In Starboard Wine, Samuel R. 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.
- ISBN10 0911499075
- ISBN13 9780911499070
- Publish Date 1 December 1984
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Ultramarine Publishing Company
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 350
- Language English