Evolution by stephen baxter6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() But rather than regurgitating it as many of his contemporaries do, he flicks and tweaks with restless invention. Like Aldiss, Baxter knows and honours the genre. Until he was rescued by the New Wave eruption of like-minded innovators. He casually tossed incandescent prose as potent as intellectual hand-grenades into the incestuous pool of complacent spaceship and robot romances. Aldiss had emerged during the 1950’s – also an inauspicious time for British writers, with SF dominated by formulaic if often-entertaining storytellers. Yet Stephen Baxter has something of Brian Aldiss about him, genre-literate, and well-capable of illuminating its embers with re-ignitions of stunning invention. Science Fiction had begun to eat itself in pastiche repetitions and reformulations of increasing dullness. All the major writers had already written their major works, all the tropes had been established, explored, and chased down to the final gasps of their expression. Stephen Baxter emerged at an inauspicious time in the evolution of the genre. ![]()
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