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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 New Wave and Backwash : 1960-1980
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Argues that by the early 1960s science fiction writers had become complacent, recycling with minor modifications a small number of tropes and ideas. But with the emergence of the New Age Movement, inspired in part by the Vietnam War, there was a retreat from Enlightenment science and values, and speculative fiction was reinvigorated.

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