It was in that year when the fashion in cruelty demanded not only the crucifixion of peasant children, but a similar fate for ...

The explosion of the New Wave was the explosion of the genre itself. Aldiss senses a "rapprochement" with the mainstream, the return from the "ghetto of Retarded Boyhood" and asserts "Science Fiction ...

It establishes Ballard as a major British writer of the “New Wave” of science fiction. His stories bring psychological interest and an experimental literary style to science fiction themes.

And even, eventually, the value of a female hero. “The Lathe of Heaven” is a strong example of the sort of New Wave science fiction that was blossoming when the novel was published in 1971.