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Article: New Worlds and the New Wave in fandom: fan culture and the reshaping of science fiction in the sixties.
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- Extrapolation
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- June 22, 2006
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In the August 1970 issue of the SFWA Forum, a publication circulated to members of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Harlan Ellison remarked that the contoversy over the New Wave, which had consumed the field during the late 1960s, seemed to have been "blissfully laid to rest." There never was, he claimed,
any real conflict among the writers. It was all a manufactured
controversy, staged by fans to hype their own participation in the
genre. Their total misunderstanding of what was happening (not unusual
for fans, as history ... shows us) managed to stir up a great deal of
pointless animosity and if it had any real effect I suspect it was in
the ...