The third generation of genre science fiction
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The 1990s ushered in TV-based science fiction, which represents the third generation of the genre. Magazines devoted to TV science fiction and paperbacks tied to TV series have exceeded sales of science fiction magazines. The TV-dependent market for paperback books has kept the novel in its standard form, but these are steeped in formula, thus restricting the freedom and enterprise of authors. The ideal format for TV science fiction is the unstructured serial which can be shown on the same time-slot throughout the year, with an ending that returns the characters to the same situation they were in at the beginning.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 1996
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Adventures in paraliterature
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A science fiction teacher aimed to introduce the genre to students as a kind of literature and as texts and cultural phenomena that contribute to language and to an understanding of the self. His first science fiction course was an experimental one entitled 'Science Fiction and Speculative Fantasy' at the California State University in 1969. He finds science fiction fans' disinterest in literature and literary readers' disinterest in science fiction as the major problems hindering serious study of science fiction.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 1996
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"Talking." (Samuel R. Delany's 'Silent Interviews: On Language, Race, Sex, Science Fiction, and Some Comics: A Collection of Written Interviews)
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Samuel Delany has imposed his own idea of how an interview should proceed in writing a book of interviews on topics appearing in science fiction and comic books. His interviews with various writers working in both genres reveal his personal concern with the manner in which these genres are produced in terms of influence, material, narrative development and social context. The book includes dialogues with Takayuki Tatsumi, Phillip K. Dick and Susan Grossman.
Publication Name: Science Fiction Studies
Subject: Literature/writing
ISSN: 0091-7729
Year: 1995
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