Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction: 'Prism, Mirror, Lens'
Author:   Amanda Dillon
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   87
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Pages:   192
Publication Date:   02 December 2025
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Metafiction and Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction: 'Prism, Mirror, Lens'


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Author:   Amanda Dillon
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
Volume:   87
ISBN:  

9781836244868


ISBN 10:   183624486
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   02 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Introduction - 'At Least You're Not Fictional': Words, Worlds and John Scalzi's Redshirts (2012) How to Build a World: Metafiction, Science Fiction and Literary Experimentalism Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr Rosewater and Breakfast of Champions: Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction Brian Aldiss's Frankenstein Unbound: The Writerly Science Fiction Text Joanna Russ's (Extra)Ordinary People and We Who Are About To...: Temporal Narrative Framing and Self-Awareness Narrating Alienness: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Untranslatability of Narrative Worlds in Changing Planes 'Prism, Mirror, Lens': Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren Some Concluding Propositions and Hypotheses

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Amanda Dillon is a lecturer at the University of East Anglia. She works at the intersection of genre fiction, history, and narratology.

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