Delany — The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
Book page: delany-jewel-hinged-jaw
From: Quotes batch 4
Edition: Berkeley, Dragon Press (1977)
On Language and Sci-Fi Cognition
“The corrective process that the reader of SF must use to decode the sentences is much more complex and depends on a much more varied set of linguistic expectations than that used by the reader of mundane fiction.” (p. 34)
On Critical Thinking
“Style is not a decoration of content; it is the very tool of thought that allows content to exist.” (p. 21)