Metafiction and narrative worlds in science fiction prism, mirror, lens Dillon, Amanda creator author. EBSCOhost text bibliography Electronic books. enk 2025 2025 monographic eng remote 1 online resource ( 192 pages) : illustrations. 'At Least You're Not Fictional': -- Words, Worlds, and John Scalzi's Redshirts -- 1 How to Build a World: -- Metafiction, Science Fiction, and Literary Experimentalism -- 2 Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater and Breakfast of Champions: -- Narrative Worlds in Science Fiction -- 3 Brian Aldiss's Frankenstein Unbound: -- The Writerly Science Fiction Text -- 4 Joanna Russ's Extra(Ordinary) People and We Who Are About To...: -- Temporal Narrative Framing and Self-Awareness -- 5 Narrating Alienness: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Untranslatability of Narrative Worlds in Changing Planes -- 6 'Prism, Mirror, Lens': Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren -- Some Concluding Propositions and Hypotheses. Amanda Dillon. Includes bibliographical references and index. Experimental fiction Fiction Technique Science fiction 20th century History and criticism Science fiction 21st century History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General Experimental fiction Fiction Technique Science fiction History and criticism 1900-1999 fast 2000-2099 fast PN3433.5 .D55 2025 809.38762 Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 87 9781836248910 1836248911 9781836248736 1836248733 9781836244868 22573/cats30020256 JSTOR http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=4258288 UKMGB 251014 20260325191319.3 in00005692019 eng