New Wave - Atarashii Nami

Japanese: 新しい波 - あたらしいなみ
New Wave - Atarashii Nami

...And yet, this aspect of science fiction has been passed down to the present day, with assumptions such as world peace being achieved if several great nations join forces (regardless of the will of smaller nations), or that robots will be given intelligence and serve humans, all of which were merely opportunistic thought experiments. In the 1960s, major events such as environmental pollution, America's defeat in Vietnam, and the arrival of humans on the moon called for a change in the world view, and people began to feel that technological society had reached a dead end, leading to the birth of a reform movement called the "New Wave." In the UK, New Worlds, edited by M. Moorcock, was the only science fiction magazine, but with the emergence of new writers such as Ballard and Aldiss, it began to actively criticize American science fiction, and in the US, this was supported by J. Merrill, and a new group of writers such as SR Delany, H. Ellison, Le Guin, K. Wilhelm, and TM Disch appeared with similar arguments, sparking a major controversy. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "new wave" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかもSFのそうした面は今日まで受け継がれており,幾つかの大国が手を結べば(小さな民族の意志など無関係に)世界平和が実現するとか,ロボットに知性を与えながら人間に奉仕するものという前提を設けるなど,いわば思考実験としてはいとも御都合主義的なものでしかなかった。折しも60年代に入って環境汚染やベトナムでのアメリカの敗戦,月への人間の到着など幾つかの大きな事件が世界観の変更を求め,テクノロジー社会の行きづまりを人々が感じ始めたとき,〈新しい波(ニュー・ウェーブ)〉と呼ばれる改革運動が生まれた。イギリスではムアコックM.Moorcockが編集する《ニュー・ワールズ》が唯一のSF雑誌だったが,バラード,オールディスなど新しい作家たちの出現とともに,積極的にアメリカSFの批判を始め,これをアメリカではメリルJ.Merrilが支持し,ディレーニS.R.Delany,エリソンH.Ellison,ル・グイン,ウィルヘルムK.Wilhelm,ディッシュT.M.Dischといった新しい作家群が同様の主張のもとに登場したため,大きな論争をまき起こした。…

※「新しい波」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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