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Notes
* To be fair, and with the comfort of retrospection. I think McCauley’s precursor, Harlan Ellison, had the tougher row to hoe: wrenching the reins of science fiction from the philistines and hacks who had dominated the sf genre from the beginning (indeed, had invented it) was much more difficult than Kirby’s (and, by extension, my own) goal of establishment—after all, horror already had a much more definite literary heritage to draw on. See Hawthorne and Poe for appropriate examples.
* Faddists, anyone?—though I’m not completely at ease with the faddist theory, which might actually put the cart before the horse. There might be a core audience that will read anything, but I think there is a much larger one that will read quality work, literature, when it’s given to them.
** If you haven’t figured it out already, the tide’s meaning is twofold: a contraction of the year the book was originally published, at the cusp of the millennium; and 666 inverted—which means that the tide makes sense even if the booksellers suck it upside-down!