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Science Fiction Rebels : The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990 by Mike Ashley (2016, Hardcover)
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PublisherLiverpool University Press
ISBN-101781382603
ISBN-139781781382608
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Book TitleScience Fiction Rebels : the Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990
Number of Pages495 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicScience Fiction & Fantasy, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
GenreLiterary Criticism, History
AuthorMike Ashley
Book SeriesLiverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-296817
Reviews"The information Mike Ashley has put together is really astonishing: researchers of the field, and anyone who's interested in popular fiction of the period are going to fine this book an immense help." Andy Sawyer, University of Liverpool "Taken as a whole, Ashley's ongoing history of the SF magazine is an astonishing achievement. This is vital work in uncovering and making available elements in the publishing history of SF that would otherwise be easily forgotten or neglected." Derek Johnston, Fantastika Journal "Ashley has a skilled historian's sense of proportion... he picks up on the rise of various themes in science fiction and notes the importance of the blurring of the lines between genres... his work focuses on some of the most well-known aspects of science fiction literature." Gary K. Wolfe, Locus "Ashley writes with skill, passion and insight. The excitement he feels for the genre is apparent on every page. The depth and breadth of the research is stunning, covering countries as diverse as Uruguay, Croatia, Finland - and even Mongolia, which had a pocketbook sf magazine between 1976 and 1990." Mark Greener, Fortean Times, "The information Mike Ashley has put together is really astonishing: researchers of the field, and anyone who's interested in popular fiction of the period are going to fine this book an immense help." Andy Sawyer, University of Liverpool"Taken as a whole, Ashley's ongoing history of the SF magazine is an astonishing achievement. This is vital work in uncovering and making available elements in the publishing history of SF that would otherwise be easily forgotten or neglected." Derek Johnston, Fantastika Journal"Ashley has a skilled historian's sense of proportion... he picks up on the rise of various themes in science fiction and notes the importance of the blurring of the lines between genres... his work focuses on some of the most well-known aspects of science fiction literature." Gary K. Wolfe, Locus"Ashley writes with skill, passion and insight. The excitement he feels for the genre is apparent on every page. The depth and breadth of the research is stunning, covering countries as diverse as Uruguay, Croatia, Finland - and even Mongolia, which had a pocketbook sf magazine between 1976 and 1990." Mark Greener, Fortean Times"Science Fiction Rebels is essential reading for anyone needing to make sense of a decade of competing obsessions and styles, complex emergent technologies and mounting financial pressures on publishers. Ashley has produced a fascinating chronicle, a piece of thorough and dazzling scholarship and an invaluable work of reference." Andy Hedgecock, Foundation "This fourth volume in Mike Ashley's comprehensive chronology of the SF magazines offers more of what came before it: a breath-taking depth and breadth of SF knowledge written in clear, comprehensible prose by an experienced and capable writer of encyclopaedias and anthologies... these books represent a supreme effort of scholarship and history-making, and they will be an invaluable tool to academics and fans alike." John McLoughlin, Fafnir, Ashley writes with skill, passion and insight. The excitement he feels for the genre is apparent on every page. The depth and breadth of the research is stunning, covering countries as diverse as Uruguay, Croatia, Finland - and even Mongolia, which had a pocketbook sf magazine between 1976 and 1990. Mark Greener, Fortean Times, The information Mike Ashley has put together isreally astonishing: researchers of the field, and anyone who's interested inpopular fiction of the period are going to find this book an immense help., 'The information Mike Ashley has put together is really astonishing: researchers of the field, and anyone who's interested in popular fiction of the period are going to find this book an immense help.' Andy Sawyer, Ashley has a skilled historian's sense of proportion...he picks up on the rise of various themes in Science Fiction and notes the importance of the blurring of the lines between genres... his work focuses on some of the most well-known aspects of science fiction literature. Gary K. Wolfe, Locus, The information Mike Ashley has put together is really astonishing: researchers of the field, and anyone who's interested in popular fiction of the period are going to find this book an immense help. Andy Sawyer, "The information Mike Ashley has put together is really astonishing: researchers of the field, and anyone who's interested in popular fiction of the period are going to fine this book an immense help." Andy Sawyer, University of Liverpool "Taken as a whole, Ashley's ongoing history of the SF magazine is an astonishing achievement. This is vital work in uncovering and making available elements in the publishing history of SF that would otherwise be easily forgotten or neglected." Derek Johnston, Fantastika Journal "Ashley has a skilled historian's sense of proportion... he picks up on the rise of various themes in science fiction and notes the importance of the blurring of the lines between genres... his work focuses on some of the most well-known aspects of science fiction literature." Gary K. Wolfe, Locus "Ashley writes with skill, passion and insight. The excitement he feels for the genre is apparent on every page. The depth and breadth of the research is stunning, covering countries as diverse as Uruguay, Croatia, Finland - and even Mongolia, which had a pocketbook sf magazine between 1976 and 1990." Mark Greener, Fortean Times "Science Fiction Rebels is essential reading for anyone needing to make sense of a decade of competing obsessions and styles, complex emergent technologies and mounting financial pressures on publishers. Ashley has produced a fascinating chronicle, a piece of thorough and dazzling scholarship and an invaluable work of reference." Andy Hedgecock, Foundation, "The information Mike Ashley has put together is really astonishing: researchers of the field, and anyone who's interested in popular fiction of the period are going to fine this book an immense help." Andy Sawyer, University of Liverpool "Taken as a whole, Ashley's ongoing history of the SF magazine is an astonishing achievement. This is vital work in uncovering and making available elements in the publishing history of SF that would otherwise be easily forgotten or neglected." Derek Johnston, Fantastika Journal "Ashley has a skilled historian's sense of proportion... he picks up on the rise of various themes in science fiction and notes the importance of the blurring of the lines between genres... his work focuses on some of the most well-known aspects of science fiction literature." Gary K. Wolfe, Locus "Ashley writes with skill, passion and insight. The excitement he feels for the genre is apparent on every page. The depth and breadth of the research is stunning, covering countries as diverse as Uruguay, Croatia, Finland - and even Mongolia, which had a pocketbook sf magazine between 1976 and 1990." Mark Greener, Fortean Times "Science Fiction Rebels is essential reading for anyone needing to make sense of a decade of competing obsessions and styles, complex emergent technologies and mounting financial pressures on publishers. Ashley has produced a fascinating chronicle, a piece of thorough and dazzling scholarship and an invaluable work of reference." Andy Hedgecock, Foundation "This fourth volume in Mike Ashley's comprehensive chronology of the SF magazines offers more of what came before it: a breath-taking depth and breadth of SF knowledge written in clear, comprehensible prose by an experienced and capable writer of encyclopaedias and anthologies... these books represent a supreme effort of scholarship and history-making, and they will be an invaluable tool to academics and fans alike." John McLoughlin, Fafnir
Series Volume Number54
Volume NumberVol. 4
Table Of ContentList of Tables Preface Note on Terminology Acknowledgements Chronology Chapter 1: Before the Revolution: Bastion of Excellence Chapter 2: The First Revolution: Cyberpunk Days The McCarthy Years The Impact of Omni Cyberpunk Daze The Analog Dimension Dozois in Charge Amazing Rebirth Chapter 3: The First Interlude: The Dark Corners Twilight Zone Horror Struck Chapter 4: The Second Revolution: The British Hard-SF Renaissance Out of the Wilderness Interzone Beyond Interzone Chapter 5: The Second Interlude: Other Worlds Éire Canada Australia Far Corners Chapter 6: The Third Rebellion: The SF Underground SF Renegades Dangerous Pulphouse Chapter 7: Postlude: Back to Basics Stuck on the Launch Pad Shared Worlds Small-Press Endeavours Magazine with a Mission A Qualified Success A Problem Shared ... Chapter 8: Epilogue Appendix 1: Non-English-Language Science-Fiction Magazines Appendix 2: Checklist of English-Language Science-Fiction Magazines Appendix 3: Directory of Magazine Editors and Publishers Appendix 4: Directory of Magazine Cover Artists Appendix 5: Schedule of Magazine Circulation Figures Select Bibliography Addenda and Corrigenda Index
SynopsisFourth volume in Mike Ashley's acclaimed set on the history of science-fiction magazines. This volume looks at the 1980s., Mike Ashley's acclaimed history of science-fiction magazines comes to the 1980s with Science-Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990. This volume charts a significant revolution throughout science fiction, much of which was driven by the alternative press, and by new editors at the leading magazines. The period saw the emergence of the cyberpunk movement, and the drive for, what David Hartwell called, 'The Hard SF Renaissance', which was driven from within Britain. Ashley plots the rise of many new authors in both strands: William Gibson, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, John Kessel, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker in cyberpunk, and Stephen Baxter, Alistair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton, Neal Asher, Robert Reed, in hard sf. He also shows how the alternative magazines looked to support each other through alliances, which allowed them to share and develop ideas as science-fiction evolved., Mike Ashley's acclaimed history of science-fiction magazines comes to the 1980s with Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990. This volume charts a significant revolution throughout science fiction, much of which was driven by the alternative press, and by new editors at the leading magazines. The period saw the emergence of the cyberpunk movement, and the drive for what David Hartwell called 'The Hard SF Renaissance', which was driven from within Britain. Ashley plots the rise of many new authors in both strands: William Gibson, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, John Kessel, Pat Cadigan and Rudy Rucker in cyberpunk, and Stephen Baxter, Alistair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton, Neal Asher and Robert Reed in hard sf. He also shows how the alternative magazines looked to support each other through alliances, which allowed them to share and develop ideas as science fiction evolved.
LC Classification NumberPR830.S35
