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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... Worlds - would take his message on board . The first volume of the anthology New Worlds , which included a few reprints from earlier magazine issues that had been banned from full distri- bution and thus not readily available , ran a ...
... Worlds - would take his message on board . The first volume of the anthology New Worlds , which included a few reprints from earlier magazine issues that had been banned from full distri- bution and thus not readily available , ran a ...
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... Worlds 8 . In addition to the fiction there were assorted features . Charles Platt interviewed Alfred Bester in the fourth volume , and there was a review column by M. John Harrison in each issue , worked into the guise of an article to ...
... Worlds 8 . In addition to the fiction there were assorted features . Charles Platt interviewed Alfred Bester in the fourth volume , and there was a review column by M. John Harrison in each issue , worked into the guise of an article to ...
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... Worlds looked like it would be laid to rest . But it refused to die and would soon return in a most surprising form ... Worlds and perhaps Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions . Knight later declared , ' Orbit has never had anything to do ...
... Worlds looked like it would be laid to rest . But it refused to die and would soon return in a most surprising form ... Worlds and perhaps Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions . Knight later declared , ' Orbit has never had anything to do ...
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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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