Gary Westfahl
3 Quotations from Gary Westfahl
Campbellian adj. | 1993 | Critical History of Hard SF in Science Fiction Studies July 157 As a way to begin a discussion of hard SF, it is surely useful to examine when and how the term emerged…. Gregory Benford recalled a conversation with Poul Anderson in the early 1960s when they employed the phrase “Campbellian science fiction.”
hard science fiction n. | 1993 | Critical History of Hard SF in Science Fiction Studies July 158 The term kept coming up in the 1960s and 1970s; he said that Clifford D. Simak’s ‘Limiting Factor’ ‘is a puzzle story…perhaps the closest to ‘hard’ science fiction in the anthology under review’ (9/62 155)…In December, 1963, he referred to ‘‘hard’ science fiction—the technical kind’ (86); in May, 1964, he said Fred and Geoffrey Hoyle’s Fifth Planet was ‘to a degree a ‘hard’-type story which might even stir some interest in Hal Clement, chief sculptor of that form’ (87); in the same issue he commented, ‘Maybe we're short of the ‘hard’ technical science fiction of the early years’ (89).
proto-cyberpunk n. | 1993 | in Extrapolation(vol. 34, no. 2) 190 (review of Larry McCafferty’s Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fiction) There are other science fiction writers—A. E. van Vogt, Jack Williamson, Charles L. Harness, even the weirder Heinlein—who could be legitimately cast as proto-cyberpunks.