With Christmas behind us and New Year's Day just ahead...
...we're going to re-present a controversial (albeit award-winning) time-travel tale about the guy whose birthday we just celebrated!
In
the 1960s, science fiction experienced an influx of a "New Wave" of
writers who wanted to go beyond "hard" sf and experiment, both in form
and in
content, with a more literary/artistic sensibility.
New
Wave writers often saw themselves as part
of the modernist tradition, writing "soft" or metaphysical stories
instead of the technology-oriented or "hard" sf of Asimov, Heinlein, et
al.
The leading proponent of the movement was Michael Moorcock, editor of the British magazine New Worlds as well as an established and successful "hard" sf writer.
...to be continued
