Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science

Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science
ISBN-10
0313311218
ISBN-13
9780313311215
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
195
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Greenwood Publishing Group
Author
Damien Broderick

Description

Transrealist writing treats "immediate perceptions in a fantastic way," according to science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker, who originated the term. In the expanded sense argued in this book, it also intensifies imaginative fiction by writing the fantastic from the standpoint of richly personalized experience, as in the works of Philip K. Dick. This volume examines a variety of work from a transrealist perspective, including the writings of Dick, Rucker, Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, and John Barth.

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