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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.
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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.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
Chronology
Chapter One: Goodbye to all That: The Old Gateways
One Step...Forwards?
The Gatherings at the Gate
The King is Dead...
...Long live the King
The Forgotten Editor
How the Mighty Fall
Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll
The Anchor Mag
New Blood, New Clothes
Chapter Two: All This and Elwood Too: The Rival Gateways
The Threat from Within
The British Dimension
Experiments in Orbit
The Depths of Infinity
From Nova to Quark
Universe and New Dimensions
The New Generations
Select Bibliography
Index
The Female Perspective
The Elwood Factor
Heroes and Villains
The Threat from Without
Chapter Three: Small but Dangerous: The Alternate Gateways
Little Wonders
The Fantastic Dimension
Graphic Developments
Rival Roles
Spawn of the Weird
Under Scrutiny
Chapter Four: Back to the Future: The Final Gateways
The Rise and Fall of Galileo
A Fate Worse than Death
The Cosmos Experience
Asimov Triumphs
Asimov Expansion
Amazing Days
Star Mags
Super Science
SF Destiny
Chapter Five: Looking Back: The Gateways in Perspective
Select Bibliography
Index
