From Golden Age to the New Wave

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• From Golden Age to the New Wave 🔊

  John "Ticktockman" W. Campbell vs. Harlan "Harlequin" Ellison and Horselover "nicht-alle-Tassen-im-Schrank" Fat

  • is_parent The New Wave

    The New Wave (mid-1960s to late 1970s) was a literary movement that rejected Golden Age rationalism in favor of experimentation, psychology, and stylistic innov

    • is_parent Context & Precursors 🔒 ·

      **1950s–60s counterculture:** rise of youth rebellion, anti-establishment politics, and experimentation with altered consciousness. **LSD (discovered 1943, pop
    • is_parent Dangerous Visions 🔒 ·

      "Dangeours Visions" is a title of short-fiction anthology published in 1967. Edited by Harlan Ellison, DV assembled 33 brand-new stories — many pushing bo
    • is_parent Harlan Ellisson (1934-2018) 🔒 ·

      "Sci-Fi's Most Controversial Figure" bipolar disorder quite decorated: 8 Hugo Awards, 4 Nebula Awards, 5 Bram Stoker Awards, SFWA Grand Master anthologies: Dang
    • is_parent Occupation: Conscience 🔒 ·

      "My work is foursquare for chaos. I spend my life personally, and my work professionally, keeping the soup boiling. Gadfly is what they call you when you are no
  • is_parent The Golden Age 🔒

    The Golden Age of Science Fiction (roughly late 1930s to mid-1950s) was a period defined by technological optimism, clear rational problem-solving, and the beli

    • is_parent Astounding 🔒 ·

      **1926:** Hugo Gernsback launches *Amazing Stories*, defining “Sci-Fi” and creating the market. **1930:** *Astounding Stories* debuts under Clayton
    • is_parent Speculative Technologies 🔒 ·

      Heinlein’s **powered exoskeletons** in *“Waldo”* (1942) → modern robotic exosuits. Clarke’s **geostationary communication satellite
    • is_parent Hard Science Fiction 🔒 ·

      Hard science fiction is a mode of SF that prioritizes scientific accuracy, technological plausibility, and logical coherence. Its stories are built around const
  • is_parent The Story with 1000 camp-bells 🔒 ·

    Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987) mythographer who argued that all stories follow a shared “monomyth” of departure, initiation, return. His main work "T
  • is_parent Sci-Fi Community 🔒 ·

    **Awards:** Hugos (since **1953**, fan-voted), Nebulas (**1965**, writer-voted), Locus (**1971**), BSFA (**1970**), Clarke Award (**1987**)—markers of global S
  • is_parent Philip Kindred Dick (1928 - 1982) 🔊

    ultra-prolific (cca 45 novels, >120 short-stories) his twin sister Jane died when he was six weeks old first educated at Quaker schools, later at Berkeley sell

    • is_parent The Man in the High Castle (1962) 🔒 ·

      An Axis-dominated world with Berlin as the political and technological center. Rocketry and aerospace supremacy redefining global power after WWII. The chinese
    • is_parent The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) 🔒 ·

      Chew-Z as a gateway to layered, recursive realities. Palmer Eldritch as alien–demiurgic intruder with three stigmata. Corporate rivalry turning metaphysic
    • is_parent Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968) 🔒 ·

      A post-apocalyptic Earth emptied by nuclear fallout and mass extinction. Empathy as the defining human trait, tested through the Voigt–Kampff ritual. Rick
    • is_parent Ubik (1969) 🔒 ·

      Decaying reality sliding backward in time. Cryonic half-life: the dead still communicate. Jory as parasitic consciousness devouring worlds. Ubik as quasi-cosmic
    • is_parent A Scanner Darkly (1977) 🔒 ·

      Substance D splitting perception and selfhood. Surveillance turning protagonist into both watcher and watched. Erosion of personality into fragmented doubles. W
    • is_parent VALIS (1981) 🔒

      Theophany experienced as pink laser of information. VALIS as alien intelligence or Gnostic God. Schizophrenia, revelation, and ontology entangled. A world rule

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    • is_parent Quote by R. D. Laing 🔒 ·

      “Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”
  • is_parent IOTD: Cryptica Scriptura 🔒 ·

    One Mind there is; but under it two principles contend. The Mind lets in the light, then the dark, in interaction; so time is generated. At the end Mind awards
  • is_parent Fazit 🔒 ·

    Hard SF solves the universe; New Wave doubts the solver.