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Transrealist Fiction Writing in the Slipstream of Science
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Damien Broderick
ISBN: 0-313-31121-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31121-5
208 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 6/30/2000
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £91.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Transrealist writing treats immediate perceptions in a fantastic way, according to science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker, who originated the term. In the expanded sense argued in this book, it also intensifies imaginative fiction by writing the fantastic from the standpoint of richly personalized experience. Transrealism is also related to slipstream writing, another category introduced into studies of speculative fiction to account for texts that seem to follow trajectories mapped by the huge body of science fiction accumulated in the last century, while retaining a central interest in traditional literary strategies.

This book examines a variety of work from the transrealist perspective, something that has not been done previously. It emphasizes the texts of Philip K. Dick and Rucker himself, while it additionally engages the texts of such slipstream writers as Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, and John Barth. It places its argument against the antihumanist trend in science fiction and builds comparisons with more traditional varieties of science fiction works.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
    Signs Fiction
    Realism and Reality
    Science Fiction's Crazy Prose
    The Death and Deconstruction of Sf
    Fictions in the Slipstream
    Terrible Angels: Science Fiction and the Singularity
    Transreality: Living What You Write
    Rudy Rucker and the Future of Transrealism
    Bibliography
About the Author: DAMIEN BRODERICK is a Fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne./e He is the author of several award winning science fiction novels. In addition, he has published numerous articles and short stories on science fiction.
LCC Class: 809
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