ARTICLES ABOUT DAMIEN BRODERICK

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Formidable, talented, a prose stylist and a polymath, Damien Broderick has always been at the leading edge of Australian SF (which can stand for "science fiction" or, more widely, "speculative fiction"). Since 1964, the year he turned twenty, he has had a major impact as a writer. More recently he has emerged as an ambitious theorist and philosopher whose interest in SF is part of a larger concern with the boundaries and relationships of literature and science.

Ramona Koval in conversation with accomplished science fiction writer cultural theorist and science communicator Damien Broderick. His new book, the Last Mortal Generation, tells of the efforts being made towards immortality in today's laboratories and speculates on what kind of tomorrow we are in for.

Reading by Starlight is one of a comparatively small number of serious critical surveys of science fiction published by an academic publishing house. As such its treatment of the topic is quite general. For instance, despite its title, the book does not restrict itself to the presentation of a particular thesis on postmodern SF, to the exclusion of other forms of the genre. The breadth of the book's scope entails that its focus inevitably wanders, but it remains coherent and interesting throughout.

The same issue of Ibn Qirtaiba also contains an interview with Damien Broderick

IQ: Your book seems to be directed partly to academic readers and partly to fans - ideally, of course, to both. Many fans without a university education will be unfamiliar with the theory behind postmodernism and the objectives of its program. Do you think that such readers of postmodern SF novels receive an impoverished experience of them because of their ignorance of the movement's aims and assumptions?

Damien Broderick on Ozlit , Internet Site for Australian Literature
Includes several links to reviews of Broderick's books

One of Australia’s leading exponents of ‘speculative’ fiction, Broderick has been awarded Literature Board Writing Fellowships in 1980, 1984, 1990, and 1995. His work has been widely published and anthologised overseas and in Australia, and he has published many novels (dates below are Australian editions where applicable).

Damien Broderick, it is clear from these three very good books, has lovingly immersed himself in the larger ideas of science but not merely passively so. As a distinguished writer of science fiction his imagination has taken them up, worked over and through them, and spun them into tales of possible worlds.