Strange Highways Reading Science Fantasy 1950 1967
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Strange Highways Reading Science Fantasy 1950 1967
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Author : John Boston
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2013-01-15
Strange Highways Reading Science Fantasy 1950 1967 written by John Boston and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Science Fantasy blends science fiction AND fantasy, so it tends to be bolder and more highly colored than pure science fiction. In the middle of the last century, the British magazine SCIENCE FANTASY created its own distinctive strains of fantasy narrative, most famously by such writers as Brian W. Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, John Brunner, Michael Moorcock, and Thomas Burnett Swann, among others. This book looks closely at the whole trajectory of that lost magazine, from its birth in 1950 through 1967, when it was briefly called (SF) Impulse. John Boston provides a brilliantly insightful and often every funny account of the rise, evolution, and final fall of SCIENCE FANTASY, its writers, and its quirky editors. Boston is joined by writer and critic Damien Broderick, adding his own waspish and nostalgic comments. This volume, the first of three dealing with the history and development of the major British SF magazines, is a compelling night journey into the past, where the future took a turn down paths not often explored. It's a trip not to be missed.
Strange Highways
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Author : John Boston
language : en
Publisher: Borgo Press
Release Date : 2012
Strange Highways written by John Boston and has been published by Borgo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Science Fantasy" blends science fiction AND fantasy, so it tends to be bolder and more highly colored than pure science fiction. In the middle of the last century, the British magazine SCIENCE FANTASY created its own distinctive strains of fantasy narrative, most famously by such writers as Brian W. Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, John Brunner, Michael Moorcock, and Thomas Burnett Swann, among others. This book looks closely at the whole trajectory of that lost magazine, from its birth in 1950 through 1967, when it was briefly called (SF) Impulse. John Boston provides a brilliantly insightful and often every funny account of the rise, evolution, and final fall of SCIENCE FANTASY, its writers, and its quirky editors. Boston is joined by writer and critic Damien Broderick, adding his own waspish and nostalgic comments. This volume, the first of three dealing with the history and development of the major British SF magazines, is a compelling night journey into the past, where the future took a turn down paths not often explored. It's a trip not to be missed.
The Cambridge Companion To The English Short Story
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Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-06
The Cambridge Companion To The English Short Story written by Ann-Marie Einhaus and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.
Building New Worlds 1946 1959
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Author : John Boston
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2013-02-13
Building New Worlds 1946 1959 written by John Boston and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-13 with Fiction categories.
Building New Worlds is a history of a pivotal decades-long episode in the birth and growth of today's science fiction. Enthralling and amusing, it's written with affection and wit. This is no dry, modishly theorized academic analysis. Nor is it a rah-rah celebration of the "Good Old Days." Here is a candid and astute reader's response to a magazine that, by today's standards, was often comically bad--but was also immensely important in its time, and improved, like the Little Engine (or maybe Starship) That Could. New Worlds is best remembered today as the fountainhead of the New Wave of audacious experimental SF in the second half of the 1960s, under editor Michael Moorcock. But these first pioneering issues, from 1946-59, were edited by the magazine’s founder, John "Ted" Carnell (1912-72). Carnell was a pillar of the old-style UK SF establishment, but gamely supportive of innovators--most famously, of the brilliant J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, and John Brunner, whose early work he nurtured. The story of how New Worlds got started, survived, and got better is essential to the history of the genres of the fantastic in the UK--and indeed, the world. And huge fun to read. Watch for the companion volumes, New Worlds: Before the New Wave, and Strange Highways, dealing with New World's companion magazine, Science Fantasy.
New Worlds Before The New Wave 1960 1964
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Author : John Boston
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2013-04-30
New Worlds Before The New Wave 1960 1964 written by John Boston and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-30 with Fiction categories.
In the mid-1960s, British science fiction and fantasy were convulsed by the "New Wave." This movement emerged from the SF magazines edited by John Carnell. Such brilliant NEW WORLDS and SCIENCE FANTASY writers as J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, John Brunner, and Michael Moorcock heralded the rise of this new kind of fantastic fiction. John Boston and Damien Broderick's concluding volume of their critical trilogy examines the history and development of these important magazines--and the fiction that they championed. By the end of this period (1964), Carnell had set the stage for that major development in UK science fiction--the new wave adventures of the transformed NEW WORLDS, under the editorship of Moorcock--and had himself shifted gear into the next mode of SF publishing as editor of the paperback anthology series, New Writings in SF. Boston and Broderick's series will become the definitive critical histories of these important British magazines. Complete with indices of names and titles cited.
Xeno Fiction More Best Of Science Fiction
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Author : Damien Broderick
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2013-08-05
Xeno Fiction More Best Of Science Fiction written by Damien Broderick and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-05 with Fiction categories.
Science fiction loves strangeness. It relishes oddities, even when it piles on fear and dystopian loathing. The technical term for a fascination with the strange and alien is xenophilia, just as the term for a terror of the strange is xenophobia. At its core, then, science fiction is...Xeno Fiction. So science fiction seeks out the strange, roams far from home in space and time, looks with avid eagerness upon the ways of the Others, human or alien. It participates, in brilliantly lighted imagination, in their strange lives. In this second gathering from Van Ikin's critical journal, Science Fiction: A Review of Speculative Literature, writers of the alien are investigated with wit and insight. G. Travis Regier follows the Other into its own home, accompanying those experts in the alien, C. J. Cherry and Samuel R. Delany. In the book's long key essay, Terry Dowling pursues the Art of Xenography as exemplified by Jack Vance's "General Culture" novels. Three expert commentators look into Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's postcolonial and postmodern frolics into alternative realities. And the Xeno fictions of Isaac Asimov, Greg Egan, Mary Gentle, Ursula K. Le Guin, Naomi Mitchison, Neal Stephenson, and Stanley Weinbaum are read as their road maps into the strange. Eleven revealing essays on speculative fiction by some of the best critics in the field.
Strange Highways
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Author : Dean Koontz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Strange Highways written by Dean Koontz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Horror tales categories.
In the stunning title story 'Strange Highways', a failed author returns to his hometown after many years to attend his father's funeral, only to find himself suddenly and inexplicably thrust back through time to relive a traumatic event from his past. One rain-swept Sunday night when he was twenty years old, on his way back to college after a weekend with his family, Joey Shannon took the wrong highway - and from that moment, nothing ever went right for him again. Now, exactly twenty years later, on another rain-swept night, Joey finds himself at the same crossroads, looking down the road never taken. Which is odd. Because that road no longer exists. A superhighway replaced it nearly twenty years ago, and the old state route - which had crossed a web of perpetually burning, abandoned coal mines - was condemned as too dangerous and was torn up. But now the highway is exactly as it was on that long-ago night, and when Joey turns on to it, he begins an eerie, terrifying journey toward a truth so dark and stunning that it will change everything he believes about himself, his past, and the nature of life.
Partners In Wonder
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Author : Eric Leif Davin
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2006
Partners In Wonder written by Eric Leif Davin and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
'Partners in Wonder' explores our knowledge of women and science fiction between 1936 and 1965. It describes the distinctly different form of science fiction that females produced, one that was both more utopian and more empathetic than that of their male counterparts.
The Cambridge Companion To American Science Fiction
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Author : Eric Carl Link
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-01-26
The Cambridge Companion To American Science Fiction written by Eric Carl Link and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.
Science Fiction Writers
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Author : Richard Bleiler
language : en
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Release Date : 1999
Science Fiction Writers written by Richard Bleiler and has been published by Gale Cengage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literature and science categories.
On science fiction authors