The History of the Science-fiction MagazineLiverpool University Press, 2000 - 507 páginas 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 |
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... field . But it would also be true to say that Campbell's most significant period of influence was over by the end of the 1940s . Thereafter an expanding market , with editors , writers and readers only too aware of the ' atomic age ...
... field . But it would also be true to say that Campbell's most significant period of influence was over by the end of the 1940s . Thereafter an expanding market , with editors , writers and readers only too aware of the ' atomic age ...
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... field . This was the debate that raged , and one that inevitably had two opposing sides . There were those who were concerned that the field had only been liberated in the last decade but was now in danger of closing in on itself again ...
... field . This was the debate that raged , and one that inevitably had two opposing sides . There were those who were concerned that the field had only been liberated in the last decade but was now in danger of closing in on itself again ...
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... field , and that if the attention fostered interest amongst a wider circle of students and teachers , the field would grow . But their main concern was that all too few teachers had a sufficiently wide appreciation of the field to ...
... field , and that if the attention fostered interest amongst a wider circle of students and teachers , the field would grow . But their main concern was that all too few teachers had a sufficiently wide appreciation of the field to ...
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Goodbye to all That The Old Gateways | 1 |
All This and Elwood Too The Rival Gateways | 114 |
Small but Dangerous The Alternate Gateways | 233 |
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