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Kingsley Amis: Science fiction
Amis's critical interest in science fiction led to
New Maps of Hell (1960), his interpretation of the genre's literary qualities. He was particularly enthusiastic about the dystopian works of Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth, and, in
New Maps of Hell, he coined the term "comic inferno", describing a type of humorous dystopia, particularly common to the works of Robert Sheckley. With the Sovietologist Robert Conquest, he produced the science fiction anthology series
Spectrum I–IV, which heavily drew upon the 1950s magazine Astounding Science Fiction for sources. He wrote two science fiction novels,
The Alteration, an alternate history novel set in a twentieth-century Great Britain where the Reformation never occurred; and the supernatural-horror novel,
The Green Man, which the BBC adapted for television.
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