Metafiction

by Brian Attebery (Editor)

A very strong collection of essays (15), reviews (4), and an interview (Nicola Griffith, author of "Slow River," "Ammonite," "The Blue Place") all related to the Borgesian notion of "metafiction."

179 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1998

About the author

Brian Attebery is professor of English at Idaho State University and the editor of Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He edited The Norton Book of Science Fiction (1997) with Ursula K. Le Guin and Karen Joy Fowler and is the author of Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (2014) and Decoding Gender in Science Fiction (2002), among other books. In 2019 he was Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Fantasy Literature at the University of Glasgow.