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Solar Flares Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 43 Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies Editor David Seed, University of Liverpool Editorial Board Mark Bould, University of the West of England Veronica Hollinger, Trent University Rob Latham, University of California Roger Luckhurst, Birkbeck College, University of London Patrick Parrinder, University of Reading Andy Sawyer, University of Liverpool Recent titles in the series 21. Andy Sawyer and David Seed (eds) Speaking Science Fiction: Dialogues and Interpretations 22. Inez van der Spek Alien Plots: Female Subjectivity and the Divine 23. S. T. Joshi Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction 24. Mike Ashley The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 25. Warren G. Rochelle Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin 26. S. T. Joshi A Dreamer and a Visionary: H. P. Lovecraft in his Time 27. Christopher Palmer Philip K. Dick: Exhilaration and Terror of the Postmodern 28. Charles E. Gannon Rumors of War and Infernal Machines: Technomilitary Agenda-Setting in American and British Speculative Fiction 29. Peter Wright Attending Daedalus: Gene Wolfe, Artifice and the Reader 30. Mike Ashley Transformations: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazine from 1950–1970 31. Joanna Russ The Country You Have Never Seen: Essays and Reviews 32. Robert Philmus Visions and Revisions: (Re)constructing Science Fiction 33. Gene Wolfe (edited and introduced by Peter Wright) Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe on Writing/Writers on Wolfe 34. Mike Ashley Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazine from 1970–1980 35. Patricia Kerslake Science Fiction and Empire 36. Keith Williams H. G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies 37. Wendy Gay Pearson, Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon (eds.) Queer Universes: Sexualities and Science Fiction 38. John Wyndham (eds. David Ketterer and Andy Sawyer) Plan for Chaos 39. Sherryl Vint Animal Alterity: Science Fiction and the Question of the Animal 40. Paul Williams Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War: Representations of Nuclear Weapons and Post-Apocalyptic Worlds 41. Sara Wasson and Emily Alder, Gothic Science Fiction 1980–2010 42. David Seed (ed.), Future Wars: The Anticipations and the Fears Solar Flares Science Fiction in the 1970s ANDREW M. BUTLER LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY PRESS First published 2012 by LiFviersrtp pouolb Ulisnhievde r2si0t1y 2P rbeyss Live4r pCoaoml bUrnidivgeer Ssittrye ePtress 4 CamLibvreirdpgoeo Sltreet LLi6v9er 7pZoUol L69 7ZU Copyright © 2012 Andrew M. Butler Copyright © 2012 Andrew M. Butler The right of Andrew M. Butler to be identified as the author of this book The right of hAansd breeewn Mas.s eBrutetlde rb tyo h biem i dine natcicfioerdd aasn cthe ew aiuthth tohre of this book has Cboeepnyr aigshsetr, tDede sbigyn hs iamn din P aactceonrtds aAnccte 1 w98it8h. the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. 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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication data BritiAsh B Lriitbirsahr yL iCbraatraylo CguIPin rge-cionr-dP uisb alivcaaitliaobnl edata A British Library CIP record is available Web IPSDBFN e 9IS7B8N-1 9-7884-613-184-863314--7479-8 ISBN 978-1-84631-834-4 Typeset by XL Publishing Services, Tiverton Printed anTdy pbeosuetn bdy b Xy LC PPuI bGlrisohuipn g( USKer)v Licteds,, CTriovyerdtoonn CR0 4YY Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon CR0 4YY To Peter and Jennifer Contents Acknowledgements ix Prologue 1 1 The Ends of First Sf: Pioneers as Veterans 11 2 After the New Wave: After Science Fiction? 24 3 Beyond Apollo: Space Fictions after the Moon Landing 38 4 Big Dumb Objects: Science Fiction as Self-Parody 51 5 The Rise of Fantasy: Swords and Planets 65 6 Home of the Extraterrestrial Brothers: Race and African American Science Fiction 78 7 Alien Invaders: Vietnam and the Counterculture 92 8 This Septic Isle: Post-Imperial Melancholy 106 9 Foul Contagion Spread: Ecology and Environmentalism 120 10 Female Counter-Literature: Feminism 136 11 Strange Bedfellows: Gay Liberation 152 12 Saving the Family? Children’s Fiction 168 13 Eating the Audience: Blockbusters 181 14 Chariots of the Gods: Pseudoscience and Parental Fears 192 15 Towers of Babel: The Architecture of Sf 206 16 Ruptures: Metafiction and Postmodernism 221 Epilogue 236 Bibliography 239 Index 270 Acknowledgements I have been lucky, as always, with the people surrounding me, who have offered books, cakes, coffees, DVDs, downloads, food, photocopies, spare rooms and tea and sympathy. A partial list would include Adam Roberts, Andy Sawyer, Arthur Evans, Carol Ann Kerry-Green, Carol McGuirk, Catherine Butler, Colin Odell, Dave Roberts, Edward James, Elizabeth Billinger, Estelle Roberts, Farah Mendlesohn, I.Q. Hunter, Istvan Csicsery- Ronay Jr, James Kneale, Javier Martinez, Jennifer Woodward, Joan Gordon, Joshua ‘Sha’ LaBare, Mark Bould, Matt Hills, Matt Moore, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Mike Levy, Mitch Le Blanc, Neil Easterbrook, Pat Wheeler, Paul Billinger, Paul Kincaid, Peter Wright, Robert Edgar, Rob Latham, Roger Luckhurst, Sherryl Vint, Tim Long and Veronica Hollinger. My apologies to anyone I have omitted. Farah Mendlesohn and James Kneale both read chapters, but, as ever, any errors remain my own. Thanks to the staff and librarians of the Special Collections, Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool, and extra thanks to those who helped me watch things I would not have otherwise seen. I am grateful to Canter- bury Christ Church University for granting me teaching remission, without which this book would have taken even longer. And especial thanks to my editor at Liverpool University Press, Anthony Cond, who knows the meaning of patience. To mine hosts and fellow patrons of the Two Doves – above all, Ben Parkinson, the executive editor, but also Craig Scannell, Dave Mahy, Dave Taylor, Ewan Martin, Gemma Rowe, Ian McNamara, Leo Grant, Lisa Claire and the Guinness crew – much thanks. A Note on Dates and References For print fiction I have tried where possible to give the dates of first maga- zine appearances as well as book form. Films are referenced by director and first year of release; in some cases international releases were delayed or have not occurred at all. For television programmes I have attempted to supply dates of original broadcasts; because of the regional nature of broadcasting, in some cases I have only given the year. I have abbreviated
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