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Starboard Wine-More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction # Revised edition by Samuel R. Delany

✍ Scribed by Delany, Samuel R

Book ID: 108528879
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Weight: 206 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780819568847

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✦ Synopsis

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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