Dangerous visions ellison7/6/2023 This was the beginning of what a lot of folks today call “Literary Science Fiction” or “Speculative Fiction”. Story-wise, New Wave was much more inwardly focused, and valued style and prose as much as the Golden Age valued grand ideas and outward exploration. Instead of beginning there, I jumped forward to the New Wave era that hit in the mid sixties. The Golden Age science fiction stories of the thirties, forties and fifties were a little less focused on stylistic prose or quality writing, and a little too culturally and scientifically removed from my era to interest me. Catching up for lost time became a real priority in my thirties. I think I suddenly realized how many valuable novels and stories and how much interesting history and perspective I missed out on throughout my twenties. I was an avid reader during my teens, but I read very little during my twenties for whatever reason. Something clicked in my head when I turned thirty I started devouring older science fiction stories.
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