{"product_id":"science-fiction-rebels-the-story-of-the-science-fiction-magazines-from-1981-to-1990-the-history-of-the-science-fiction-magazine-volume-iv-9781781382608","title":"Science-Fiction Rebels: The Story of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMike Ashley's acclaimed history of science-fiction magazines comes to the 1980s with \u003ci\u003eScience Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990. \u003c\/i\u003eThis 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 and Rudy Rucker in cyberpunk, and Stephen Baxter, Alistair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton, Neal Asher and 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.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The information Mike Ashley has put together is really astonishing: researchers of the field, and anyone who’s interested in popular fiction of the period are going to find this book an immense help.' \u003cbr\u003eAndy Sawyer\u003cbr\u003e'Ashley has a skilled historian’s sense of proportion... he picks up on the rise of various themes in science fiction and notes the importance of the blurring of the lines between genres… his work focuses on some of the most well-known aspects of science fiction literature.'\u003cbr\u003e Gary K. Wolfe,\u003ci\u003e Locus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Ashley writes with skill, passion and insight. The excitement he feels for the genre is apparent on every page. The depth and breadth of the research is stunning, covering countries as diverse as Uruguay, Croatia, Finland – and even Mongolia, which had a pocketbook sf magazine between 1976 and 1990.'\u003cbr\u003e Mark Greener, \u003ci\u003eFortean Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Taken as a whole, Ashley’s ongoing history of the SF magazine is an astonishing achievement. This is vital work in uncovering and making available elements in the publishing history of SF that would otherwise be easily forgotten or neglected.’ \u003cbr\u003e Derek Johnston, \u003cem\u003e Fantastika Journal \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Science Fiction Rebels fills a niche but tremendous void in SF scholarship of 80s literary magazines and history [...] Ashley gives other scholars of SF magazines valuable insight to the world of editing SF in one of the world’s most eclectic decades. Ashley makes Science Fiction Rebels a scholarly must-have for research and editorial history within 80s SF.'B.L. King, \u003ci\u003eSFRA Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'[\u003cem\u003eScience Fiction Rebels\u003c\/em\u003e] is essential reading for anyone needing to make sense of a decade of competing obsessions and styles, complex emergent technologies and mounting financial pressures on publishers. Ashley has produced a fascinating chronicle, a piece of thorough and dazzling scholarship and an invaluable work of reference.' \u003cbr\u003e Andy Hedgecock, \u003cem\u003eFoundation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This fourth volume in Mike Ashley’s comprehensive chronology of the SF magazines offers more of what came before it: a breath-taking depth and breadth of SF knowledge written in clear, comprehensible prose by an experienced and capable writer of encyclopaedias and anthologies… these books represent a supreme effort of scholarship and history-making, and they will be an invaluable tool to academics and fans alike.’ John McLoughlin, \u003cem\u003eFafnir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Tables\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNote on Terminology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Before the Revolution: Bastion of Excellence\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: The First Revolution: Cyberpunk Days\u003cbr\u003e The McCarthy Years\u003cbr\u003e The Impact of Omni\u003cbr\u003e Cyberpunk Daze\u003cbr\u003e The Analog Dimension\u003cbr\u003e Dozois in Charge\u003cbr\u003e Amazing Rebirth\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: The First Interlude: The Dark Corners\u003cbr\u003e Twilight Zone\u003cbr\u003e Horror Struck\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: The Second Revolution: The British Hard-SF Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e Out of the Wilderness\u003cbr\u003e Interzone\u003cbr\u003e Beyond Interzone\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: The Second Interlude: Other Worlds\u003cbr\u003e Éire\u003cbr\u003e Canada\u003cbr\u003e Australia\u003cbr\u003e Far Corners\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: The Third Rebellion: The SF Underground\u003cbr\u003e SF Renegades\u003cbr\u003e Dangerous Pulphouse\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Postlude: Back to Basics\u003cbr\u003e Stuck on the Launch Pad\u003cbr\u003e Shared Worlds\u003cbr\u003e Small-Press Endeavours\u003cbr\u003e Magazine with a Mission\u003cbr\u003e A Qualified Success\u003cbr\u003e A Problem Shared … \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppendix 1: Non-English-Language Science-Fiction Magazines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppendix 2: Checklist of English-Language Science-Fiction Magazines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppendix 3: Directory of Magazine Editors and Publishers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppendix 4: Directory of Magazine Cover Artists\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAppendix 5: Schedule of Magazine Circulation Figures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAddenda and Corrigenda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50469968871767,"sku":"9781781382608","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781781382608.jpg?v=1744896970","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/science-fiction-rebels-the-story-of-the-science-fiction-magazines-from-1981-to-1990-the-history-of-the-science-fiction-magazine-volume-iv-9781781382608","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}