This is stylistic, pragmatic and sociolinguistic analysis of the
language of sci-fi and fantasy. The language of science fiction,
and of fantasy, has a steep challenge: that of the creation of
other worlds, societies and characters that are alien to us in
diverse and fundamental ways, but still compelling and knowable.
This exciting book steps away from the issues of race, gender and
politics that have saturated sci-fi and fantasy criticism. Rather,
it challenges two widely held but poorly substantiated beliefs
circulating about science fiction and fantasy - that they are:
written in plain and unremarkable prose; and apt to present
characters that are flat types rather than fully realised
individuals. Mandala draws on traditional syntactic categories of
stylistic analysis as well as the relatively more recent pragmatic
and sociolinguistic paradigms such that the original analyses here
take our understanding of these two genres beyond the usual
confines, to consider how language is used to draw alternative
words, represent the far future and distant past, and create
psychologically believable characters. Covering both British and
American fiction and television, this is a wide-ranging and
perceptive book.
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