Dangerous visions and new worlds : radical science fiction, 1950 to 1985 / edited by Andrew Nette and Iain McIntyre.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nette, Andrew, editor, contributor.

McIntyre, Iain, 1970- editor, contributor.

Cruz, Daniel Shank, 1980- contributor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction--History and criticism--20th century.

Science fiction.

Social movements in literature.

Radicalism in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 216 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2021]

Summary:

In the period of major social change that spanned the 1950s through the 1970s, science fiction became an ideal vessel to illustrate a multifaceted upsurge of radical protest, with its focus on speculation, alternate worlds, and the future. Dangerous Visions and New Worlds details, celebrates, and evaluates how science fiction novels and authors depicted, interacted with, and were inspired by these cultural and political movements in America and Great Britain. It starts with progressive authors who rose to prominence in the conservative 1950s, challenging the era's narratives of technological breakthroughs and space-conquering male heroes, then moves through the 1960s, when authors shattered existing writing conventions and incorporated contemporary themes such as modern mass media culture, corporate control, state surveillance, the Vietnam War, and rising currents of counterculture, ecological awareness, feminism, sexual liberation, and Black Power. The 1970s, when the genre reflected the end of various dreams of the "long Sixties," is also explored along with the first half of the 1980s, which gave rise to new subgenres. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: An Introduction / Andrew Nette

Imagining New Worlds: Sci-Fi and the Vietnam War / Rjurik Davidson

Sextrapolation in New Wave Science Fiction / Rob Latham

Radioactive Nightmares: Nuclear War in Science Fiction / Andrew Nette

On Earth the Air Is Free: The Feminist Science Fiction of Judith Merril / Kat Clay

Women and Children First! John Wyndham and Second-Wave Feminism / David Curcio

Bursting through the Boundaries: New Worlds Magazine / Iain Mclntyre

Vast Active Living (Possibly) Insane System: Paranoia and Antiauthoritarianism in the Work of Philip K. Dick / Erica L. Satifka

Flying Saucers and Black Power: Joseph Denis Jackson's 1967 Insurrectionist Novel The Black Commandos / Iain McIntyre

Doomwatchers: Calamity and Catastrophe in UK Television Novelizations / Iain McIntyre

The Energy Exhibition: Radical Science Fiction in the 1960s / Nicolas Tredell

"We change

-and the whole world changes": Samuel R. Delany's Heavenly Breakfast in Context / Daniel Shank Cruz

Flawed Ancients, New Gods, and Interstellar Missionaries: Religion in Postwar SF / Iain McIntyre

Speculative Fuckbooks: The Brief Life of Essex House, 1968

1969 / Rebecca Baumann

God Does, Perhaps? The Unlikely New Wave SF of R.A. Lafferty / Nick Mamatas

The Tasty Worlds of Jerry Cornelius / Andrew Nette

Hank Lopez's Afro-6 / Brian Greene

"The Hell with Heroes": Rebellion and Responsibility in Roger Zelazny's Damnation Alley / Kelly Roberts

Eco-Death: Catastrophe and Survival in 1960s and 1970s Science Fiction / Iain McIntyre

Stepford Wives and Supercomputers: The Science Fiction of Ira Levin / Andrew Nette

"Houston, we've had a problem": Technology, Mental Breakdown and the Science Fiction of Barry Malzberg / Andrew Nette

The Stars My Destination: The Future According to Gay Adult Science Fiction Novels of the 1970s / Maitland McDonagh

Higher than a Rocket Ship: Drugs in SF / Iain McIntyre

Freedom in the Mind: Louise Lawrence's Andra / Andrew Nette

Mick Farren: Fomenting the Rock Apocalypse / Mike Stax

Green Deaths and Time Warriors: Doctor Who Serials and Novelizations in the 1970s / Iain McIntyre

A New Wave in the East: The Strugatsky Brothers and Radical Sci-fi in Soviet Russia / Scott Adlerberg

The Future Is Going to Be Boring: The SF Present of J.G. Ballard / Cameron Ashley

By Any Means Necessary: Revolution and Rebellion in 1960s and 1970s Science Fiction / Andrew Nette

Performative Gender and SF: The Strange but True Case of Alice Sheldon and James Tiptree Jr. / Lucy Sussex

Coming of Age between Apocalypses: Young Adult Fiction and the End of the World / Molly Grattan

Crowded Worlds and False Dawns: 1970s Dystopian Science Fiction / Andrew Nette

Cosmic Bond, Super Lover: William Bloom's Qhe! Series / Iain McIntyre

Feminist Future: Time Travel in Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time / Kirsten Bussiere

Who Are the Beasts? Animals in Science Fiction / Andrew Nette

The Moons of Le Guin and Heinlein / Donna Glee Williams

Black Star: The Life and Work of Octavia Butler / Michael A. Gonzales

Herland: The Women's Press and Science Fiction / Iain McIntyre.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 211-216).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781629639321

162963932X

9781629638836

1629638838

OCLC:

1268131153