Reading by Starlight (Kindle Edition)

by Damien Broderick (Author)

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Product Description
Including studies of leading science fiction and cyberpunk texts, Damier Broderick considers the characteristic writing, marketing and reception of sci-fi which distinguish it as a genre.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 296 KB
• Print Length: 224 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (March 14, 2007)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000OI0URQ
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #55,590 in Kindle Store (See Bestsellers in Kindle Store)

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hardly for everyone, but amazing for a few of you, July 26, 2003

By	Anthony D Ravenscroft (Santa Fe, NM United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction (Popular Fiction) (Paperback)

This is a stuffy, stodgy, & all in all difficult book, a mammoth dissertaion on a confluence of somewhat obscure subjects. That's why I knocked it down a star.

But, basically, it's also a lucid and frighteningly thorough study of what (for lack of a better term) I will call "literarily serious science fiction." It keeps slipping into a paean to the godhood of Samuel R Delany -- but since I would hardly be one to argue with that, this is hardly a black mark. (You *do* own at least one Delany novel... right? No? Bad puppy.)

In backhanded fashion, this book also forms a central node for attempts to define that horribly overworked & vague term from the 1990s, "postmodern."

Don't even try to read this unless you are Very Serious about Delany, modern literature, or science fiction -- preferably all three. But if that's you, then you need to read this book, probably four or five times.