Thanks for the info. I have the Clute encyclopedia, which gives a nice
timeline of events. The trouble is they didn't call it the New Wave then (I
don't think) but they knew they were on to something. Especially Ellison in
his forward to DV. Do you know the name of the Del Rey book?
orb wrote:
> The term 'New Wave' was first used by film critics in 1960 to label French
> movies with an unglamorous style. I learned about such in 1975, and two
> years later I was surprised to see a rock music movement termed New Wave.
> The comics media had their New Wave in 1986 with independently published
> and nontraditionally styled comic books and graphic novels.
>
> According to SFE (the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, by John Clute and
> peter Nichols), the term's first connection to SF was in 1964 when SF
> critics labeled certain British fan magazines, and in 1965 it was applied
> to SF itself to describe the stories in New Worlds magazine. 'New Wave'
> SF took two years or less to be planted on American soil, as Harlan
> Ellison's Dangerous Visions shown.
>
> Lester Del Rey had given the date as 1962 -- he had written a history of
> the genre and broke it down into 12-year periods (1926, the Gernsback
> Years; 1938, the Golden Age; 1950, the Age of Acceptance; 1962, the Age of
> Rebellion; 1974, the Fifth Age; he had not labeled the ages from 1986 or
> 1998, so what do WE call them?) Isaac Asimov edited a series of
> anthologies to represent the Golden Age of SF from 1939 to 1963, and said
> that the whole world changed in 1939 and again in 1964, when New Wave
> came.
>
> orb
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