PIERCE, John J.

PIERCE, John J.
(1941-)
   US editor and critic with a background in FANDOM, editor of a FANZINE, Renaissance, in the 1960s, and at that time author of polemical articles about the damage he saw being wrought on sf by writers of the NEW WAVE. JJP ed GALAXY SCIENCE FICTION Nov 1977-Mar/Apr 1979, years in whichthrough no special fault of his the magazine was rapidly declining. Later he published an ambitious trilogy of critical books about sf, A Study in Imagination and Evolution, which together form a kind of HISTORY OF SF:Foundations of Science Fiction (1987), Great Themes of Science Fiction (1987),When Worlds Collide (1989) and Odd Genre: A Study in Imagination and Evolution (1994). These may deserve more discussion than they appear to have received. JJP's prose is accessible and the books are well organized, but their ideology is deeply conservative in the sense that non- GENRE SF is seen by JJP as effectively not sf at all. Within the books' strong bias toward HARD SF are some well informed discussions about the different ways in which sf has invented the future. Much of the analysis is thematic, some philosophical.
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