State of the Project

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For those who do not know, this is Solar Flares: A Cultural History of Science Fiction in the Seventies

Introduction: Needs rationalising, and the autobiographical needs a thinking through.

1. The Dinosaur's Last Gasp: needs five hundred words on Sturgeon; waiting for Volume XIIII of the stories to arrive.
   
2. The New Wave: large chunks to be written, most of the research done.
   
3. Beyond Apollo: written, aside from 800 words on Malzberg and 1,300 words on TV space operas
   
4. Big Dumb Objects: done
   
5. The Rise of Fantasy: done
   
6. Race: done, but needs some stuff on music.
   
7. Vietnam and the Counterculture: islands done, but not yet coalesced.
   
8. Post-Imperial Melancholy: done, only 200 words over.
   
9. Environmentalism: done, aside from the comet/meteor disasters adding
   
10. Feminism: pretty well done, but needs some pruning and stuff on Khatru and Joan! Vinge!
    
11. Homosexuality: a mess, and needs more written. 75% there.
    
12. Children's Fiction: still in progress and clearly a can of worms on the defining the genre front; 1200 words on animation, 1500 on books needed, which is not enough and compromises will need to made to avoid listomanis.
    
13. Chariots of the Gods: a couple of hundred words needed, and some rationalisation.
    
14. Architecture: done.
    
15. Blockbusters: done.
    
16. Metafiction and Postmodernism: done.

Epilogue: know what to write, but haven't.

I make that something like 17,000 words by the end of the 2010... asap. My to do list is getting longer...