2.The New Wave

　　The New Wave has become a term used to describe the work of aloosely aligned group of SF writers in the 1960s and 1970s who sought to instill SF with greater social and political relevance，more mature subject matte~and high literary quality．7hey attempted to bring science fiction into the literary mainstream by emphasizing style rather than scientific accuracy．New Wave writers shared the notion that the world was notimproving and expressed a distrust of science and technology．The term New Wave sometimes has been applied only to a specific and small group of British writers--most notably Michael Moorcock．J．G Ballard and Brian Aldiss，John Brunneg and Christopher Priest．They explored in their works such controversialideas as sex，race and homosexuality.questioned the conventional values of government，capitalism，consumerism，conformity，religion，science and technology，and were more concerned with the“soft”sciences of psychology，sociology，and anthropology rather than the“hard”sciences of technology and engineering．Their works are characterized by a high degree of experimentation，both in form and in content．a“l(fā)iterary’’or artistic sensibility，and a new focus on“inner space’’as opposed to the“outer space”of the older SF writers．Character development becomes central to theft stories．Their plots become more complex，recursive with flashbacks and fragmented sections．Compared with the Golden Age positivism，New Wave SF is more pessimistic in its perception of the universe and technology．The differences between the New Wave and conventional SF are most commonly drawn as being a divide between science fiction and mainstream Iiterature

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