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- catalog abstract "The modern marketplace of science fiction and the relationship between art, culture, and commerce as reflected in works of science fiction are the concerns of these original essays. The contributors, all of whom are science fiction writers, editors, or critics, offer a wealth of new perspectives and insights on the forces that both drive and hinder creativity and its commodification. Many of the essays look at how the market constrains a writer's aesthetic and financial development, how changing perceptions of the science fiction audience are "distorting the product," how writers can and must persevere against the problems facing them, and how the market, as a literature-generating machine out of control, has both its down- and upsides. Through case studies, other contributors relate science fiction to other forms of "underground" literature, consider the continual cycle of illegitimate art replacing legitimate art, look at young readers of science fiction, chart the rising and falling "stock" of science fiction writers' reputations, and consider the influence of editors on a writer's work. Finally, in looking at science fiction and market realities in other countries and other media, contributors examine American and British science fiction in the context of the two countries' different histories and market conditions, Russian science fiction and the collapse of the Soviet Union, independent and mass-market science fiction film and video, the opening up of the comic book market, and interactive computer games. This volume is filled with real-world insights into how and why writers, editors, and critics both resist and participate in the commerce of culture. As a forward-looking and often iconoclastic genre, science fiction, in its market context, has much to offer other modes of literary expression that traditionally face future uncertainties with comparatively less relish.".
- catalog contributor b9732932.
- catalog contributor b9732933.
- catalog contributor b9732934.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Against Agoraphobia: Confronting the Idea of Marketplaces / Gary Westfahl -- Science Fiction in the Real World -- Revisited / Norman Spinrad -- The Distortion of the Product: Stresses on Science Fiction Literature / David G. Hartwell -- Our Pious Hope: Science Fiction Marketing, Counter-Marketing, and Transcendence / Kathryn Cramer -- The War Zone of Art: Science Fiction Writers, Publishers, and the Modern Marketplace / Sheila Finch -- The Homeostatic Culture Machine / George Slusser -- "Turn That Shit Down!" Or, How to Market an Underground / Frank McConnell -- Science Fiction and the Question of the Canon / Carl Freedman -- Selling Science Fiction to Young Readers / C.W. Sullivan III.".
- catalog description "Finally, in looking at science fiction and market realities in other countries and other media, contributors examine American and British science fiction in the context of the two countries' different histories and market conditions, Russian science fiction and the collapse of the Soviet Union, independent and mass-market science fiction film and video, the opening up of the comic book market, and interactive computer games.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The modern marketplace of science fiction and the relationship between art, culture, and commerce as reflected in works of science fiction are the concerns of these original essays. The contributors, all of whom are science fiction writers, editors, or critics, offer a wealth of new perspectives and insights on the forces that both drive and hinder creativity and its commodification. Many of the essays look at how the market constrains a writer's aesthetic and financial development, how changing perceptions of the science fiction audience are "distorting the product," how writers can and must persevere against the problems facing them, and how the market, as a literature-generating machine out of control, has both its down- and upsides.".
- catalog description "This volume is filled with real-world insights into how and why writers, editors, and critics both resist and participate in the commerce of culture. As a forward-looking and often iconoclastic genre, science fiction, in its market context, has much to offer other modes of literary expression that traditionally face future uncertainties with comparatively less relish.".
- catalog description "Through case studies, other contributors relate science fiction to other forms of "underground" literature, consider the continual cycle of illegitimate art replacing legitimate art, look at young readers of science fiction, chart the rising and falling "stock" of science fiction writers' reputations, and consider the influence of editors on a writer's work.".
- catalog extent "vii, 220 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0820317268".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Athens : University of Georgia Press,".
- catalog subject "808.3/8762 20".
- catalog subject "PN3377.5.S3 S27 1996".
- catalog subject "Science fiction Appreciation.".
- catalog subject "Science fiction Authorship Marketing.".
- catalog subject "Science fiction Marketing.".
- catalog subject "Science fiction Publishing.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Against Agoraphobia: Confronting the Idea of Marketplaces / Gary Westfahl -- Science Fiction in the Real World -- Revisited / Norman Spinrad -- The Distortion of the Product: Stresses on Science Fiction Literature / David G. Hartwell -- Our Pious Hope: Science Fiction Marketing, Counter-Marketing, and Transcendence / Kathryn Cramer -- The War Zone of Art: Science Fiction Writers, Publishers, and the Modern Marketplace / Sheila Finch -- The Homeostatic Culture Machine / George Slusser -- "Turn That Shit Down!" Or, How to Market an Underground / Frank McConnell -- Science Fiction and the Question of the Canon / Carl Freedman -- Selling Science Fiction to Young Readers / C.W. Sullivan III.".
- catalog title "Science fiction and market realities / edited by Gary Westfahl, George Slusser, and Eric S. Rabkin.".
- catalog type "text".