Tag: sf
John Brunner
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The popularity of apocalyptic fiction in the Sixties (1964-73), it has been suggested, indicates that SF writers had become bored and suspicious of utopian idylls promising that ameliorative reforms could right modern civilization’s manifold wrongs; […]
Read This PostPostmodernists: 1924-33
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Those born from 1924-33 are nearly impervious to Middlebrow’s discourse.
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New Gods: 1914-23
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The New Gods are stronger, faster, and smarter than other generations.
Read This PostPartisan Middlebrow
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High-, low-, no-, and hilobrow members of the Partisan Generation include: Albert Camus, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Clement Greenberg (whose 1939 Partisan Review essay, “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” and 1953 Commentary essay, “The Plight of Our Culture,” are […]
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Partisans: 1904-13
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“My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice.”
Read This PostChina Miéville
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The precise definition of “New Weird” (a recent avant-garde literary movement seeking to update a moribund Fantasy/SF genre) remains elusive, but the works of British author CHINA MIÉVILLE (born 1972) simultaneously fit and subvert the […]
Read This PostEdgar Rice Burroughs
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He helped free science fiction from 19th-century (or any) values.
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