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Gateways to Forever : The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980.
Title:
Gateways to Forever : The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980.
Author:
Ashley, Mike.
ISBN:
9781846313172
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (527 pages)
Series:
Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 34 ; v.v. 34

Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 34
Contents:
Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Tables -- Chronology -- Chapter One: Goodbye to all That: The Old Gateways -- One Step … Forwards? -- The Gathering at the Gate -- The King is Dead … -- … Long Live the King -- The Forgotten Editor -- How the Mighty Fall -- Sex and Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll -- The Anchor Mag -- New Blood, New Clothes -- Chapter Two: All This and Elwood Too: The Rival Gateways -- The Threat from Within -- The British Dimension -- Experiments in Orbit -- The Depths of Infinity -- From Nova to Quark -- Universe and New Dimensions -- The New Generations -- The Female Perspective -- The Elwood Factor -- Heroes and Villains -- The Threat from Without -- Chapter Three: Small but Dangerous: The Alternate Gateways -- Little Wonders -- The Fantastic Dimension -- Graphic Developments -- Rival Roles -- Spawn of the Weird -- Under Scrutiny -- Chapter Four: Back to the Future: The Final Gateways -- The Rise and Fall of Galileo -- A Fate Worse than Death -- The Cosmos Experience -- Asimov Triumphs -- Asimov Expansion -- Amazing Days -- Star Mags -- Super Science -- SF Destiny -- 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 Figures -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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 opposition. The market for science fiction diversified as never before, with the growth in new anthologies, the emergence of semi-professional magazines, the explosion of science fiction in college, the start of role-playing gaming magazines, underground and adult comics and, with the success of Star Wars , media magazines. This volume explores how the traditional science-fiction magazines coped with this, from the death of Campbell to the start of the major popular science magazine Omni and the first dreams of the Internet.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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