The Spike: How Our Lives Are Being Transformed By Rapidly Advancing Technologies

Science & Math

Damien Broderick

History & Philosophy

Tor Books

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.

Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science

Praeger

The White Abacus

THOUSANDS OF YEARS FROM NOW THE HUMAN ANIMAL IS STILL A BEASTNow there are two sentient races inhabiting the known universe: one as human as Adam. . .the other of robotic mind.They share the Earth in harmonious coexistence. But elsewhere, only those who age and war and die are permitted.On earth, a young human prince has befriended a being far different from himself. But usurpation and fratricide are calling them both to the royal youths embattled home planet--drawing them into a nest of treacherous family conspiracy and cruel, naked ambition where the enemy owns the armies, the power, and the very soul of the world. But the prince will have his revenge, though only ally stands at his side: a peace-loving creature of augmented intelligence in a place where he is am unwelcome stranger--a barbarous world where he is forbidden. . .and feared.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Avon/Eos

Avon Books, 1986. Paperback original. Time travel, a swashbuckling hero, lost cities, a dying sun. Broderick here completely rewrites and re-imagines his earlier work "Sorcerer's World" (1970).

The Black Grail

AVON.

Reading by Starlight explores the characteristics in the writing, marketing and reception of science fiction which distinguish it as a genre.Damien Broderick explores the postmodern self-referentiality of the sci-fi narrative, its intricate coded language and discursive `encyclopaedia'. He shows how, for perfect understanding, sci-fi readers must learn the codes of these imaginary worlds and vocabularies, all the time picking up references to texts by other writers.Reading by Starlight includes close readings of paradigmatic cyberpunk texts and writings by SF novelists and theorists including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Brian Aldiss, Patrick Parrinder, Kim Stanley Robinson, John Varley, Roger Zelazny, William Gibson, Fredric Jameson and Samuel R. Delaney.

Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction

United States

Routledge

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.

Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science Fiction (Popular Fiction)

Dreaming Dragons

Pocket

13 original stories, including: The Ballad of Bowsprit Bear's Stead, by Damien Broderick; Omens, by Carol Emshwiller; Touch the Earth, by Scott Sanders; The Other Magus, by Avram Davidson; Peek-a-Boom, by Sonya Dorman; Suzanne Delage, by Gene Wolfe; The Finger, by Naomi Mitchison; Barranca, King of the Tree Streets, by Lowry Pei; Thomas in Yahvestan, by George P. Elliott; The Vengeance of Hera, or Monogamy Triumphant, by Thomas M. Disch; Falling, by Raylyn Moore; Father Returns from the Mountain, by Luis Urrea; The Oracle, by M. J. Engh.

Edges

GENE WOLFE

Avram Davidson

Thomas M. Disch

Scott Sanders

Carol Emshwiller

M. J. Engh

Sonya Dorman

Pocket_Books

The Third Cat Story Megapack 25 Frisky Feline Tales, Old and New

Darrell Schweitzer

Kathryn Ptacek

A. R. Morlan

Mary A. Turzillo

Wildside Press LLC

Consciousness and Science Fiction (Science and Fiction)

Springer

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