Transrealist Fiction

Writing in the Slipstream of Science

Damien Broderick

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GREENWOOD PRESS
30 June 2000

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. Transrealism is also related to slipstream writing, another category introduced into studies of speculative fiction to account for texts that seem to follow trajectories mapped by the huge body of science fiction accumulated in the last century, while retaining a central interest in traditional literary strategies.

This book examines a variety of work from the transrealist perspective, something that has not been done previously. It emphasizes the texts of Philip K. Dick and Rucker himself, while it additionally engages the texts of such slipstream writers as Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, and John Barth. It places its argument against the antihumanist trend in science fiction and builds comparisons with more traditional varieties of science fiction works.

By: Damien Broderick
Imprint: GREENWOOD PRESS
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: No. 90
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 478g
ISBN: 9780313311215
ISBN 10: 0313311218
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 30 June 2000
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science

Broderick treks the slippery slopes -- a brilliant analyst of metafiction, transrealism, slip-stream, and the rest of the postmodern landscape. -Karen Jay Fowler, author of Sarah Canary and The Sweetheart Season