Anatomy of Wonder, The, 4th Ed., by Barron, Neil, ed.

One of the best and most interesting parts of my SF collection is my non-fiction and reference section. Since the 1960's, with the advent of the New Wave literary sub movement within the genre, SF has become pretty heavily criticized. I believe that it was because SF moved so much closer to mainstream fiction at that point. Both SF and mainstream literature in the 60's were concerned with inner space, psychology, drug use, etc., so it makes sense that the genre would begin attracti[…]

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