Ursula K. Le Guin
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Her Earthsea fantasy novels — most signally, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), The Tombs of Atuan (1971), and The Farthest Shore (1972) — concern the education of a young wizard, and are recommended for those who […]
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Mad househusbands
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Read This PostFrank Herbert
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Alia, a telepathic four-year-old girl who, in the bestselling science fiction novel of all time, roams the battlefields of Arrakis slitting the throats of imperial stormtroopers, gained her powers in utero because her mother drank […]
Read This PostJohn 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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