Don Sakers

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New Wave n. 2020 D. Sakers Reference Library in Analog Science Fiction & Fact May–June 200/2 Sometimes there’s a chicken-and-egg question of whether changing audience made SF change, or changes in SF brought in new readers. With the ‘New Wave’ of the 1960s/1970s era, there’s no question: the youth-centered counterculture movement, which started in Britain and moved to the U.S., definitely preceded SF’s move toward more diversity in characters, themes, and literary experimentation. Please note, I’m not implying that greedy SF writers looked around and said, ‘Ah, here’s a new social trend we can exploit.’ The pioneers of the New Wave, just like those of all the other shifts, were predominantly writers new in the field, bringing with them the sensibilities of the particular social evolution.
sf-ish adj. 2015 D. Sakers Reference Library in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Oct. 105/2 At one end of the scale would be unquestioned SF titles like[…]Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. At the other end would be….oh, I don't know, what's the least SF-ish book ever published? The Toledo, Ohio phone book?
xenopsychology n. 2012 D. Sakers Reference Library in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Nov. 105/1 Surely the most interesting examples of xenopsychology, though, come from an entirely different approach. Here, the author begins with specifics of alien biology and environment, and works from there to develop and deduce psychology.