![]() In terms of Scifi, the 50s is when the future as we see it now was born – when, in the (extremely, overwhelmingly male and) white heat of creation, Scifi Authors embedded aliens, robots, rockets, FTL, distant journeys, ecological collapse, venusian colonisation and nuclear armageddon so firmly into the collective psyche that when we think Science Fiction it’s one malt shared with your best guy away from being in black and white. So three book recommends was never going to be enough to talk about the decade, and it was foolish of me to assume it was. ![]() ![]() The 1950s exert a real and pressing pull on the cultural world we live in and “Ok Boomer” isn’t just a funny way of annoying one, it’s an acknowledgement that the world they created is crap, but by god we have to live in it anyway. If there’s something that far too many people in the western world loved in the late 20th century, it’s the 1950s. ![]()
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