Censorship is never welcome – by those on the bitter end.
And yet, it happens sometimes.
Even by those who feel they have our ’best interests’ at heart. Like those satirically called, ’Masters of the Universe’.
So it’s not surprising to find that there are Space Opera Tales and other satirical works found on the simple subject of censorship.
Immerse yourself in this anthology and explore your own opinions about this subject.
Because satire can be entertaining, even inspiring…except, perhaps, to those with thin skins.
Space Opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, melodramatic adventure, interplanetary battles, chivalric romance, and risk-taking. Set mainly or entirely in outer space, it usually involves conflict between opponents possessing advanced abilities, futuristic weapons, and other sophisticated technology.
The term has no relation to music, as in a traditional opera, but is instead a play on the terms ’soap opera’, a melodramatic television series, and ’horse opera’, which was coined during the 1930s to indicate a formulaic Western movie. Space operas emerged in the 1930s and continue to be produced in literature, film, comics, television, and video games.
The Golden Age of Pulp Magazine Fiction derives from pulp magazines (often referred to as ’the pulps’) as they were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s. The term pulp derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazines printed on higher-quality paper were called ’glossies’ or ’slicks’. (Wikipedia)
The pulps gave rise to the term pulp fiction. Pulps were the successors to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short-fiction magazines of the 19th century. Although many writers wrote for pulps, the magazines were proving grounds for those authors like Robert Heinlein, Louis La Mour, ’Max Brand’, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and many others. The best writers moved onto longer fiction required by paperback publishers. Many of these authors have never been out of print, even long after their passing.
Anthology containing:
- The Mighty Dead by William Campbell Gault
- Nonsenseorship by Various
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