The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction

✍ Scribed by Delany, Samuel R.; Cheney, Matthew;

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 275 KB
• Edition: Rev. ed
• Category: Fiction
• City: Middletown
• ISBN: 0819572462

✦ Synopsis

An indispensable work of science fiction criticism revised and expanded.;Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prefaces and Acknowledgments; Ethical Aesthetics, An Introduction by Matthew Cheney; 1. About 5,750 Words; 2. Critical Methods / Speculative Fiction; 3. Quarks; 4. Thickening the Plot; 5. Faust and Archimedes; 6. Alyx; 7. Prisoners' Sleep; 8. Letter to the Symposium on "Women In Science Fiction"; 9. To Read The Dispossessed; 10. A Fictional Architecture That Manages Only with Great Difficulty Not Once to Mention Harlan Ellison; Appendixes; A. Midcentury; B. Letter to a Critic; Index.

✦ Subjects

Science fiction -- Technique