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Editorial Introduction : The British SF Boom What makes a Boom a Boom ? Sometime in the late 1980s and early 1990s , as cyberpunk was fading into the light of common day , an explosion of creativity in sf ignited in the UK . Many of us ...
Editorial Introduction : The British SF Boom What makes a Boom a Boom ? Sometime in the late 1980s and early 1990s , as cyberpunk was fading into the light of common day , an explosion of creativity in sf ignited in the UK . Many of us ...
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... Boom has unfolded . For each , the Boom comes out of a particular historical moment when British culture navigated between powerful opposing tides : Thatcherism and anti - establishment resistance , the American umbrella and the EU ...
... Boom has unfolded . For each , the Boom comes out of a particular historical moment when British culture navigated between powerful opposing tides : Thatcherism and anti - establishment resistance , the American umbrella and the EU ...
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Andrew M. Butler Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom 1. " There certainly seems to be something of a boom . To a certain extent these things are always artefacts - there's no objective criteria by which one can judge ' boom ...
Andrew M. Butler Thirteen Ways of Looking at the British Boom 1. " There certainly seems to be something of a boom . To a certain extent these things are always artefacts - there's no objective criteria by which one can judge ' boom ...
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