Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Delany, Samuel R.

Publication

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2012.

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Details

Description

xxxv, 246 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Delany, Samuel R
• Science fiction > History and criticism
• Science fiction > Technique

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Starboard wine, an author's introduction -- Science and fiction and difference : an introduction to Starboard wine / Matthew Cheney -- The necessity of tomorrow(s) -- Heinlein -- Some presumptuous approaches to science fiction -- Sturgeon -- Science fiction and "literature" -- or, the conscience of the king -- Russ -- An experimental talk -- Disch, I -- Disch, II -- Dichtung und science fiction -- Three letters to science fiction studies. A letter from New York -- Another letter from New York -- A letter from Rome -- Reflections on historical models.

ISBN

• 9780819568847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0819568848 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780819572943 (ebook)
• 0819572942 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2012006646

OCLC

• 760976192
• SCSB-12580599

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library