Dangerous visions and new worlds : radical science fiction, 1950 to 1985 /
Dangerous visions and new worlds : radical science fiction, 1950 to 1985 /
edited by Andrew Nette, Iain McIntyre.
- 216 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes index.
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: An Introduction / Imagining New Worlds: Sci-Fi and the Vietnam War / Sextrapolation in New Wave Science Fiction / Radioactive Nightmares: Nuclear War in Science Fiction / On Earth the Air Is Free: The Feminist Science Fiction of Judith Merril / Women and Children First! John Wyndham and Second-Wave Feminism / Bursting through the Boundaries: New Worlds Magazine / Vast Active Living (Possibly) Insane System: Paranoia and Anti authoritarianism in the Work of Philip K. Dick / Flying Saucers and Black Power: Joseph Denis Jackson's 1967 Insurrectionist Novel The Black Commandos / Doomwatchers: Calamity and Catastrophe in UK Television Novelizations / The Energy Exhibition: Radical Science Fiction in the 1960s / "We change-and the whole world changes": Samuel R. Delany's Heavenly Breakfast in Context / Flawed Ancients, New Gods, and Interstellar Missionaries: Religion in Postwar SF / Speculative Fuckbooks: The Brief Life of Essex House, 1968-1969 / God Does, Perhaps? The Unlikely New Wave SF of R.A. Lafferty / The Tasty Worlds of Jerry Cornelius / Hank Lopez's Afro-6 / "The Hell with Heroes": Rebellion and Responsibility in Roger Zelazny's Damnation Alley / Eco-Death: Catastrophe and Survival in 1960s and 1970s Science Fiction/ Stepford Wives and Supercomputers The Science Fiction of Ira Levin / "Houston, we've had a problem": Technology, Mental Breakdown and the Science Fiction of Barry Malzberg / The Stars My Destination: The Future According to Gay Adult Science Fiction Novels of the 1970s / Higher than a Rocket Ship: Drugs in SF / Freedom in the Mind: Louise Lawrence's Andra / Mick Farren: Fomenting the Rock Apocalypse / Green Deaths and Time Warriors: Doctor Who Serials and Novelizations in the 1970s / A New Wave in the East: The Strugatsky Brothers and Radical Sci-fi in Soviet Russia / The Future Is Going to Be Boring: The SF Present of J.G. Ballard / By Any Means Necessary: Revolution and Rebellion in 1960s and 1970s Science Fiction / Performative Gender and SF: The Strange but True Case of Alice Sheldon and James Tiptree Jr. / Coming of Age between Apocalypses: Young Adult Fiction and the End of the World / Crowded Worlds and False Dawns: 1970s Dystopian Science Fiction / Cosmic Bond, Super Lover: William Bloom's Qhe! Series / Feminist Future: Time Travel in Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time / Who Are the Beasts? Animals in Science Fiction / The Moons of Le Guin and Heinlein / Black Star: The Life and Work of Octavia Butler / Herland: The Women's Press and Science Fiction / Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette -- Rjurik Davidson -- Rob Latham -- Andrew Nette -- Kat Clay -- David Curcio -- Iain McIntyre -- Erica L. Satifka -- Iain McIntyre -- Iain McIntyre -- Hicolas Tredell -- Daniel Shank Cruz -- Iain McIntyre -- Rebecca Baumann -- Nick Mamatas -- Andrew Nette -- Brian Greene -- Kelly Roberts -- Iain McIntyre -- Andrew Nette -- Andrew Nette -- Maitland McDonagh -- Iain McIntyre -- Andrew Nette -- Mike Stax -- Iain McIntyre -- Scott Adlerberg -- Cameron Ashley -- Andrew Nette -- Lucy Sussex -- Molly Grattan -- Andrew Nette -- Iain McIntyre -- Kirsten Bussiere -- Andrew Nette -- Donna Glee Williams -- Michael A. Gonzales -- Iain McIntyre.
In the period of major social change that spanned the 1950s through the 1970s, science fiction became an ideal vessel to illustrate a multifaceted upsurge of radical protest, with its focus on speculation, alternate worlds, and the future. Dangerous Visions and New Worlds details, celebrates, and evaluates how science fiction novels and authors depicted, interacted with, and were inspired by these cultural and political movements in America and Great Britain. It starts with progressive authors who rose to prominence in the conservative 1950s, challenging the era's narratives of technological breakthroughs and space-conquering male heroes, then moves through the 1960s, when authors shattered existing writing conventions and incorporated contemporary themes such as modern mass media culture, corporate control, state surveillance, the Vietnam War, and rising currents of counterculture, ecological awareness, feminism, sexual liberation, and Black Power. The 1970s, when the genre reflected the end of various dreams of the "long Sixties," is also explored along with the first half of the 1980s, which gave rise to new subgenres. --
9781629639321 162963932X 9781629638836 1629638838
GBC1E5111 bnb
020312139 Uk
Science fiction--History and criticism.
Social movements in literature.
Radicalism in literature.
Includes index.
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: An Introduction / Imagining New Worlds: Sci-Fi and the Vietnam War / Sextrapolation in New Wave Science Fiction / Radioactive Nightmares: Nuclear War in Science Fiction / On Earth the Air Is Free: The Feminist Science Fiction of Judith Merril / Women and Children First! John Wyndham and Second-Wave Feminism / Bursting through the Boundaries: New Worlds Magazine / Vast Active Living (Possibly) Insane System: Paranoia and Anti authoritarianism in the Work of Philip K. Dick / Flying Saucers and Black Power: Joseph Denis Jackson's 1967 Insurrectionist Novel The Black Commandos / Doomwatchers: Calamity and Catastrophe in UK Television Novelizations / The Energy Exhibition: Radical Science Fiction in the 1960s / "We change-and the whole world changes": Samuel R. Delany's Heavenly Breakfast in Context / Flawed Ancients, New Gods, and Interstellar Missionaries: Religion in Postwar SF / Speculative Fuckbooks: The Brief Life of Essex House, 1968-1969 / God Does, Perhaps? The Unlikely New Wave SF of R.A. Lafferty / The Tasty Worlds of Jerry Cornelius / Hank Lopez's Afro-6 / "The Hell with Heroes": Rebellion and Responsibility in Roger Zelazny's Damnation Alley / Eco-Death: Catastrophe and Survival in 1960s and 1970s Science Fiction/ Stepford Wives and Supercomputers The Science Fiction of Ira Levin / "Houston, we've had a problem": Technology, Mental Breakdown and the Science Fiction of Barry Malzberg / The Stars My Destination: The Future According to Gay Adult Science Fiction Novels of the 1970s / Higher than a Rocket Ship: Drugs in SF / Freedom in the Mind: Louise Lawrence's Andra / Mick Farren: Fomenting the Rock Apocalypse / Green Deaths and Time Warriors: Doctor Who Serials and Novelizations in the 1970s / A New Wave in the East: The Strugatsky Brothers and Radical Sci-fi in Soviet Russia / The Future Is Going to Be Boring: The SF Present of J.G. Ballard / By Any Means Necessary: Revolution and Rebellion in 1960s and 1970s Science Fiction / Performative Gender and SF: The Strange but True Case of Alice Sheldon and James Tiptree Jr. / Coming of Age between Apocalypses: Young Adult Fiction and the End of the World / Crowded Worlds and False Dawns: 1970s Dystopian Science Fiction / Cosmic Bond, Super Lover: William Bloom's Qhe! Series / Feminist Future: Time Travel in Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time / Who Are the Beasts? Animals in Science Fiction / The Moons of Le Guin and Heinlein / Black Star: The Life and Work of Octavia Butler / Herland: The Women's Press and Science Fiction / Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette -- Rjurik Davidson -- Rob Latham -- Andrew Nette -- Kat Clay -- David Curcio -- Iain McIntyre -- Erica L. Satifka -- Iain McIntyre -- Iain McIntyre -- Hicolas Tredell -- Daniel Shank Cruz -- Iain McIntyre -- Rebecca Baumann -- Nick Mamatas -- Andrew Nette -- Brian Greene -- Kelly Roberts -- Iain McIntyre -- Andrew Nette -- Andrew Nette -- Maitland McDonagh -- Iain McIntyre -- Andrew Nette -- Mike Stax -- Iain McIntyre -- Scott Adlerberg -- Cameron Ashley -- Andrew Nette -- Lucy Sussex -- Molly Grattan -- Andrew Nette -- Iain McIntyre -- Kirsten Bussiere -- Andrew Nette -- Donna Glee Williams -- Michael A. Gonzales -- Iain McIntyre.
In the period of major social change that spanned the 1950s through the 1970s, science fiction became an ideal vessel to illustrate a multifaceted upsurge of radical protest, with its focus on speculation, alternate worlds, and the future. Dangerous Visions and New Worlds details, celebrates, and evaluates how science fiction novels and authors depicted, interacted with, and were inspired by these cultural and political movements in America and Great Britain. It starts with progressive authors who rose to prominence in the conservative 1950s, challenging the era's narratives of technological breakthroughs and space-conquering male heroes, then moves through the 1960s, when authors shattered existing writing conventions and incorporated contemporary themes such as modern mass media culture, corporate control, state surveillance, the Vietnam War, and rising currents of counterculture, ecological awareness, feminism, sexual liberation, and Black Power. The 1970s, when the genre reflected the end of various dreams of the "long Sixties," is also explored along with the first half of the 1980s, which gave rise to new subgenres. --
9781629639321 162963932X 9781629638836 1629638838
GBC1E5111 bnb
020312139 Uk
Science fiction--History and criticism.
Social movements in literature.
Radicalism in literature.