“In the 1970s, science fiction began to fragment into smaller subsets: the New Wave fizzled out, leaving its own imprint on the genre, while new subgenres grew in the aftermath. One author of the time looked back to her roots for inspiration for her stories, developing her own brand of science fiction that at once revered the classics of the genre while using the same building blocks to subvert them.”

Andrew Liptak on The Not-So-Typical Adventures of Lois McMaster Bujold (artist above: Alan Gutierrez)

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Doctor Who Annual 1977

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The Doctor & The Savage.

Jack Gaughan’s triptych for the unauthorized edition of the Lord of the Rings.

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Time magazine, reporting on a 1989 plane crash, offhandedly mentioned that one passenger had been reading an Arthur C. Clarke novel. Clarke clipped the story and mailed it to Isaac Asimov, along with a note that the unfortunate reader should have brought along an Asimov novel, as it would have put him to sleep.

Asimov’s response? “Oh, no, the passenger should have been reading an Arthur Clarke novel; then death would have been a merciful release!”

17 Epic Burns Given to Classic SF/F Authors

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