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Science fiction has its origins alongside literary modernism but developed its characteristic generic style in a different direction for most of its history. More recently, science fiction has increasingly converged stylistically with mainstream literary writing, adopting some of its patterns particularly around the articulation of consciousness and perspective. However, the genre-basis of science fiction means that it is likely that readers will generate different effects even from similar stylistic patterns, in encounters with science fiction compared with non-sf. This article explores these functions of stylistic variation in some contemporary science fiction works. It argues that stylistic experimentalism in science fiction is in principle iconic of the world being constructed, rather than being an arbitrary compositional matter.

The Iconicity of Style in Contemporary Science Fiction