Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1 The Ends of First Sf: Pioneers as Veterans
- 2 After the New Wave: After Science Fiction?
- 3 Beyond Apollo: Space Fictions after the Moon Landing
- 4 Big Dumb Objects: Science Fiction as Self-Parody
- 5 The Rise of Fantasy: Swords and Planets
- 6 Home of the Extraterrestrial Brothers: Race and African American Science Fiction
- 7 Alien Invaders: Vietnam and the Counterculture
- 8 This Septic Isle: Post-Imperial Melancholy
- 9 Foul Contagion Spread: Ecology and Environmentalism
- 10 Female Counter-Literature: Feminism
- 11 Strange Bedfellows: Gay Liberation
- 12 Saving the Family? Children's Fiction
- 13 Eating the Audience: Blockbusters
- 14 Chariots of the Gods: Pseudoscience and Parental Fears
- 15 Towers of Babel: The Architecture of Sf
- 16 Ruptures: Metafiction and Postmodernism
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1 The Ends of First Sf: Pioneers as Veterans
- 2 After the New Wave: After Science Fiction?
- 3 Beyond Apollo: Space Fictions after the Moon Landing
- 4 Big Dumb Objects: Science Fiction as Self-Parody
- 5 The Rise of Fantasy: Swords and Planets
- 6 Home of the Extraterrestrial Brothers: Race and African American Science Fiction
- 7 Alien Invaders: Vietnam and the Counterculture
- 8 This Septic Isle: Post-Imperial Melancholy
- 9 Foul Contagion Spread: Ecology and Environmentalism
- 10 Female Counter-Literature: Feminism
- 11 Strange Bedfellows: Gay Liberation
- 12 Saving the Family? Children's Fiction
- 13 Eating the Audience: Blockbusters
- 14 Chariots of the Gods: Pseudoscience and Parental Fears
- 15 Towers of Babel: The Architecture of Sf
- 16 Ruptures: Metafiction and Postmodernism
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Chapter
- Information
- Solar FlaresScience Fiction in the 1970s, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2012