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In the mid-1960s, British science fiction and fantasy were
convulsed by the "New Wave." This movement emerged from the SF
magazines edited by John Carnell. Such brilliant NEW WORLDS and
SCIENCE FANTASY writers as J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, John
Brunner, and Michael Moorcock heralded the rise of this new kind of
fantastic fiction. John Boston and Damien Broderick's concluding
volume of their critical trilogy examines the history and
development of these important magazines--and the fiction that they
championed. By the end of this period (1964), Carnell had set the
stage for that major development in UK science fiction--the new
wave adventures of the transformed NEW WORLDS, under the editorship
of Moorcock--and had himself shifted gear into the next mode of SF
publishing as editor of the paperback anthology series, New
Writings in SF. Boston and Broderick's series will become the
definitive critical histories of these important British magazines.
Complete with indices of names and titles cited.
Building New Worlds is a history of a pivotal decades-long episode
in the birth and growth of today's science fiction. Enthralling and
amusing, it's written with affection and wit. This is no dry,
modishly theorized academic analysis. Nor is it a rah-rah
celebration of the "Good Old Days." Here is a candid and astute
reader's response to a magazine that, by today's standards, was
often comically bad--but was also immensely important in its time,
and improved, like the Little Engine (or maybe Starship) That
Could. New Worlds is best remembered today as the fountainhead of
the New Wave of audacious experimental SF in the second half of the
1960s, under editor Michael Moorcock. But these first pioneering
issues, from 1946-59, were edited by the magazine's founder, John
"Ted" Carnell (1912-72). Carnell was a pillar of the old-style UK
SF establishment, but gamely supportive of innovators--most
famously, of the brilliant J. G. Ballard, Brian W. Aldiss, and John
Brunner, whose early work he nurtured. The story of how New Worlds
got started, survived, and got better is essential to the history
of the genres of the fantastic in the UK--and indeed, the world.
And huge fun to read. Watch for the companion volumes, New Worlds:
Before the New Wave, and Strange Highways, dealing with New World's
companion magazine, Science Fantasy.
"Science Fantasy" blends science fiction AND fantasy, so it tends
to be bolder and more highly colored than pure science fiction. In
the middle of the last century, the British magazine SCIENCE
FANTASY created its own distinctive strains of fantasy narrative,
most famously by such writers as Brian W. Aldiss, J. G. Ballard,
John Brunner, Michael Moorcock, and Thomas Burnett Swann, among
others. This book looks closely at the whole trajectory of that
lost magazine, from its birth in 1950 through 1967, when it was
briefly called (SF) Impulse. John Boston provides a brilliantly
insightful and often every funny account of the rise, evolution,
and final fall of SCIENCE FANTASY, its writers, and its quirky
editors. Boston is joined by writer and critic Damien Broderick,
adding his own waspish and nostalgic comments. This volume, the
first of three dealing with the history and development of the
major British SF magazines, is a compelling night journey into the
past, where the future took a turn down paths not often explored.
It's a trip not to be missed.
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John Boston, Santa Clara Valley Historical Society
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