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Genre Fiction: The Roaring Years by Peter Nicholls
Contents and Original Appearances

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Contents

  • Foreword by John Clute
  • Introduction by Peter Nicholls
  • Solaris by Stanisław Lem
  • Tau Zero by Poul Anderson and Ringworld by Larry Niven
  • Science Fiction and the Mainstream Part 1: The Demolition of Pigeon-Holes
  • Silent Running directed by Douglas Trumbull
  • Stonehenge by Leon Stover and Harry Harrison
  • Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? And Other Stories by Robert Sheckley
  • Report on Eurocon 1
  • SF: The Other Side of Realism edited by Thomas D. Clareson
  • An ABC of British Science Fiction – Apocalypse, Bleakness, Catastrophe
  • Tolkien: Anatomy of a Romance
  • Science Fiction and the Mainstream Part 2: The Great Tradition of Proto Science Fiction
  • The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Astounding-Analog Reader edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss
  • Inverted World by Christopher Priest
  • Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
  • The Great Seacon Freakout
  • The Death of James Blish
  • Jerry Cornelius at the Atrocity Exhibition: Anarchy and Entropy in New Worlds Science Fiction 1964-1974
  • Science Fiction: The Monsters and the Critics
  • Hop Aboard Kids, We’re Going to 1984: Seven Children’s Books
  • Illustration, Art, or Cosmic Kitsch?: Six SF Art Books
  • 1975: The Year in Science Fiction, or Let’s Hear It for the Decline and Fall of the Science Fiction Empire!
  • Publishers’ Pantheons
  • Consumers’ Guide to Recent Writing on SF
  • The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert
  • Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch
  • The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
  • The Regency Buck Stops Here
  • Golem100 by Alfred Bester
  • To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer: Introduction
  • Philip K. Dick: A Cowardly Memoir
  • Interzone: The First Eight Issues
  • David Cronenberg
  • Sarban
  • E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet by William Kotzwinkle
  • Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
  • Three Books on Fantastic Films
  • Contact by Carl Sagan
  • Too Old at 20
  • Philippa Pearce
  • Doors and Breakthroughs
  • Innocents Abroad
  • Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
  • Ghost Story by Peter Straub
  • The Man in the High Castle: Two Biographies of Philip K. Dick
  • Salvage Rites and The Fire Worm by Ian Watson
  • The 1990 World Science Fiction Convention
  • Foundation Garments, or The Administrator’s New Clothes: An Unreliable Memoir
  • Interview with Diana Wynne Jones
  • Will the Real Dan Simmons Please Stand Up?
  • Conceptual Breakthrough
  • The Academy and Science Fiction: Symbiosis or Parasitism
  • The Books We Really Read
  • Trapped in the Pattern: Science Fiction vs Fantasy, Open Universes vs Closed Universes, Free Will vs Predestination
  • Greg Benford
  • In Dante’s Dark Wood, A Piggy-wig Stood
  • Earth Is But a Star edited by Damien Broderick
  • Big Dumb Objects and Cosmic Enigmas: The Love Affair between Space Fiction and the Transcendental
  • Original Appearances
  • Editor’s Note
  • Index

Original Appearances

  • “1975: The Year in Science Fiction, or Let’s Hear It for the Decline and Fall of the Science Fiction Empire!” – Nebula Award Stories 11 (London: Victor Gollancz, November 1976) edited by Ursula K. Le Guin.
  • “The 1990 World Science Fiction Convention” – Sunday Herald (16 September 1990).
  • “An ABC of British Science Fiction – Apocalypse, Bleakness, Catastrophe” – Beyond This Horizon (November 1973) edited by Christopher Carrell.
  • “The Academy and Science Fiction: Symbiosis or Parasitism” – speech (1995) not previously published.
  • “The Astounding-Analog Reader edited by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss” – Foundation 6 (May 1974) edited by Peter Nicholls.
  • “Greg Benford” – Aussiecon Three Souvenir Book (September 1999) edited by Marc Ortlieb.
  • “Big Dumb Objects and Cosmic Enigmas: The Love Affair between Space Fiction and the Transcendental” – The New York Review of Science Fiction 256 (December 2009) edited by David G. Hartwell and Kevin J. Maroney.
  • “Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut” – Washington Post Book World (4 October 1987).
  • “The Books We Really Read” – The New York Review of Science Fiction 91 (March 1996) edited by David G. Hartwell and Kevin J. Maroney.
  • “Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch” – Survey of Science Fiction Literature, Volume 1 (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1979) edited by Frank N. Magill and (anonymously) Keith Neilson.
  • “Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? And Other Stories by Robert Sheckley” – Foundation 3 (March 1973) edited by Charles Barren.
  • “Conceptual Breakthrough” – Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (April 1993) edited by Peter Nicholls and John Clute; some cut text has been restored from the original 1979 version.
  • “Contact by Carl Sagan” – Washington Post Book World (13 October 1985).
  • “Consumers’ Guide to Recent Writing on SF” – Foundation 11/12 (March 1977) edited by Peter Nicholls.
  • “David Cronenberg” – Fantastic Cinema: An Illustrated Survey (London: Ebury Press, November 1984. New York: Dodd, Mead, January 1985, as The World of Fantastic Films: An Illustrated Survey) by Peter Nicholls.
  • “The Death of James Blish” – Foundation 9 (November 1975) edited by Peter Nicholls.
  • “Philip K. Dick: A Cowardly Memoir” – Tappen (June 1982) edited by Malcolm Edwards; reprinted Foundation 26 (October 1982) edited by David Pringle.
  • “Doors and Breakthroughs” – Frontier Crossings (Brighton: Conspiracy ’87, August 1987) edited by Rob Jackson.
  • “The Dosadi Experiment by Frank Herbert” – Foundation 15 (January 1979) edited by Malcolm Edwards.
  • “Earth Is But a Star edited by Damien Broderick” – Sydney Morning Herald (18 August 2001).
  • “E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet by William Kotzwinkle” – Washington Post Book World (10 March 1985).
  • “The Farthest Shore by Ursula Le Guin” – Foundation 5 (January 1974) edited by Peter Nicholls.
  • “The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe” – Survey of Science Fiction Literature, Volume 2 (Pasadena: Salem Press, 1979) edited by Frank N. Magill and (anonymously) Keith Neilson.
  • “Foundation Garments, or The Administrator’s New Clothes: An Unreliable Memoir” – Foundation 50 (Autumn 1990) edited by Edward James.
  • “Ghost Story by Peter Straub” – Horror: 100 Best Books (London: Xanadu, November 1988. New York, Carroll & Graf, 1988) edited by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman.
  • “Golem100 by Alfred Bester” – Washington Post Book World (25 May 1980).
  • “The Great Seacon Freakout” – Wrinkled Shrew 4, August 1975, edited by Pat Charnock.
  • “Hop Aboard Kids, We’re Going to 1984: Seven Children’s Books” – without subtitle in Foundation 10 (June 1976) edited by Peter Nicholls.
  • “Illustration, Art, or Cosmic Kitsch? Six SF Art Books” – without subtitle in Foundation 10 (June 1976) edited by Peter Nicholls.
  • “In Dante’s Dark Wood, A Piggy-wig Stood” – The New York Review of Science Fiction 144 (August 2000) edited by David G. Hartwell and Kevin J. Maroney.
  • “Innocents Abroad” – Conspiracy Theories (Autumn 1987) edited by Chris Evans.
  • “Interview with Diana Wynne Jones” – The Age (September 1992).
  • “Interzone: The First Eight Issues” – Times Literary Supplement (6 July 1984).
  • “Introduction by Peter Nicholls” – dated 2012; not previously published.
  • “Inverted World by Christopher Priest” – Foundation 7/8 (March 1975) edited by Peter Nicholls.
  • “Jerry Cornelius at the Atrocity Exhibition: Anarchy and Entropy in New Worlds Science Fiction 1964-1974” – Foundation 9 (November 1975) edited by Peter Nicholls.
  • “The Man in the High Castle: Two Biographies of Philip K. Dick” – Washington Post Book World (31 December 1989).
  • “Philippa Pearce” – Washington Post Book World (11 January 1987).
  • “Publishers’ Pantheons” – Foundation 11/12 (March 1977) edited by Peter Nicholls.
  • “The Regency Buck Stops Here” – Drilkjis 5 (February 1980) edited by David Langford and Kevin Smith.
  • “Report on Eurocon 1” – Foundation 3 (March 1973) edited by Charles Barren.
  • “Salvage Rites and The Fire Worm by Ian Watson” – The Sunday Herald (1990), exact date not traced.
  • “Sarban” – Supernatural Fiction Writers (New York: Scribner’s, 1985) edited by E.F. Bleiler.
  • “Science Fiction and the Mainstream Part 1: The Demolition of Pigeon-Holes” – Foundation 3 (March 1973) edited by Charles Barren.
  • “Science Fiction and the Mainstream Part 2: The Great Tradition of Proto Science Fiction” – Foundation 5 (January 1974) edited by Peter Nicholls.
  • “Science Fiction: The Monsters and the Critics” – Science Fiction at Large (London: Victor Gollancz, 1976) edited by Peter Nicholls.
  • “SF: The Other Side of Realism edited by Thomas D. Clareson” – Foundation 4 (July 1973) edited by Charles Barren.
  • “Silent Running directed by Douglas Trumbull” – Foundation 3 (March 1973) edited by Charles Barren.
  • “Skeleton Crew by Stephen King” – Washington Post Book World (16 June 1985).
  • “Solaris by Stanisław Lem” – Foundation 1 (March 1972) edited by Charles Barren.
  • “Stonehenge by Leon Stover and Harry Harrison” – Foundation 3 (March 1973) edited by Charles Barren.
  • “Tau Zero by Poul Anderson and Ringworld by Larry Niven” – Foundation 2 (June 1972) edited by Charles Barren.
  • “Three Books on Fantastic Films” – untitled in Foundation 34 (Autumn 1985) edited by David Pringle.
  • “Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein” – Foundation 7/8 (March 1975) edited by Peter Nicholls.
  • “To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer: Introduction” – Gregg Press (July 1980) reissue of this novel.
  • “Tolkien: Anatomy of a Romance” – Vector 67/68 (Summer 1974) edited by Malcolm Edwards.
  • “Too Old at 20” – Guardian (4 September 1986).
  • “Trapped in the Pattern: Science Fiction vs Fantasy, Open Universes vs Closed Universes, Free Will vs Predestination” – The Fantastic Self: Essays on the Subject of the Self (Perth: Eidolon Publications, 1999) edited by Janeen Webb and Andrew Enstice.
  • “The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe” – Foundation 41 (Winter 1987) edited by Edward James.
  • “Will the Real Dan Simmons Please Stand Up?” – Necrofile (Fall 1992) edited by Stefan Dziemianowicz, S.T. Joshi and Michael A. Morrison.

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