Lu sur le blog de Neal Asher :

And an old favourite in this rarified atmosphere is ‘the death of SF’ (or fantasy, or the short story, whatever). It surfaces with the almost metronic regularity of a dead fish at the tide line (stirred up, no-doubt, by some ‘new wave'). SF isn't dying, it hasn’t been ill, and frequent terminal diagnoses often see the undertaker clutching a handful of nails and a hammer and scratching his head over an empty coffin. However, discussions about this demise have been resurrecting themselves in only slightly altered form since I first read 'about' SF rather than SF itself. I'm betting there was some plonker declaring the death of SF the moment Sputnik beeped or just after Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon. Really, the whole pointless staggering debate needs a nice fat stake driven through its heart.

Sur le forum de la revue Asimov, Dave Truesdale explique qu'en effet, Anthony Boucher (co-fondateur de F&SF) pensait qu'avec le lancement de Spoutnik, la science-fiction était salement atteinte et que cela allait l'empêcher d'avoir de nouveaux lecteurs.


Erion