NEW EXHIBIT

The UMass Amherst Libraries host an exhibit, “Uncertain Futures: Americans and Science Fiction in the Early Cold War Era,” through October 31, 2010, in the Special Collections Reading Room on Floor 25, Du Bois Library, UMass Amherst. The exhibit can be viewed Monday through Friday, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

“Uncertain Futures: Americans and Science Fiction in the Early Cold War Era,” includes science fiction magazines from 1945-1965, as well as documents and photographs of prominent cold war-era science fiction authors, editors, and fans.

The exhibit explores the rise of American science fiction in the first two decades of the cold war. It draws on primary source research and the holdings of the UMass Amherst Science Fiction Society to argue that the burgeoning paperback book market and the devotion of science fiction fans were as much responsible for the genre's rocket-ship rise as the atomic bomb and the cold war.