Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination A Critical Companion
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
26.04.2022
Abbildungen
XI, 124 p. 1 illus.
Verlag
SpringerSeitenzahl
124
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/15.3/1.3 cm
Gewicht
259 g
Auflage
22001 Auflage 1st edition 2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-030-96945-5
In this comprehensive study of
The Stars My Destination
, D. Harlan Wilson makes a case for the continued significance of Alfred Bester’s SF masterwork, exploring its distinctive style, influences, intertextuality, affect, and innovation as well as its extensive metafictional properties. In
Stars
, Bester established himself as a son 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’s study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor of psychological interiority, literary experimentation, and adult themes. The book combines close-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 our benighted world. With scholarly lucidity and precision, Wilson shows us that
Stars
pointed the way to what we have (un)become.
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