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Gateways to Forever
Mike Ashley
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Description for Gateways to Forever
Paperback. Focuses on the turbulent years of the 1970s, when the United States emerged from the Vietnam War into an economic crisis. This title explores how the traditional science-fiction magazines coped with this crisis, ranging from the death of John W Campbell Jr, to the start of the science magazine "Omni", and the first dreams of the internet. Series: Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies. Num Pages: 528 pages, 7 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FL; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 790.
This third volume in Mike Ashley’s four-volume study of the science-fiction magazines focuses on the turbulent years of the 1970s, when the United States emerged from the Vietnam War into an economic crisis. It saw the end of the Apollo moon programme and the start of the ecology movement. This proved to be one of the most complicated periods for the science-fiction magazines. Not only were they struggling to survive within the economic climate, they also had to cope with the death of the father of modern science fiction, John W. Campbell, Jr., while facing new and potentially threatening opposition. ... Read more
This third volume in Mike Ashley’s four-volume study of the science-fiction magazines focuses on the turbulent years of the 1970s, when the United States emerged from the Vietnam War into an economic crisis. It saw the end of the Apollo moon programme and the start of the ecology movement. This proved to be one of the most complicated periods for the science-fiction magazines. Not only were they struggling to survive within the economic climate, they also had to cope with the death of the father of modern science fiction, John W. Campbell, Jr., while facing new and potentially threatening opposition. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Series
Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies
Number of Pages
527
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846310034
SKU
V9781846310034
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Ref
99-50
About Mike Ashley
Mike Ashley has specialised in the history of science fiction and fantasy for over fifty years. He is the author and editor of over 130 books that in total have sold more than a million copies worldwide. He received the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award in 2002 for Lifetime Achievement in the field of science-fiction scholarship.
Reviews for Gateways to Forever
This will undoubtedly form the definitive history of SF from the pulp to the paperback.
The Guardian
It is an amazing book, both for the enormous amount of information it summarizes, and for the quiet authority with which it does it.
Science Fiction Studies
The Guardian
It is an amazing book, both for the enormous amount of information it summarizes, and for the quiet authority with which it does it.
Science Fiction Studies