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  1. Transformations
    the story of the science-fiction magazines from 1950 to 1970 : The history of the science-fiction magazine, volume II
    Author: Ashley, Mike
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    This is the second of three volumes which chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. The first volume Time Machines traced the development of the sf magazine from its earliest days and the creation of the... more

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    This is the second of three volumes which chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. The first volume Time Machines traced the development of the sf magazine from its earliest days and the creation of the first specialist magazine, Amazing Stories. Transformations takes up the story to reveal a turbulent period that was to witness the extraordinary rise and fall and rise again of science. Britain’s foremost sf historian, Mike Ashley charts the sf boom years in the wake of the nuclear age that was to see the ‘The Golden Age’ of Science Fiction with the emergence of magazines such as Galaxy, Startling Stories and Fantastic, as well as authors like Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Frank Herbert. He then goes on to explore the bust years of 1954-1960 followed by the renaissance in the 1960s led by the new wave of British authors like Michael Moorcock and J.G. Ballard and the rise in interest of fantasy fiction, encouraged by Lord of the Rings and the Conan books of Robert E. Howard. Transformations concludes with an examination of the new found interest in sf magazines during the late 1960s and the incredibly influential roles Star Treck , the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and, above all, the first manned Moon landing played in transforming the sf magazine

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 30
    Subjects: Science fiction / Periodicals / History; Science fiction / Publishing / Great Britain / History / 20th century; Science fiction, English / History and criticism; Science fiction / Publishing / United States / History / 20th century; Science fiction, American / History and criticism
    Scope: 1 online resource (ix, 410 pages)
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  2. The time machines, Volume 1
    the story of the science-fiction pulp magazines from the beginning to 1950 : The history of the science-fiction magazine
    Author: Ashley, Michael
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Originally conceived as a trilogy, this is the first of five volumes that chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. This first volume looks at the exuberant years of the pulp magazines. It traces the... more

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    Originally conceived as a trilogy, this is the first of five volumes that chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. This first volume looks at the exuberant years of the pulp magazines. It traces the growth and development of the science fiction magazines from when Hugo Gernsback launched the very first, Amazing Stories, in 1926 through to the birth of the atomic age and the death of the pulps in the early 1950s. These were the days of the youth of science fiction, when it was brash, raw and exciting: the days of the first great space operas by Edward Elmer Smith and Edmond Hamilton, through the cosmic thought variants by Murray Leinster, Jack Williamson and others to the early 1940s when John W. Campbell at Astounding did his best to nurture the infant genre into adulthood. Under him such major names as Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, A. E. van Vogt and Theodore Sturgeon emerged who, along with other such new talents as Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke, helped create modern science fiction. For over forty years magazines were at the heart of science fiction and this book considers how the magazines, and their publishers, editors and authors influenced the growth and perception of this fascinating genre

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 24
    Subjects: Science fiction, American / History and criticism; Literature publishing / English-speaking countries / History / 20th century; Science fiction, English / History and criticism; Science fiction / Periodicals / History
    Scope: 1 online resource (xi, 300 pages)
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  3. Gateways to forever
    the story of the science-fiction magazines from 1970 to 1980 : the History of the science-fiction magazine, volume III
    Author: Ashley, Mike
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    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... more

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    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. The market for science fiction diversified as never before, with the growth in new anthologies, the emergence of semi-professional magazines, the explosion of science fiction in college, the start of role-playing gaming magazines, underground and adult comics and, with the success of Star Wars, media magazines. This volume explores how the traditional science-fiction magazines coped with this, from the death of Campbell to the start of the major popular science magazine Omni and the first dreams of the Internet

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781846313172
    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 34
    Subjects: Geschichte; Science fiction / Periodicals / History; Science fiction, English / History and criticism; Science fiction, American / History and criticism
    Scope: 1 online resource (xix, 507 pages)
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  4. The history of the science-fiction magazine, Volume 4, Science fiction rebels : the story of the science-fiction magazines from 1981 to 1990
    Author: Ashley, Michael
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Mike Ashley's acclaimed history of science-fiction magazines comes to the 1980s with Science-Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990. This volume charts a significant revolution throughout science fiction, much of... more

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    Mike Ashley's acclaimed history of science-fiction magazines comes to the 1980s with Science-Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990. This volume charts a significant revolution throughout science fiction, much of which was driven by the alternative press, and by new editors at the leading magazines. The period saw the emergence of the cyberpunk movement, and the drive for, what David Hartwell called, 'The Hard SF Renaissance', which was driven from within Britain. Ashley plots the rise of many new authors in both strands: William Gibson, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, John Kessel, Pat Cadigan, Rudy Rucker in cyberpunk, and Stephen Baxter, Alistair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton, Neal Asher, Robert Reed, in hard sf. He also shows how the alternative magazines looked to support each other through alliances, which allowed them to share and develop ideas as science-fiction evolved

     
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    ISBN: 9781781384404
    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 54
    Subjects: Geschichte; Science fiction / Periodicals / History
    Scope: 1 online resource (xxi, 473 pages)
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