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Starboard Wine : More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction by Delany, Samuel R. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Starboard Wine : More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction about?
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
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- 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
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