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jwharris28
Posted 2015-10-17 11:06 AM (#11513 - in reply to #11512)
Subject: Re: The Definitive 1960s Reading Challenge		Quote Reply



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Dune portends another change in the 1960s - because that's when SF novels started getting bigger. Most of the SF books of the 1950s were short, often less than 200 pages, and something you could read in a day. Dune, Stand on Zanzibar and Stranger in a Strange Land are books that want to be taken seriously. They are ambitious and big. 
 

 The sixties was when science fiction began to want to be considered something other than gosh-wow books for boys. Novels got more complex, and the writing started to improve. Plus, the genre began its first steps towards diversity. Ursula K. Le Guin and Samuel R. Delany added a lot of flavor that didn't exist in the 1950s.

 



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