STORIES: JUST SO

A MATTER OF TASTE

THE THEORY OF THEORY

LEARNING HOW TO SEE

A DOG IN MIND

TEXT AS PSEUDOTELEPATHY

2 Realism and Reality

SCIENCE AND/OR FICTION

TRANSREALISM

PUNK AND CIRCUMSTANCE

INVENTING WORLDS

3 Science Fiction's Crazy Prose

SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING OLD

THE MISSING MATTER PROBLEM

POLISH NOTATION

MECHANISMS OF DESIRE

WHY PEOPLE DISLIKE SCIENCE FICTION

4 The Death and Deconstruction of Science Fiction

THE FREQUENTLY ANNOUNCED DEATH OF SCIENCE FICTION

A CALCULUS AT GOD

NEW CASES OF CONSCIENCE

LAMBS AND LIONS

MUSIC OF THE SPHERES

SO IT GOES

ANTI-BODHISATTVAS

DOUBLES

INVERSIONS

WADING THE SLIPSTREAM

5 Fictions in the Slipstream

EARLY SLIPSTREAM

DADA

SLIPSTREAM/TRANSREALISM

FROM EARTH TO CYBERIA

THE ATROCITY EXPEDITION

LOST IN THE BARTH-HOUSE

MORE PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION

THE LANDSCAPE OF LACK

6 Terrible Angels: Science Fiction and the Singularity

THE RUSH INTO POSTHISTORY

ZONES AND POWERS

EXPLORERS OF THE SPIKE

COMEDY OR TRAGEDY?

THE ROAD TO XANADU

GEOGRAPHIES OF THE INCONCEIVABLE

7 Transreality: Living What You Write

THE AUTHOR IN THE TEXT

HUMAN, ANTIHUMAN

THE NEUROLOGY OF THE NUMINOUS

EASY TRAVEL TO OTHER PLANETS

8 Rudy Rucker and the Future of Transrealism

LIFE AS A FRACTAL IN HILBERT SPACE

NOT EVERYTHING IS TRANSREALIST

SELF-FASHIONING

IF YOU ASK, GOD WILL HELP YOU

ON AN ENDLESS ROLL

WHERE TWO OR THREE ARE GATHERED

AT THE CORE

WHY, AFTER ALL, TRANSREALISM?.

SUMMING UP

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-184) and index.

ISBN:

9798216027324

9780313003165

0313003165

OCLC:

179140633