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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... Galileo in September and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in December . With plans also in hand for a third new magazine , Cosmos , which went on sale on 4 March 1977 , the appearance of Heavy Metal ten days later , and the ...
... Galileo in September and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in December . With plans also in hand for a third new magazine , Cosmos , which went on sale on 4 March 1977 , the appearance of Heavy Metal ten days later , and the ...
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... Galileo's prize competition for that year's best story under 3,000 words , as judged by Poul Anderson . The winner was ' Django ' ( January 1978 ) by Harlan Ellison , a parable of the power of art over mortality . Ellison had written ...
... Galileo's prize competition for that year's best story under 3,000 words , as judged by Poul Anderson . The winner was ' Django ' ( January 1978 ) by Harlan Ellison , a parable of the power of art over mortality . Ellison had written ...
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... Galileo , on the other hand , showed what vast potential there was in a subscriber- only magazine and , had McCaffrey been able to sustain that , without the problems that new technology caused , Galileo would also have survived ...
... Galileo , on the other hand , showed what vast potential there was in a subscriber- only magazine and , had McCaffrey been able to sustain that , without the problems that new technology caused , Galileo would also have survived ...
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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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