Gunn New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction 328 Nevertheless, writers associated with the New Wave have been credited with introducing new narrative strategies into science fiction, with releasing the power of science fiction images as metaphor, and with weakening the boundaries that had long separated science fiction from Mainstream Fiction. Delany, and Robert Silverberg, have on frequent occasions expressed disdain for or confusion over the term. Similarly, many of the other writers associated with this movement, such as Brian Aldiss, J. Although Harlan Ellison’s anthology of original stories the preceding year ( Dangerous Visions, Garden City: Doubleday, 1967) has sometimes been retroactively credited with unleashing the American version of the New Wave, and though Ellison spoke of the book as ‘a revolution’ of ‘new horizons, new forms, new styles, new challenges’, Ellison himself has expressed chagrin at having once been labeled the ‘chief prophet’ of the New Wave in America (by The New Yorker : ‘The Talk of the Town: Evolution and Ideation’ ).
1 ) to refer to the highly metaphorical and sometimes experimental fiction that began to appear in the English magazine New Worlds after Michael Moorcock assumed the editorship in 1964, and that was later popularized in the United States through Merril’s own appallingly titled anthology England Swings SF: Stories of Speculative Fiction (Garden City: Doubleday, 1968). In science fiction, the term was introduced by Judith Merril in a 1966 essay for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (‘Books’, 30, no. New Wave, Françoise Giroud’s term ( nouvelle vague ) to describe a group of younger French film directors who emerged in the late 1950s has since been enthusiastically appropriated by promoters of almost any unconventional movement within a popular art form previously characterized by conventions or formulae. Wolfe Critical Terms for Science Fiction & Fantasy 81 It tends to be self-consciously stylistic, and heavily underscores such present-day problems as pollution, racism, and overpopulation. ‘New Wave’ science fiction, (Generic.) Science fiction that emphasizes raw sex, bone-crunching violence, and deep pessimism about ‘the meaning of it all’. Really, I’m no part of the new wave (don’t even like their stories madly). Whatever the answer, there is no question at all about the ‘new wave’: Tubb, Aldiss, and to get to my point, Kenneth Bulmer and John Brunner.] It’s a moot question whether Carnell discovered the ‘big names’ of British science fiction-Wyndham, Clarke, Russell, Christopher-or whether they discovered him.
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