The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: 1946-1955
Title | The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: 1946-1955 PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ashley |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Science fiction |
ISBN | 9780809280025 |
The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: 1936-1945
Title | The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: 1936-1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ashley |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Science fiction |
ISBN | 9780809280025 |
The History of the Science-fiction Magazine
Title | The History of the Science-fiction Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ashley |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 495 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1781382603 |
Mike Ashley's acclaimed history of science-fiction magazines comes to the 1980s with Science-Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990. This volume charts a significant revolution throughout science fiction, much of which was driven by the alternative press, and by new editors at the leading magazines. The period saw the emergence of the cyberpunk movement, and the drive for, what David Hartwell called, 'The Hard SF Renaissance', which was driven from within Britain. Ashley plots the rise of many new authors in both strands: William Gibson, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, John Kessel, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker in cyberpunk, and Stephen Baxter, Alistair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton, Neal Asher, Robert Reed, in hard sf. He also shows how the alternative magazines looked to support each other through alliances, which allowed them to share and develop ideas as science-fiction evolved.
The History of the Science Fiction Magazine
Title | The History of the Science Fiction Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ashley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Short stories, English |
ISBN |
The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: 1926-1935
Title | The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: 1926-1935 PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ashley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Science fiction |
ISBN | 9780809278428 |
The History of the Science-fiction Magazine
Title | The History of the Science-fiction Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Ashley |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 527 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1846310032 |
This third volume in Mike Ashley's four-volume study of the science-fiction magazines focuses on the turbulent years of the 1970s, when the United States emerged from the Vietnam War into an economic crisis. It saw the end of the Apollo moon programme and the start of the ecology movement. This proved to be one of the most complicated periods for the science-fiction magazines. Not only were they struggling to survive within the economic climate, they also had to cope with the death of the father of modern science fiction, John W. Campbell, Jr., while facing new and potentially threatening opposition. The market for science fiction diversified as never before, with the growth in new anthologies, the emergence of semi-professional magazines, the explosion of science fiction in college, the start of role-playing gaming magazines, underground and adult comics and, with the success of Star Wars, media magazines. This volume explores how the traditional science-fiction magazines coped with this, from the
Science Fiction: Vision of Tomorrow?
Title | Science Fiction: Vision of Tomorrow? PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Hantula |
Publisher | Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2004-12-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780836839524 |
Compares what writers over the centuries have written about an imaginary future with the reality revealed by time.