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Genre Fiction: The Roaring Years: A Collection of Commentaries and Reviews

Peter Nicholls

First published 2022
Publisher Ansible Editions
Format Trade Paperback
Type Nonfiction
Pages 415
Price $22.50
ISBN 9781471616105

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  • "Ansible Editions ebook and paperback editions first published August 2022."
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  • Publisher's website links to lulu.com for ordering. The lulu.com ordering page has "Usually printed in 3 - 5 business days" so this is a print on demand book.
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  • "Cover photograph of Peter Nicholls in 1973 from his own collection, provided by Jack Nicholls." Does not state who took photograph.
  • "Cover design by John D. Berry"
  • "Hop Aboard Kids, We're Going to 1984: Seven Children's Books" and "Illustration, Art, or Cosmic Kitsch? Six SF Art Books" are both given as originally appearing in Foundation, #10 June 1976. However, those titles are not used in that publication. The reviews from that pub have been imported, but verifier will need to ensure they truly do match.
  • "Three Books on Fantastic Films" is given as appearing (untitled) in Foundation, #34 Autumn 1985. The reviews from that pub have been imported, but verifier will need to ensure they truly do match.

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Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Genre Fiction: The Roaring Years: A Collection of Commentaries and Reviews Cover 2022 Ansible Editions eBook Nonfiction

Page Title Author(s) Type
8 The Starlight Roaring: Foreword John Clute Essay
11 Introduction (Genre Fiction: The Roaring Years) Peter Nicholls Essay
14 Solaris Peter Nicholls & Stanislaw Lem Review
28 The Demolition of Pigeon-Holes Peter Nicholls Essay
39 Silent Running Directed by Douglas Trumbull Peter Nicholls Essay
44 Stonehenge Peter Nicholls & Leon Stover & Harry Harrison Review
47 Can You Feel Anything When I Do This? And Other Stories Peter Nicholls & Robert Sheckley Review
50 Report on Eurocon 1 Peter Nicholls Essay
54 SF: The Other Side of Realism Peter Nicholls & Thomas D. Clareson Review
67 An ABC of British Science Fiction – Apocalypse, Bleakness, Catastrophe Peter Nicholls Essay
80 Tolkien: Anatomy of a Romance Peter Nicholls Essay
85 The Great Tradition of Proto Science Fiction Peter Nicholls Essay
112 The Farthest Shore Peter Nicholls & Ursula K. Le Guin Review
125 Inverted World Peter Nicholls & Christopher Priest Review
128 Time Enough for Love Peter Nicholls & Robert A. Heinlein Review
134 The Great Seacon Freakout Peter Nicholls Essay
148 The Death of James Blish Peter Nicholls Essay
150 Jerry Cornelius at the Atrocity Exhibition Peter Nicholls Essay
168 Science Fiction: The Monsters and the Critics Peter Nicholls Essay
184 Hop Aboard Kids, We're Going to 1984: Seven Children's Books Peter Nicholls Essay
189 Illustration, Art, or Cosmic Kitsch? Six SF Art Books Peter Nicholls Essay
196 1975: The Year in Science Fiction Peter Nicholls Essay
202 Publishers' Pantheons Peter Nicholls Essay
208 Consumers' Guide to Recent Writing on SF Peter Nicholls Essay
225 The Dosadi Experiment Peter Nicholls & Frank Herbert Review
228 Camp Concentration Peter Nicholls & Thomas M. Disch Review
232 The Fifth Head of Cerberus Peter Nicholls & Gene Wolfe Review
237 The Regency Buck Stops Here Peter Nicholls Essay
245 Golem 100 Peter Nicholls & Alfred Bester Review
248 To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer: Introduction Peter Nicholls Essay
256 Philip K. Dick: A Cowardly Memoir Peter Nicholls Essay
263 Interzone: The First Eight Issues Peter Nicholls Essay
265 David Cronenberg Peter Nicholls Essay
270 Sarban Peter Nicholls Essay
278 E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet Peter Nicholls & William Kotzwinkle Review
280 Skeleton Crew Peter Nicholls & Stephen King Review
282 Three Books on Fantastic Films Peter Nicholls Essay
291 Contact Peter Nicholls & Carl Sagan Review
293 Too Old at 20 Peter Nicholls Essay
296 Philippa Pearce Peter Nicholls Essay
298 Doors and Breakthroughs Peter Nicholls Essay
302 Innocents Abroad Peter Nicholls Essay
311 Bluebeard Peter Nicholls & Kurt Vonnegut Review
313 The Urth of the New Sun Peter Nicholls & Gene Wolfe Review
319 Ghost Story Peter Nicholls & Peter Straub Review
321 The Man in the High Castle: Two Biographies of Philip K. Dick Peter Nicholls Essay
328 The 1990 World Science Fiction Convention Peter Nicholls Essay
331 Foundation Garments, or The Administrator's New Clothes Peter Nicholls Essay
346 Interview with Diana Wynne Jones Peter Nicholls & Diana Wynne Jones Interview
348 Will the Real Dan Simmons Please Stand Up? Peter Nicholls Essay
353 Conceptual Breakthrough Peter Nicholls Essay
359 The Academy and Science Fiction: Symbiosis or Parasitism Peter Nicholls Essay
366 The Books We Really Read Peter Nicholls Essay
373 Trapped in the Pattern Peter Nicholls Essay
379 Greg Benford Peter Nicholls Essay
384 In Dante's Dark Wood, a Piggy-wig Stood Peter Nicholls Essay
394 Earth Is But a Star Peter Nicholls & Damien Broderick Review
396 Big Dumb Objects and Cosmic Enigmas Peter Nicholls Essay
119|119.1 The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume 1 Peter Nicholls & Harry Harrison & Brian W. Aldiss Review
119|119.2 The Astounding-Analog Reader, Volume 2 Peter Nicholls & Harry Harrison & Brian W. Aldiss Review
20|20.1 Tau Zero Peter Nicholls & Poul Anderson Review
20|20.2 Ringworld Peter Nicholls & Larry Niven Review
324|324.1 Salvage Rites Peter Nicholls & Ian Watson Review
324|324.2 The Fire Worm Peter Nicholls & Ian Watson Review
|184.1 Wild Jack Peter Nicholls & John Christopher Review
|184.2 The Grey King Peter Nicholls & Susan Cooper Review
|184.3 The Far Side of Evil Peter Nicholls & Sylvia Engdahl Review
|184.4 Rebecca's World Peter Nicholls & Terry Nation Review
|184.5 F. 67 Peter Nicholls & Fay Sampson Review
|184.6 Noah's Castle Peter Nicholls & John Rowe Townsend Review
|184.7 No Man's Land Peter Nicholls & Simon Watson Review
|189.1 Science Fiction Art Peter Nicholls & Brian Aldiss Review
|189.2 The Science Fiction Book Peter Nicholls & Franz Rottensteiner Review
|189.3 2000 A.D.: Illustrations from the Golden Age of Science Fiction Pulps Peter Nicholls & Jacques Sadoul Review
|189.4 One Hundred Years of Science Fiction Illustration: 1840-1940 Peter Nicholls & Anthony Frewin Review
|189.5 Fantastic Science-Fiction Art, 1926-1954 Peter Nicholls & Lester del Rey Review
|189.6 The Fantastic Art of Frank Frazetta Peter Nicholls & Frank Frazetta Review
|282.1 Omni's Screen Flights/Screen Fantasies: The Future According to Science Fiction Cinema Peter Nicholls & Danny Peary Review
|282.2 Science Fiction Peter Nicholls & Phil Hardy Review
|282.3 Nightmare Movies: Wide Screen Horror Since 1968 Peter Nicholls & Kim Newman Review

Year Reviewer Publication
2023 Andy Sawyer Strange Horizons, 30 January 2023