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(2016) The history of science fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Two seemingly contradictory observations suggest that something peculiar happened to written SF in the last decades of the 20th century. The first is that, over this period, more and more SF novels and stories appeared annually, amongst them many significant achievements and some undeniable masterpieces, such that SF grew into one of the most successful branches of publishing. But a second observation is that during this period the novel stopped being the prime mode of SF. As visual SF (particularly cinema and TV) increasingly came to dominate the mainstream, prose SF became increasingly sidelined—an energetic sideline with many passionate adherents, but a sideline nonetheless.
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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-56957-8_14
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Roberts, A. (2016). Prose sf of the 1980s and 1990s, in The history of science fiction, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 421-462.
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