Technological know-how fiction was once born in Britain--and within the nineteen-seventies British SF bargains the superior and so much ingenious in smooth writing.
Now Mike Ashley has compiled, in volumes, a big choice of vintage tales featuring the heritage of British technological know-how fiction from H.G. Wells to Michael Moorcock.
Volume takes up the place quantity One left off, with the beginnings of the 'new wave', and indicates how, within the 'sixties, experimental and conventional SF existed facet through side--in what used to be a brand new Golden Age for British SF. Writers comprise Bob Shaw, John Wyndham, Arthur C. Clarke, Kingsley Amis, Brian Aldiss, Fred Hoyle, J. G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock and Keith Roberts.
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In the last eight years, though sudden advances have often been succeeded by alarming setbacks, there has been a constant and cumulative improvement in nearly all spheres. Though ultimate Party control of literature and the arts has never been abandoned (and could of course at any moment be restored in all its vigor) it has nevertheless been exercised, on the whole, with restraint and intelligence and has even, for brief periods, been relaxed to a degree which would have been quite inconceivable in Stalin’s day.
Translation by Walter N. Vickery. E V G E N I ZAMYATIN On Literature, Revolution, and Entropy Tell me what is the final integer, the one at the very top, the biggest of all. But that’s ridiculous! Since the number of integers is in finite, how can you have a final integer? LITERATURE, REVOLUTION, AND ENTROPY [13 Well then how can you have a final revolution? There is no final revolution. Revolutions are infinite. —Evgeni Zamyatin, We Ask the question point-blank: What is revolution? You get a variety of replies.
In his novel Kochetov made the ominous point that there could indeed have been a “Hungarian” crisis in Russia itself and that the Soviet intellectuals—he sometimes puts the word in a pejorative diminutive form: intelligentiki —of the type of Ehrenburg (who though not mentioned by name is clearly alluded to) would have been morally responsible for it. e. the Party leadership. For several months after Hungary there was a violent campaign against “revisionism”; for a short time in 1957 Kochetov was editor of the strategic and hitherto on the whole “liberal” Literary Gazette and there was scarcely any interesting new literature.
