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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463324603321

Autore

Butler Andrew M

Titolo

Solar flares [[electronic resource] ] : science fiction in the 1970s / / Andrew M. Butler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-78138-798-2

1-78138-922-5

1-84631-779-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (723 p.)

Collana

Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies

Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; ; 43

Disciplina

813.540915

Soggetti

Science fiction - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 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: Feminism11 Strange Bedfellows: Gay Liberation; 12 Saving the Family? Children's Fiction; 13 Eating the Audience: Blockbusters; 14 Chariots of the Gods: Pseudoscience and Parental Fears; 15 Towers of Babel: The Architecture of Sf; 16 Ruptures: Metafiction and Postmodernism; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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. Across the political spectrum, writers perceived a series of invisible enemies: radicals addressed the ideological structur