Across the Wounded Galaxies
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analysis
author interviews
authors
Bruce Sterling
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criticism
cyberpunk
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fiction
Gene Wolf
genre
interviews
Joanna Russ
Larry McCaffery
literary criticism
New Wave
Octavia Butler
postmodernism
Samuel Delany
science fiction
SF
speculative fiction
thinkers
Thomas Disch
Ursula Le Guin
William Burroughs
William Gibson
writers
Product details
- ISBN 9780252061400
- Weight: 426g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 1991
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Modern science fiction writers have long inhabited a dimension far removed from the comfortable realms of filmic space opera franchises and Dr. Who. Too often lurking along the margins of literature are some of the most intelligent, imaginative, and outrageous writing talents of our day. These interviews by legendary critic and SF proponent Larry McCaffery journeys into the minds and psyches of ten iconic writers whose works influenced the evolution of science fiction. Authors like Octavia Butler, William Gibson, Thomas Disch, Ursula Le Guin, and Bruce Sterling discuss New Wave, hard versus soft SF, and the viability of the genre as a means of suggesting political, radical, and sexual agendas. As these writers speak candidly about their works, backgrounds, and aesthetic impulses, it becomes clear that the issues on their minds and in their fiction are central to contemporary life and art.
Larry McCaffery is a literary critic and editor, and a retired professor of English and comparative literature. His many books include Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction and Some Other Frequency: Interviews with Innovative American Authors.
