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Andy Sawyer.

Publication: Extrapolation
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Andy Sawyer.(Special Section)(on science fiction studies)(Essay)

Article Excerpt
* Science fiction has travelled from being unknown territory to becoming mapped and analysed far beyond the dreams of those individuals--fans and academics--who began the work. But sf has always been bedevilled by assumption, the sense that genre is simple and easy to understand. It's fascinating to read Richard Hoggart's description of 1950s science fiction, in his seminal The Uses of Literacy (Pelican 1958), which, as the British fan Greg Pickersgill pointed out to me, is so wrong in...

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