New Wave (Science Fiction)

The New Wave was a science fiction movement of the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by a great degree of experimentation with the form and content of stories, often influenced by the styles of non-science-fiction literature, and by an emphasis on the psychological and social sciences as opposed to the physical sciences. New Wave authors often considered themselves part of the modernist tradition of fiction, and the movement was conceived as a deliberate change from the traditions of the pulp-magazine science fiction that had peaked during the Golden Age, which many New Wave writers considered irrelevant or unambitious.