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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... Scithers's approach was clearly working and attracting a new and , to some extent , unaware readership . When the circulation figures came in for Asimov's over its first year , many were surprised at the scale of its popularity . Its ...
... Scithers's approach was clearly working and attracting a new and , to some extent , unaware readership . When the circulation figures came in for Asimov's over its first year , many were surprised at the scale of its popularity . Its ...
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... Scithers recalled : I talked with the manager of a comic - book store in Manhattan who happened to like Asimov's SF Adventure . He said he put a stack of each issue on the checkout counter the best conceivable place for - a magazine ...
... Scithers recalled : I talked with the manager of a comic - book store in Manhattan who happened to like Asimov's SF Adventure . He said he put a stack of each issue on the checkout counter the best conceivable place for - a magazine ...
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... Scithers could not contain his displeasure . The result was a parting of the ways . Scithers was given notice to quit with effect from the end of December 1981. The last issue bearing his name as editor was dated 15 February 1982. Scithers ...
... Scithers could not contain his displeasure . The result was a parting of the ways . Scithers was given notice to quit with effect from the end of December 1981. The last issue bearing his name as editor was dated 15 February 1982. Scithers ...
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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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