Hubble, Nick
Entry updated 29 September 2025. 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.
Though it is not focused on Fantastika as such, The Decades Series of nonfiction critical Anthologies – whose first volume listed below appeared in 2014 but whose coverage begins chronologically with The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (anth 2025) edited by Tamás Bényei, Shene Boskanio and Nick Hubble – provides in its encompassing frame studies of a range of authors with entries in this encyclopedia. The 1920s, for example, incorporates takes on Cicely Hamilton, Winifred Holtby, Wyndham Lewis, Rose Macaulay, Naomi Mitchison, H G Wells and others. Hubble's involvement in the series is registered through his co-editing some other titles, including The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (anth 2024) with Nick Bentley, Emily Horton and Philip Tew, which includes comments on several authors, 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
works (selected)
works as editor
series
The Decades Series (selected)
Titles are here listed by internal chronology.
- The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) with Tamás Bényei and Shene Boskanio [nonfiction: anth: in the publisher's The Decades Series: hb/]
- The 1950s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) with Nick Bentley and Alice Ferrebe [nonfiction: anth: in the publisher's The Decades Series: hb/]
- The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014) with John McLeod and Philip Tew [nonfiction: anth: in the publisher's The Decades Series: hb/]
- The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015) with Nick Bentley and Leigh Wilson [nonfiction: anth: in the publisher's The Decades Series: hb/]
- 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/]
individual titles 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 [nonfiction: anth: pb/]
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