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When Genres Collide: "The Last Night" As Science Fiction.
“As an editor,” writes Alec Nevala-Lee, “he
wanted good writing, accurate science, believable characters, and stories that
logically accounted for multiple variables” (79). Writers are known to write about stories that have either happened to them personally or stories that have been told from generation to generation. John W. Campbell. Editor Of The Magazine Astounding and Analog, could be said to have the most dominant voice between 1937 and 1971 of science fiction community. Campbell's concern was to ensure the legitimacy of works of science fiction.
<blockqoute> 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. [1]
Cited:
Nevala-Lee, Alec. Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction. HarperCollins,
Shuman L, Michael. When Genres Collide; "The Last Night As Science Fiction.