ENG 503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Michael Moorcock, William S. Burroughs, Hard Science Fiction

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 503
• Professor: David Copeland

Document Summary

Is a term associated not so much with a unified group of individuals forging a literary movement, but with two factors: A group of writers who emerge in britain and america in the 1960"s who react against the hard sf of the previous 30 years and also seek to collapse the boundaries between high culture and low culture. As sf begins to leave its core readership (young teen males) and its fascination with outer space adventures behind. The new wave is sf associated with inner space not outer space primarily. One of its favourite topics is entropy: the eventual winding down of all systems (due to the inevitable loss of energy) Michael moorcock, in new worlds, described his aims as follows . He wanted to redefine sf as speculative fantasy . Resulting in an important revitalisation of the literary mainstream .