LEADER 03570nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910463324603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78138-798-2 010 $a1-78138-922-5 010 $a1-84631-779-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000279199 035 $a(EBL)1591021 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000818544 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12370167 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000818544 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10843284 035 $a(PQKB)10424738 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781846317798 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000128148 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1075992 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781387986 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1591021 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1075992 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10629227 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL878039 035 $a(OCoLC)827212682 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1591021 035 $a(OCoLC)867929521 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000279199 100 $a20121207d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSolar flares$b[electronic resource] $escience fiction in the 1970s /$fAndrew M. Butler 210 $aLiverpool $cLiverpool University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (723 p.) 225 1 $aLiverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies 225 0$aLiverpool science fiction texts and studies ;$v43 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78138-117-8 311 $a1-84631-834-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a10 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 330 $aScience fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as ""confused, self-involved, and stale."" The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf - on the one hand it aspired to be a serious form, addressing issues such as race, Vietnam, feminism, ecology and sexuality, on the other hand it broke box office records with Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien and Superman: The Movie. Across the political spectrum, writers perceived a series of invisible enemies: radicals addressed the ideological structur 410 0$aLiverpool science fiction texts and studies. 606 $aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aScience fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813.540915 700 $aButler$b Andrew M$0863418 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463324603321 996 $aSolar flares$92486431 997 $aUNINA