Hubble, Nick
Entry updated 29 April 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1965- ) UK academic and author whose earlier work did not focus on Fantastika narrowly conceived, though Mass Observation and Everyday Life: Culture, History, Theory (2005) and The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (2017) [neither listed below] very usefully explore the 1930s world. The Science Fiction Handbook (anth 2013) with Aris Mousoutzanis, a conspectus on the field, maintains a nice balance between the necessities of academic writing and freer forms of apprehension; its emphasis on recent writers precludes wide coverage of American Genre SF; The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (anth 2024) with Nick Bentley, Emily Horton and Philip Tew, though not focused on sf writers, includes comments on several, like Nicola Barker and Mohsin Hamid, whose best work may be nonmimetic. The Science Fiction Of Iain M Banks (anth 2018) with Esther McCallum-Stewart and Joseph Norman assembles useful stabs at understanding the sf work of Iain Banks identified by his use of a middle initial. [JC]
Nicholas Hubble
born London: 10 May 1965
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works as editor
- The Science Fiction Handbook (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013) with Aris Mousoutzanis [nonfiction: in the publisher's Literature and Culture Handbooks series: hb/]
- The Science Fiction Of Iain M Banks (Canterbury, Kent: Gylphi, 2018) with Esther McCallum-Stewart and Joseph Norman [anth: pb/]
- The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024) with Nick Bentley, Emily Horton and Philip Tew [nonfiction: anth: in the publisher's The Decades Series: hb/]
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