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<blockquote> Campbell’s defense of science fiction amid critical claims that the genre consisted of little more than escapist imaginings, a common late-1950's perception sustained by the monster-and-space-suit covers of pulps and comic | <blockquote> Campbell’s defense of science fiction amid critical claims that the genre consisted of little more than escapist imaginings, a common late-1950's perception sustained by the monster-and-space-suit covers of pulps and comic books lining newsstand shelves a decade earlier. The real escapist literature, he maintained in a 1959 editorial, was fiction published in popular, slick-paper magazines and consumed by mainstream readers unaware of the implications of technological advancement. “It happens that science fiction’s core is just about the only non-escape literature available to the general public today,” he maintains, emphasizing that scientists writing reports on manned space stations, bases on the Moon, and antigravity devices have a nearly emotional connection to the social changes ahead. {{sfn|Shuman|p=30}} </blockquote> | ||
books lining newsstand shelves a decade earlier. The real escapist literature, | |||
he maintained in a 1959 editorial, was fiction published in popular, slick-paper magazines and consumed by mainstream readers unaware of the implications of technological advancement. “It happens that science fiction’s | |||
core is just about the only non-escape literature available to the general public today,” he maintains, emphasizing that scientists writing reports on | |||
manned space stations, bases on the Moon, and antigravity devices have a | |||
nearly emotional connection to the social changes ahead. {{sfn|Shuman|p=30}} </blockquote> | |||
'''Now jumping to the Mailer''' | '''Now jumping to the Mailer''' | ||
Mailer began in April 1953 with ''The Language Of Men'' of an Amry-based cook publication. Mailer is intentionally vague. When "The Last Night" was published in the December 1963 issue was a result of the experimental nature in science fiction for Mailer. | Mailer began in April 1953 with ''The Language Of Men'' of an Amry-based cook publication. Mailer is intentionally vague. When "The Last Night" was published in the December 1963 issue was a result of the experimental nature in science fiction for Mailer. | ||
< | <blockquote> The plot presents a world nearly uninhabitable due the radioactive fallout from atomic bombs. “[E]ven the apples on the trees turn malignant in the stomach,” he writes. “Life is being burned out by a bleak fire within, a plague upon the secrets of our existence which stultifies the air.” Mailer emphasizes that this dire situation was created by a series of apparently trivial decisions by government officials attempting to conceal the truth of eventual global catastrophe, “ten thousand little abuses of power, ten thousand moments in history when the leaders had decided that the news they held was too unpleasant or too paralyzing for the masses to bear” (151,275) {{sfn|Shuman|p=31}}</blockquote> | ||