wombat_socho

I used to like a fair amount of Ellison's work, but I was young and nihilistic myself back then. These days I'd be happy to sell his books for the shipping price, just to get them out of my apartment.

The problem with throwing out the New Wave as a whole is that it actually includes some good writers and some good work, but I think critics tend to give it too much credit for the changes in SF back in the day. The genre has always reflected (to a certain extent) the state of society in the US & UK, so it's no surprise that SF became more interested in sex and antiheroes in the 1960s and 70s. Still, for every dozen Ellisons and Moorcocks, we did get a decent Silverberg and Zelazny.