![]() ![]() PM Press’s recent anthology Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985 covers the field’s early years with wonderfully sweeping essays and studies of some of the most illuminating authors and editors of the field in transformation.įrom a radical point of view, the “Futurion Club” of Manhattan, formed during the Popular Front years of the later 1930s, offered a beginning. And although I couldn’t see it, the revolution had only begun. Some of the 35-cent paperbacks tackled serious subjects, like the commercialization of culture the more avant-garde writers offered literary polemics against racism and war. The half-dozen or more SF or SF/Fantasy magazines on the newsstands published hundreds of stories each month, and the paperback market was similarly booming. ![]() Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985Ībout a half century ago, my grand aspiration was to become a Science Fiction writer. ![]()
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