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SideburnsOfDoom on April 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Commi...

Yes, indeed. I was thinking of the pulp magazines, and also to an extent the Original Series of Star Trek.

See Jeannette Ng's "2019 John W. Campbell Award" acceptance speech on the topic, and commentary that followed.

andybak on April 13, 2025 [–]

You're doing a genre with a complex timeline somewhat of a disservice here. Dick's career spanned two or three of the broad "waves" of SF. He was embraced by the New Wave authors probably more than any other writer not of their generation.

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