{"id":23120,"date":"2020-02-04T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=23120"},"modified":"2020-02-03T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T18:56:35","slug":"american-science-fiction-four-classic-novels-1960-1966-new-stuff-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/23120","title":{"rendered":"American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels: 1960-1966 (New Stuff Tuesday)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/americansciencefiction.jpg\" alt=\"American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels: 1960-1966 Book Cover\" height=\"250\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The editor of this series, Gary K Wolfe, has experience with science fiction, having written several other works on the scifi genre and having co-hosted the Hugo-nominated <strong>Coode Street<\/strong> Podcast. He previously wrote two partner-volumes of this series covering the 1950s. Here he chose to write two volumes covering the 1960s, because that decade was a time of upheaval for science fiction writing. The decade said &#8220;bye-bye&#8221; to the pulp fiction of previous decades and &#8220;hello&#8221; to more literary and cross-genre novels that raised science fiction to new levels and with expanded readership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wolfe has selected these classics for this volume of <strong>American Science Fiction<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>The High Crusade<\/em> by Poul Anderson<\/li><li><em>Way Station<\/em> by Clifford D Simak<\/li><li><em>Flowers for Algernon<\/em> by Daniele Keyes<\/li><li><em>&#8230;And Call me Conrad<\/em> (aka <em>This Immortal<\/em> by Roger Zelazny)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In spite of being a huge scifi buff, when I did a quick scan of the novels included in this volume I found that I&#8217;d only read one, <em>Flowers for Algernon<\/em>. It is a really amazing and moving novel about ethical and moral issues related to medical advances. A search for other titles in the volume brought up award finalists and winners and high accolades by reviewers. Seeing as in all four volumes I&#8217;d only read a few more of the novels, I&#8217;ve now got a much longer reading list. I think you might too. The <strong>American Science Fiction<\/strong> volumes would be a convenient place to start and we have them in the Andersen Library available to check o ut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The books in the series are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"American science fiction: Four classic novels 1953-1956 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/f\/1q3c9ri\/UWI71337359090002121\" target=\"_blank\"><b\/>American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953-1956<\/b><\/a> (2012)\n<ul><li><em>The Space Merchants<\/em> by Frederick Pohl and CM Kornbluth<\/li><li><em>More than Human<\/em> by Theodore Sturgeon<\/li><li><em>The Long Tomorrow<\/em> by Leigh Brackett<\/li><li><em>The Shrinking Man<\/em> by Richard Matheson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"American science fiction : five classic novels 1956-1958 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/f\/1q3c9ri\/UWI71337201070002121\" target=\"_blank\"><b>American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956-1958<\/b><\/a> (2012)\n<ul><li><em>Double Star<\/em> by Robert Heinlein<\/li><li><em>The Stars My Destination<\/em> by Alfred Bester<\/li><li><em>A Case of Conscience<\/em> by James Blish<\/li><li><em>Who?<\/em> by Algis Budrys<\/li><li><em>The Big Time<\/em> by Fritz Leiber<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"American science fiction: Four classic novels, 1968-1969 (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/f\/1q3c9ri\/UWI71464329360002121\" target=\"_blank\"><b>American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels, 1968-1969<\/b><\/a> (2019)\n<ul>\n<li><em>Past Master<\/em> by RA Lafferty<\/li><li><em>Picnic on Paradise<\/em> by Joanna Russ<\/li><li><em>Nova<\/em> by Samuel R Delany<\/li><li><em>Emphyrio<\/em> by Jack Vance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p><p><\/p><p><strong>American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels: 1960-1966<\/strong><br>\nedited by Gary K Wolfe<br>\nNew Arrivals Island, 2nd Floor<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/f\/1q3c9ri\/UWI71463469580002121\">PS648.S3 A5155 2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfe wrote two volumes covering the 1960s, because that decade was a time of upheaval for science fiction writing. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/23120\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,37],"tags":[645598,167112,645599],"class_list":["post-23120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-new-stuff-tuesdays","tag-american-science-fiction","tag-new-stuff-tuesday","tag-wolfe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23120"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23132,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23120\/revisions\/23132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}