Editor's Introduction II: Boys and Science Fiction
2004; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 28; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/uni.2004.0021
ISSN1080-6563
Autores Tópico(s)Themes in Literature Analysis
ResumoI remember with great fondness the science fiction I read as a child and young adult back in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Starting with innumerable DC Comics publications (Green Lantern and Justice League of America were particular favorites), I also devoured the Tom Swift Jr., Rick Brandt, and Tom Corbett series, as well as such better-written books as Eleanor Cameron's The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, Louis Slobodkin's The Spaceship Under the Apple Tree and Ruthven Todd's Space Cat. Then came Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr series, the Winston Juveniles and, of course, everything I could get my hands on by Robert A. Heinlein, Andre Norton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. As young adult literature has grown as a publisher's category, beginning in the late 1960s and continuing up until the present, many of these early works have stayed in print while other talented writers have produced new science fiction for a young adult audience. Among the names that stand out are Sylvia Engdahl, Robert C. O'Brien, John Christopher, Louise Lawrence, Monica Hughes, H. M. Hoover, William Sleator, Virginia Hamilton, and Peter Dickinson. In just the past decade, writers like Lois Lowry (The Giver [1993]), Nancy Farmer (The Ear, the Eye and the Arm [1994] and The House of the Scorpion [2002]), Philip Reeve (Mortal Engines [2001]), and M. T. Anderson (Feed [2002]) have won major awards for their science fiction.
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