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Source: SF Commentary (www.pandora.nla.gov.au/)
Alternative title: 40th Anniversary Edition, Part 1
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... no. 80 August 2010 of SF Commentary : The Independent Magazine About Science Fiction est. 1969 SF Commentary : The Independent Magazine About Science Fiction
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* Contents derived from the , 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
New Wave and Backwash : 1960-1980, Damien Broderick , single work column

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.

(p. 7-15)
Pinlighters, John Baxter , single work correspondence
John Baxter responds to a review of his work, A Pound of Paper. He also defends his claim that Gerald Murnane is one of Australia's most visionary writers.
(p. 76)
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