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

On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:20:58 -0000 (UTC), James Nicoll wrote:

The Way The Future Was by Frederik Pohl
 
The good-natured autobiography of an amiable SF author.
 
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/strange-things-happen

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.