Review
The breadth of Broderick's sources is one of the most attractive aspects of this book.Choice
Book 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.
About the Author
DAMIEN BRODERICK is a Fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.
Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
SYNOPSIS
Studies how Philip K. Dick, Rudy Rucker, Kurt Vonnegut, and other writers have created works of transrealist fiction.
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