LOGIN TO CREATE PRACTICE PLANS

A number of critics have creditied the Ace Science Fiction Specials with bringing about a revolution in sf publishing, and I like to think this is at least partly true. But nothing would have changed if there hadn't been editors and publishers who wanted to upgrade the product; and in particular, ti required science fiction writers who could produce superior novels. Fortunately, such writers were there; some of them had contributed to the SF Specials series, some had been writiing quality sf novels already (Samuel R. Delany, Philip K. Dick, and Robert Silverberg are examples), and many writers of talent entered the science fiction field during this period who didn't feelconstrained by the thud-and-blunder traditions of earlier sf.