The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction

Samuel R. Delany

ISBN 10: 0425038521 / ISBN 13: 9780425038529

Published by Berkley Windhover, 1978

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
• Publisher: Berkley Windhover
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0425038521
• ISBN 13: 9780425038529
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Used - Acceptable
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Synopsis

An insider's view of science fiction. Brilliant, humorous, ironic and lyrical, The Jewel-Hinged Jaw is a working writer's highly personal account of science fiction as an art - as a business - and as a lifelong obsession with the nature of "reality". One of the most influential SF authors in the genre, Delany discusses not only his own work, but the most important works of his colleagues - Disch, Le Guin, Russ, Zelazny, Heinlein - the handful of giants who have made science fiction the liveliest and most imaginative field in modern literature.

Review

Science Fiction Studies"

-Delany's first work of non-fiction, The Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction, remains a benchmark of sf criticism thirty-three years after its initial publication in 1977. ... Extensively revised and reissued in 2009, JHJ has become even sronger, containing twelve essays in ten chapters and two appendixes.---Isiah Lavender, Science Fiction Studies

"Delany's first work of non-fiction, The Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction, remains a benchmark of sf criticism thirty-three years after its initial publication in 1977. ... Extensively revised and reissued in 2009, JHJ has become even sronger, containing twelve essays in ten chapters and two appendixes."--Isiah Lavender, Science Fiction Studies

Delany's first work of non-fiction, The Jewel Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction, remains a benchmark of sf criticism thirty-three years after its initial publication in 1977. ... Extensively revised and reissued in 2009, JHJ has become even sronger, containing twelve essays in ten chapters and two appendixes.--Isiah Lavender "Science Fiction Studies" (11/1/2010 12:00:00 AM)