Back in the 1960s: Notes By a Man Who Wasn't There.

This article focuses on the science fiction scenario in the 1960s. In the past few years, many things have happened that were scarcely anticipated by the science fiction writers. The science fiction of the 1960's apparently developed in the gap between the two genre of literature which were, those which were obsolete and those which had not yet arrived. Not everything went quietly and smoothly during the 1960's because the world was transformed twice and these changes necessarily affected literature, including science fiction. In this era, Soviet science fiction became a kind of fantastic fiction deriving from Gothic fiction. In the 1960s, it became clear, almost for the first time, how anti-literary the very genre of these fantastic pamphlets had been, a genre bred from polemics and a creation of the Cold War.