Gateways to Forever [electronic resource] : The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980
Ashley, Mike.
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 oppo
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Title Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Tables; Chronology; Chapter One: Goodbye to all That: The Old Gateways; Chapter Two: All This and Elwood Too: The Rival Gateways; Chapter Three: Small but Dangerous: The Alternate Gateways; Chapter Four: Back to the Future: The Final Gateways; Chapter Five: Looking Back: The Gateways in Perspective; Appendix 1: Non-English Language Science Fiction Magazines; Appendix 2: Summary of Science-Fiction Magazines; Appendix 3: Directory of Magazine Editors and Publishers; Appendix 4: Director of Magazine Cover Artists
Appendix 5: Schedule of Magazine Circulation FiguresSelect Bibliography; Index
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 oppo
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 6, 2014).
Science fiction, English.
English Literature
American Literature
English
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