Format:
1 Online-Ressource(XI, 124 p. 1 illus.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2022.
ISBN:
9783030969462
Series Statement:
Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
Content:
1. Introduction -- 2. Synopsis -- 3. Cyberpunk Previsions and Literary Influences -- 4. The Frankenstein Riff -- 5. Architectures of Psyche, Power and Patriarchy -- 6. Speaking in Gutter Tongues -- 7. Coda. .
Content:
In this comprehensive study of The Stars My Destination, D. Harlan Wilson makes a case for the continued significance of Alfred Bester’s SF masterwork, exploring its distinctive style, influences, intertextuality, affect, and innovation as well as its extensive metafictional properties. In Stars, Bester established himself as a son of the pulp-SF and high-modernist writers that preceded him and a forefather to the New Wave and cyberpunk movements that followed his lead. Wilson’s study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor of psychological interiority, literary experimentation, and adult themes. The book combines close-readings of the novel with broader concerns about contemporary media, technoculture, and the current state of SF itself. In Wilson’s view, SF is a moribund artform, and Stars foresaw the inevitable science fictionalization of our benighted world. With scholarly lucidity and precision, Wilson shows us that Stars pointed the way to what we have (un)become. D. Harlan Wilson is an American novelist, playwright, editor, critic, and Professor of English at the Lake Campus of Wright State University, USA. He is the author of over 30 book-length works of fiction and nonfiction.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030969455
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030969479
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030969486
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030969455
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030969479
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030969486
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-96946-2
