Starboard wine : more notes on the language of science fiction / Samuel R. Delany.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delany, Samuel R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction--History and criticism.

Science fiction.

Science fiction--Technique.

Delany, Samuel R.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2012.

Summary:

The long-awaited reissue of a classic work of criticism - revised and expanded. 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.

Contents:

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 Models

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780819572943 (ebook)

9780819568847 (pbk.)

OCLC:

854968541