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Treat yourself to some science fiction reading, with a bunch of recommend reads from the 1970s...
So many types of science fiction exist, and British Sf writing in the 1970s was often in the business of inventing new types or manipulating the old ones into interesting directions. Astonishing visions were created that reflected back on a changing world where the growth of superpowers jostled with the economic hardships at home. Were we heading in the right direction, as a species? What did it mean to be human, anyway, caught in an explosion of scientific and technological advances?
Some writers gave us space-travelling escapism, and some gave us nightmare thrillers at home. Some gave us alien intelligences and some gave us human stupidities. From the foreseeable future to the end of the universe, here’s a look at eleven incredible British science fiction novels of the 1970s:
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Treat yourself to some science fiction reading, with a bunch of recommend reads from the 1970s...
So many types of science fiction exist, and British Sf writing in the 1970s was often in the business of inventing new types or manipulating the old ones into interesting directions. Astonishing visions were created that reflected back on a changing world where the growth of superpowers jostled with the economic hardships at home. Were we heading in the right direction, as a species? What did it mean to be human, anyway, caught in an explosion of scientific and technological advances?
Some writers gave us space-travelling escapism, and some gave us nightmare thrillers at home. Some gave us alien intelligences and some gave us human stupidities. From the foreseeable future to the end of the universe, here’s a look at eleven incredible British science fiction novels of the 1970s:
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- 6/23/2016
- Den of Geek
So sad. One of the most important feminist writers ever passed away peacefully on Nov. 17 in her London home. She was 94 years old.
Doris Lessing, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and wrote important modern classics like The Golden Notebook and Memoirs of a Survivor, has passed away. The talented author died peacefully in her home in London on Nov. 17, her publisher, Harper Collins, said in a statement.
Doris Lessing: Author Dies At 94
“Doris Lessing was one of the great writers of our age,” Charlie Redmayne, CEO of Harper Collins, said. “She was a compelling storyteller with a fierce intellect and a warm heart who was not afraid to fight for what she believed in.”
Charlie’s high praise is well-deserved. Doris became the oldest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature when she won it at the age of 88 in 2007. It was an award that summed up her long,...
Doris Lessing, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007 and wrote important modern classics like The Golden Notebook and Memoirs of a Survivor, has passed away. The talented author died peacefully in her home in London on Nov. 17, her publisher, Harper Collins, said in a statement.
Doris Lessing: Author Dies At 94
“Doris Lessing was one of the great writers of our age,” Charlie Redmayne, CEO of Harper Collins, said. “She was a compelling storyteller with a fierce intellect and a warm heart who was not afraid to fight for what she believed in.”
Charlie’s high praise is well-deserved. Doris became the oldest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature when she won it at the age of 88 in 2007. It was an award that summed up her long,...
- 11/17/2013
- by Andrew Gruttadaro
- HollywoodLife
Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize winning author and feminist icon, died Sunday. She was 94. Her enduring contribution to literature came with the 1962 publication of “The Golden Notebook,” a sprawling and technically ambitious work that followed the peripatetic life of writer Anna Wulf. The post-modern classic charted Wulf’s emotional struggles through an intersecting series of journal entries, while also tackling communism, nuclear conflagration, sexual liberation and maternity. Lessing authored more than 50 novels, ranging from semi-autobiographical chronicles to science fiction tales. Among her works are “The Good Terrorist,” “Memoirs of a Survivor” and “The Grass is Singing,” which explored class struggle,...
- 11/17/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Writer Doris Lessing, author of The Golden Notebook, Memoirs of a Survivor, and The Summer Before the Dark, and dozens of other works, died in London today at the age of 94. Born in present-day Iran to British parents, she spent her childhood and twenties in what is now Zimbabwe, though she moved to London after becoming interested in leftist writing and politics. Lessing was the Nobel Prize in 2007, making her the oldest person to ever win the award for literature.Here is a very endearing video of her reaction to the win: Lessing's writing explored apartheid and colonialism in Africa, dystopia in Britain, spirituality, and feminism. Though Lessing shied away from the "feminist" label, the book for which she was best known, 1962's The Golden Notebook, was praised by the Nobel committee as "a pioneering work" that "belongs to the handful of books that informed the 20th Century view of...
- 11/17/2013
- by Caroline Bankoff
- Vulture
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