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Assembled here are Robert Bloch's best essays from fan-produced magazines, including such classics as "The Seven Ages of Fan," "Through a Picture-Tube, Darkly," "The Demolished Fan," "Poe and Me," "In Memoriam: Weird Tales," and "The Incredible Head-Shrinking Man." Bloch's blend of wry humor, insight, awful puns, and verbal play make the 46 essays and 3 poems in The Eighth Stage of Fandom some of the most interesting and remarkable work in a career filled with the interesting and remarkable. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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All in all, a solid read for anyone who is interested in the state of fandom in the 1930s-1950s--all the essays included seem to have been written in the '50s, but Bloch was already a fandom veteran by then and some of the essays go into some depth on the way things used to be and how they've changed. (I say "seem to" because the book leaves the essays undated; I did find this a bit frustrating, as knowing what year they were published or even what order they were written in would help with understanding the context.)
There is some period-typical sexism, mainly in terms of assuming the Default Fan is male and women interested in sff are rare and sexy unicorns, but overall for something written by a white middle-class guy in the 1950s, I'd say it's better than average on not being a dick about marginalized people in general. ( )