The jewel-hinged jaw
Subtitle: notes on the language of science fiction
By: Samuel R. Delany.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Middletown, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780819568847
Subjects: Delany, Samuel R; Science fiction -- History and criticism; Science fiction -- Technique
Table of contents: title: Ethical aesthetics, an introduction / by Matthew Cheney; title: About 5,750 words; title: Critical methods/speculative fiction; title: Quarks; title: Thickening the plot; title: Faust and Archimedes; title: Alyx; title: Prisoners' sleep; title: Letter to the symposium on "Women in science fiction"; title: To read the dispossessed; title: A fictional architecture that manages only with great difficulty not once to mention Harlan Ellison.