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The Impact of the New Wave: SF of the 1960s and 1970s

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Roberts, A. (2016). The Impact of the New Wave: SF of the 1960s and 1970s. In: The History of Science Fiction. Palgrave Histories of Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56957-8_12

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