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

Delany, Samuel R.

ISBN 10: 081956883X / ISBN 13: 9780819568830

Published by Wesleyan University Press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081956883X
• ISBN 13: 9780819568830
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Samuel R. Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw appeared originally in 1977, and is now long out of print and hard to find. The impact of its demonstration that science fiction was a special language, rather than just gadgets and green-skinned aliens, began reverberations still felt in science fiction criticism. This edition includes two new essays, one written at the time and one written about those times, as well as an introduction by writer and teacher Matthew Cheney, placing Delany's work in historical context. Close textual analyses of Thomas M. Disch, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roger Zelazny, and Joanna Russ read as brilliantly today as when they first appeared. Essays such as "About 5,750 Words" and "To Read The Dispossessed" first made the book a classic; they assure it will remain one.

About the Author

SAMUEL R. DELANY is award-winning author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, most recently Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. He lives in New York City.