{"product_id":"solar-flares-andrew-m-butler-9781781381175","title":"Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s","description":"Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as \"confused, self-involved, and stale\". The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf - on the one hand it aspired to be a serious form, addressing issues such as race, Vietnam, feminism, ecology and sexuality, on the other hand it broke box office records with \u003cem\u003eStar Wars\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eClose Encounters of the Third Kind\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAlien\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSuperman: The Movie\u003c\/em\u003e. Beginning with chapters on the First sf and New Wave authors who published during the 1970s, \u003cem\u003eSolar Flares \u003c\/em\u003eexamines the ways in which the genre confronted a new epoch and its own history, including the rise of fantasy, the sf blockbuster, children's sf, pseudoscience and postmodernism. It explores significant figures such as Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany and Octavia Butler. From Larry Niven's \u003cem\u003eRingworld\u003c\/em\u003e to Thomas M. Disch's \u003cem\u003eOn Wings of Song\u003c\/em\u003e, from \u003cem\u003eThe Andromeda Strain\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eFlash Gordon\u003c\/em\u003e and from \u003cem\u003eDoctor Who\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eBuck Rogers\u003c\/em\u003e, this book reclaims seventies sf writing, film and television - alongside music and architecture - as a crucial period in the history of science fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew M. Butler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781381178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781381175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.12w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew M. Butler\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christchurch University. He is the author and editor of many books including (as co-editor) \u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Companion to Science Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2009) and \u003cem\u003eFifty Key Figures in Science Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2009).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrew M. Butler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44077300187391,"sku":"9781781381175","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5c14598d-3f60-4a19-800f-d0824eda2cb4.jpg?v=1685469253","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/solar-flares-andrew-m-butler-9781781381175","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}