9780819568847 - starboard wine: more notes on the language of science fiction de delany, samuel r (6 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condición: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Trade Paperback. A paperback copy in very good condition. Minor marginalia on a few pages. 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.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Very Good++ lightly rubbed and edgeworn trade paperback. A clean, lightly worn copy.

Octavo, pp. [i-ix] x [xi] xii-xix [xx-xxi] xxii-xxxv [xxxvi-xxxviii] [1] 2-246 [247: "About the Author"] [248-250: blank], printed wrappers. Second edition, revised. An updated edition of the 500-copy 1984 first edition, with new and revised essays. Trade paperback. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-49. A fine copy. (#177365).…

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. revised edition. 246 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.