Transrealist Fiction: Writing in the Slipstream of Science

by Damien Broderick

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313311218
• ISBN13: 9780313311215
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.6"