I found a really badseriously really badcopy of this on the net It looks great nowbut dont open the hoodhamsters are running the thing Fun read though And if one of the authors is a favorite of yours essential The cover above shows the authors interviewed Modern science fiction writers inhabit a land far removed from the comfortably familiar realms of ET and Star Wars Lurking here in the suburbs of literature are some of the most intelligent fiercely imaginative and outrageous writing talents at work today Across the Wounded Galaxies probes the minds and psyches of 10 writers whose works have had a significant influence on the evolution of the genre over the past quartercentury As Larry McCaffery puts it While SF authors have been sifting through familiar SF elements and discovering new complexities and syntheses they have also been boldly exploring literary terrain where no authors have gone before The interviewees most of whom claim SF writing as a fulltime career discuss New Wave cyberpunk hard vs soft SF and the viability of science fiction as a means of suggesting political radical and sexual agendas Science fictions formal and thematic concerns are shown to be intimately related to other postmodern art forms As the authors speak candidly about their works their backgrounds and their aesthetic impulses it becomes clear that science fiction deserves serious attention and that the issues they examine are absolutely central to late20thcentury life and art

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