Anonymous
8/25/2025, 8:52:10 AM
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I feel this sums up the New Wave of Sci-Fi. Notice, if you will, your lack of surprise at seeing the names in the appropriate columns. This is either because you lack familiarity to have any sense of betrayal or instead because they aligned very strongly with the thrust of their work. New Wave was an upset, a betrayal of the idea that futurological progress was unitarian. The men with slide rulers who had lived peacefully with the dwindling embers of the two-fisted men were being confronted and replaced by whizz-bangers who wanted to turn the lens of speculation on social what-ifs and daring social trespass. The short story in its brevity captures the movement was that one Dangerous Visions screed that ends with the reveal that the main character is gay, cut to black.