期刊全称 | Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination | 期刊简称 | A Critical Companion | 影响因子2023 | D. Harlan Wilson | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Makes a case for this iconic novel’s distinction.Suggests different approaches to Stars, especially in terms of its dominant tropes.Examines the turn from Golden Age science fiction to postmodern scie | 学科分类 | Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .In this comprehensive study of .The Stars My Destination., D. Harlan Wilson makesa case for the continued significance of Alfred Bester’s SF masterwork, exploringits distinctive style, influences, intertextuality, affect, and innovation as well asits extensive metafictional properties. In .Stars., Bester established himself as ason of the pulp-SF and high-modernist writers that preceded him and a forefather to the New Wave and cyberpunk movements that followed his lead. Wilson’sstudy depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit ofthe genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor of psychologicalinteriority, literary experimentation, and adult themes. The book combinesclose-readings of the novel with broader concerns about contemporary media,technoculture, and the current state of SF itself. In Wilson’s view, SF is a moribund artform, and .Stars .foresaw the inevitable science fictionalization of ourbenighted world. With scholarly lucidity and precision, Wilson shows us that .Stars .pointed the way to what we have (un)become. . | Pindex | Book 2022 |
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