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published inThe Entropy Exhibition is the first critical assessment of the literary movement known as New Wave science fiction, It examines the history of the New Worlds magazine and its background in the popular imagination of thes, traces the strange history of sex in science fiction and analyses developments in stylistic theory and practice.


Michael Moorcock edited and produced the magazine New Worlds fromto, Within its pages he encouraged the development of new kinds of popular writing out of the genre of science fiction, energetically

reworking traditional themes, images and styles as a radical response to the crisis of modern fiction.
The essential paradox of the writing lay in its fascination with the concept of entropy the universal and irreversible decline of energy into disorder.
Entropy provides the key to both the anarchic vitality of the magazine and to its neglect by critics and academics, as well as its connection with other cultural experiments of thes.
The Fiction of the New Worlds writers was not concerned with far future and outer space, but with the ambiguous and unstable conditions of the modern world.


Detailed attention is given to each of the three main contributors to the New Worlds magazine Michael Moorcock, Brian Aldiss and J.
G. Ballard. Moorcock himself is more commonly judged by his commercial fantasy novels than by the magazine he supported with them, but here at last the balance is redressed: New Worlds emerges as nothing less than a focus and a metaphor for many of the transformations of English and American literature in the past two decades.
Lots has been written about the history of science fiction, but really wellgrounded, rigorous, comprehensive coverage of any area in it is tough to find as I learned when tackling the subject myself.
The 's New Wave which started as a movement for Modernist science fictionthink what the Eliots and Joyces did for regular fictionbut turned into much else is a particularly frustrating subject to investigate this way.
Fortunately Greenland's Entropy Exhibition is just that sort of rigorous yet also highly accessible work, one I would strongly recommend as a starting point for anyone trying to understand what New Wave science fiction was all about, in part because it is insightful into so much else.
Colin Greenlands fiction and criticism have been translated into a dozen languages and broadcast on BBC national radio, His multiple award winning science fiction novel Take Back Plenty, long out of print in the UK, is available again in the Orion sitelink SF Masterworks series, and for e readers at sitelink SF Gateway.
Colin lives in Cambridge and Foolow with his wife Susanna Clarke, the author of sitelink Jonathan Strange Mr Norrell and sitelink Piranesi.
He is sometimes to be found writing something, goodness knows what, Colin Greenland's fiction and criticism have been translated into a dozen languages and broadcast on BBC national radio, His multiple award winning science fiction novel Take Back Plenty, long out of print in the UK, is available again in the Orion sitelink SF Masterworks series, and for e readers at sitelink SF Gateway.
Colin lives in Cambridge and Foolow with his wife Susanna Clarke, the author of sitelink Jonathan Strange Mr Norrell and sitelink Piranesi.
He is sometimes to be found writing something, goodness knows what, sitelink.