But both books were products of the same historical moment, and-I speak from experience-both could have similar effects on a young reader. The author finds more differences than similarities between Heinlein's individualist anarchism and LeGuin's collectivist kind.

Le Guin (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating 3,815 ratings published 1972 6 editions. One essay contrasts two memorable novels about extraplanetary anarchist communities: Heinlein's The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress and Ursula LeGuin's The Dispossessed. Harlan Ellison (Editor), John Heidenry (Contributor), Ross Rocklynne (Contributor), Ursula K. Robert Heinlein shows up too, though he was a stalwart of the old guard that the New Wave was challenging. Lafferty, a rock-ribbed Catholic reactionary whose wonderfully bizarre stories 'were simply too weird for either the literary or popular tributaries of the 'mainstream.'' One of the best essays is Nick Mamatas' appreciation of R.A. The editors also understand that not every experimentalist was on the political left. Ballard, Octavia Butler, Barry Malzberg, and others-but so are TV tie-ins and porny paperbacks, showing how such ideas seeped through society.

The most talented New Wave writers are covered here-there are essays on J.G. Bookstores all over seem to be closing their physical doors and opening virtual ones. The best thing about Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950–1985, an uneven but often incisive anthology of essays from PM Press, is that it covers the New Wave moment without limiting itself to the New Wave movement. Dangerous Visions is a Used Mass Market Paperback available to purchase and shipped from Firefly Bookstore in Kutztown, PA. I grew up, in short, in the shadow of the New Wave, a movement that shook up science fiction with countercultural ideas. Since I was born in 1970, that meant the tales I took in were frequently filled not just with spaceships and time travel but with psychedelic drugs, radically reimagined gender roles, thinly veiled metaphors for Vietnam, and genrified updates of the modernists' literary experiments. Like many American kids, I grew up reading science fiction.

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