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In *Starboard Wine*, Samuel Delany explores the implications of his now-famous assertion that science fiction is *not* about the future. Rather, it *uses *the future as a means of talking about the present and its potentiality. By recognizing a text's specific "difference", we begin to see the quality of its particulars. Through riveting analyses of works by Joanna Russ, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, and Thomas M. Disch, Delany reveals critical strategies for reading that move beyond overwrought theorizing and formulaic thinking. Throughout, the author performs the kinds of careful inquiry and urgent speculation that he calls others to engage in.words : 113369

Who reads Starboard Wine : More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction?

Author

Delany, Samuel R.

Publisher

Ultramarine Publishing Company, Incorporated

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780911499070

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.54 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14