Baker, Brian (2013) A, B and C : experiments in science fiction. Continuum. ISBN n/a (Submitted)
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A ground-breaking study of the ‘New Wave’ science fiction of the 1960s, which uses a range of different experimental forms to investigate the techniques of this innovative form of science fiction and of the imagination of the 1960s, the A, B and C are British writers Brian Aldiss and JG Ballard, and Michael Moorcock’s character Jerry Cornelius. Imaginative analyses of each of these are woven into an integrated whole. This study is itself part of a new development in literary criticism, the ‘critical/creative’, in which literary texts are analysed through re-writing, pastiche, collage, and the generation of alternate or counter-texts. While constituting an innovative and interactive analysis of science fiction, the 1960s and experimental fiction, the book engages with the contemporary culture of the ‘remix’ and ‘mashup’ to encourage the reader to embrace strategies of intervention and re-production in literary study. It is a book that embraces the strategies of literary criticism, creative non-fiction and experimental fiction to offer a new way to approach New Wave science fiction and the turbulent decade that produced it.