Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction WritersUniversity of Illinois Press, 1990 - 267 páginas Modern science fiction writers have long inhabited a dimension far removed from the comfortable realms of filmic space opera franchises and Dr. Who. Too often lurking along the margins of literature are some of the most intelligent, imaginative, and outrageous writing talents of our day. These interviews by legendary critic and SF proponent Larry McCaffery journeys into the minds and psyches of ten iconic writers whose works influenced the evolution of science fiction. Authors like Octavia Butler, William Gibson, Thomas Disch, Ursula Le Guin, and Bruce Sterling discuss New Wave, hard versus soft SF, and the viability of the genre as a means of suggesting political, radical, and sexual agendas. As these writers speak candidly about their works, backgrounds, and aesthetic impulses, it becomes clear that the issues on their minds and in their fiction are central to contemporary life and art. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
William S Burroughs | 31 |
Octavia E Butler | 54 |
Samuel R Delany | 71 |
Disch | 105 |
William Gibson | 130 |
Ursula K Le Guin | 151 |
Joanna Russ | 176 |
Bruce Sterling | 211 |
Gene Wolfe | 233 |
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Términos y frases comunes
actually aesthetic alien American Artificial Kid artists aware Benford Bruce Sterling Burroughs characters computers course create critical cultural cyberpunk deal Delany develop Dhalgren everything example experience fantasy feel feminist Gene Wolfe genre going Gregory Benford Guin Hand of Darkness happened hard SF human idea images imagination influence intellectual interesting invent Islands issues Joanna Russ kind literary literature living look mainstream means metaphor motifs narrative Neuromancer never Neveryon Octavia Butler Patternist series person Philip K political postmodernism pretty problem readers realistic realized Samuel Delany Schismatrix science fiction seems sense sexual SF authors SF novel SF writers SF's simply social someone sort started story structure stuff sword-and-sorcery talk there's things trying Ursula Le Guin what's women words wrote
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Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction Jeff Prucher Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |