Re: (Tears) The Way The Future Was by Frederik Pohl

In article <pan$3f3b$800c6118$9324144d$920328b3@cpacker.org>,
Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:

On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:20:58 -0000 (UTC), James Nicoll wrote:
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The Way The Future Was by Frederik Pohl
 
The good-natured autobiography of an amiable SF author.
 
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/strange-things-happen

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You said "Future was one of a number of autobiographies and
historical accounts of SF that came out around this time."
Could that activity account for the broad bump in the frequency
of occurrence of "science fiction" in published literature
from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s?
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?
content=science+fiction%2C%28spirituality+*+.
5%29&year_start=1900&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US&smoothing=0
( or https://tinyurl.com/bddmcn5n )
"spirituality" included for comparison with other zeitgeist-y
phenomena.

I think it's the other way around. SF went through a boom and
there was a market for books about SF creators as a side effect.
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