List of Tables
Preface
Note on Terminology
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Chapter 1: Before the Revolution: Bastion of Excellence
Chapter 2: The First Revolution: Cyberpunk Days
The McCarthy Years
The Impact of Omni
Cyberpunk Daze
The Analog Dimension
Dozois in Charge
Amazing Rebirth
Chapter 3: The First Interlude: The Dark Corners
Twilight Zone
Horror Struck
Chapter 4: The Second Revolution: The British Hard-SF
Renaissance
Out of the Wilderness
Interzone
Beyond Interzone
Chapter 5: The Second Interlude: Other Worlds
Éire
Canada
Australia
Far Corners
Chapter 6: The Third Rebellion: The SF Underground
SF Renegades
Dangerous Pulphouse
Chapter 7: Postlude: Back to Basics
Stuck on the Launch Pad
Shared Worlds
Small-Press Endeavours
Magazine with a Mission
A Qualified Success
A Problem Shared …
Chapter 8: Epilogue
Appendix 1: Non-English-Language Science-Fiction Magazines
Appendix 2: Checklist of English-Language Science-Fiction
Magazines
Appendix 3: Directory of Magazine Editors and Publishers
Appendix 4: Directory of Magazine Cover Artists
Appendix 5: Schedule of Magazine Circulation Figures
Select Bibliography
Addenda and Corrigenda
Index
Mike Ashley has specialised in the history of science fiction and fantasy for over fifty years. He is the author and editor of over 130 books that in total have sold more than a million copies worldwide. He received the Science Fiction Research Association's Pilgrim Award in 2002 for Lifetime Achievement in the field of science-fiction scholarship.
'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.'
Andy Sawyer
'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.'
Gary K. Wolfe, Locus
'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.'
Mark Greener, Fortean Times
‘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.’
Derek Johnston, Fantastika Journal
'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, SFRA Review
'[Science Fiction Rebels] 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.'
Andy Hedgecock, Foundation
‘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,
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