Science Fiction in the Real World (Alternatives) - Softcover

Norman Spinrad (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809316714 ISBN 13: 9780809316717

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990

Synopsis

No ordinary critic, Norman Spinrad explicates, celebrates, and sometimes excoriates science fiction from the privileged perspective of an artist armed with intimate knowledge of the craft of fiction and even of the writers themselves.

In these 13 essays, Spinrad urges science fiction as a genre to reach its potential. He divides the essays—new works written specifically for this book combined with those that appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine—into five sections: "Literature and Genre: A Critical Overview," in which Spinrad establishes his critical standards; "Alternate Media: Visual Translations," a discussion of comic books and books made into movies; "Modes of Content: Hard SF, Cyberpunk, and the Space Visionaries"; "Psychopolitics and Science Fiction: Heroes—True and Otherwise"; and "Masters of the Form: Careers in Profile," discussions of Sturgeon, Vonnegut, Ballard, and Dick.

About this title

About the Author

Norman Spinrad is the author of "fifteen novels, about fifty short stories, and God knows how many magazine pieces." He has won the Jupiter Award and the Prix Apollo.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809316714
• ISBN 13: 9780809316717
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256