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Entropy Exhibition (Routledge Revivals) - Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction (Paperback)
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Entropy Exhibition (Routledge Revivals) - Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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When first published in 1983 The Entropy Exhibition was the first
critical assessment of the literary movement known as 'New Wave'
science fiction. It examines the history of the New Worlds magazine
and its background in the popular imagination of the 1960s, traces
the strange history of sex in science fiction and analyses
developments in stylistic theory and practice. Michael Moorcock
edited and produced the magazine New Worlds from 1964 to 1973.
Within its pages he encouraged the development of new kinds of
popular writing out of the genre of science fiction, energetically
reworking traditional themes, images and styles as a radical
response to the crisis of modern fiction. The essential paradox of
the writing lay in its fascination with the concept of 'entropy' -
the universal and irreversible decline of energy into disorder.
Entropy provides the key to both the anarchic vitality of the
magazine and to its neglect by critics and academics, as well as
its connection with other cultural experiments of the 1960s. The
Fiction of the New Worlds writers was not concerned with far future
and outer space, but with the ambiguous and unstable conditions of
the modern world. Detailed attention is given to each of the three
main contributors to the New Worlds magazine - Michael Moorcock,
Brian Aldiss and J.G. Ballard. Moorcock himself is more commonly
judged by his commercial fantasy novels than by the magazine he
supported with them, but here at last the balance is redressed: New
Worlds emerges as nothing less than a focus and a metaphor for many
of the transformations of English and American literature in the
past two decades.
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