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- Publication Name
- Solar Flares : Science Fiction in the 1970s
- Item Length
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- Liverpool University Press
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Series
- Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies Lup Ser.
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- Textbook
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- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Width
- 9.3in
- Item Weight
- 18.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 302 Pages
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Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as "confused, self-involved, and stale". The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf - on the one hand it aspired to be a serious form, addressing issues such as race, Vietnam, feminism, ecology and sexuality, on the other hand it broke box office records with Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien and Superman: The Movie. Beginning with chapters on the First sf and New Wave authors who published during the 1970s, Solar Flares examines the ways in which the genre confronted a new epoch and its own history, including the rise of fantasy, the sf blockbuster, children's sf, pseudoscience and postmodernism. It explores significant figures such as Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany and Octavia Butler. From Larry Niven's Ringworld to Thomas M. Disch's On Wings of Song, from The Andromeda Strain to Flash Gordon and from Doctor Who to Buck Rogers, this book reclaims seventies sf writing, film and television - alongside music and architecture - as a crucial period in the history of science fiction.
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Liverpool University Press
ISBN-10
1781381178
ISBN-13
9781781381175
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Publication Name
Solar Flares : Science Fiction in the 1970s
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Series
Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies Lup Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
302 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.1in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
9.3in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
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Series Volume Number
43
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'Solar Flares can especially be recommended to teachers and students seeking more 'off-trail' fare than they will find on the shelves at Barnes.' Science Fiction Film and Television, Reviews 'The author's knowledge of the science fiction texts of the 1970s is absolutely compendious, covering not only the more mainstream sf writers of the 1970s but also some of the less well-known byways. Solar Flares constitutes a significant addition to sf scholarship.' Brian Baker, "A superb work of narrative reference."--Science Fiction Studies, Volume 40, 2013 Solar Flares can especially be recommended to teachers and students seeking more 'off-trail' fare than they will find on the shelves at Barnes."--Science Fiction Film and Television, "A superb work of narrative reference."--Science Fiction Studies, Volume 40, 2013 "The author's knowledge of the science fiction texts of the 1970s is absolutely compendious, covering not only the more mainstream sf writers of the 1970s but also some of the less well-known byways. Solar Flares constitutes a significant addition to sf scholarship."--Dr Brian Baker, University of Lancaster Solar Flares can especially be recommended to teachers and students seeking more 'off-trail' fare than they will find on the shelves at Barnes."--Science Fiction Film and Television, The author's knowledge of the science fiction texts of the 1970s is absolutely compendious, covering not only the more mainstream sf writers of the 1970s but also some of the less well-known byways. Solar Flares constitutes a significant addition to sf scholarship. Brian Baker, 'Solar Flares can especially be recommended to teachers and students seeking more 'off-trail' fare than they will find on the shelves at Barnes.' Science Fiction Film and Television 7.2
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Prologue 1. The Ends of First Sf: Pioneers as Veterans 2. After the New Wave: After Science Fiction? 3. Beyond Apollo: Space Fictions after the Moon Landing 4. Big Dumb Objects: Science Fiction as Self-Parody 5. The Rise of Fantasy: Swords and Planets 6. Home of the Extraterrestrial Brothers: Race and African American Science Fiction 7. Alien Invaders: Vietnam and the Counterculture 8. This Septic Isle: Post-Imperial Melancholy 9. Foul Contagion Spread: Ecology and Environmentalism 10. Female Counter-Literature: Feninism 11. Strange Bedfollows: Gay Liberation 12. Saving the Family: Children's Fiction 13. Eating the Audience: Blockbusters 14. Chariots of the Gods: Rseudoscience and Parental Fears 15. Towers of Babel: The Architecture of Sf 16. Ruptures: Metafiction and Postmodernism Epilogue Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2014
Topic
Science Fiction & Fantasy, General, Semiotics & Theory
Dewey Decimal
809.3876209047
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Literary Criticism
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