British literature

Science fiction John Wyndham wrote post-apocalyptic science fiction, his most notable works being The Day of the Triffids 1951, and The Midwich Cuckoos 1957. Other important writers in this genre are Sir Arthur C. Clarke 2001: A Space Odyssey, Brian Aldiss, and Michael Moor­cock. Moorcock was involved with the 'New Wave' of science fiction writers “part of whose aim was to invest the genre with literary merit”^[155] Similarly J. G. Ballard (1930-) “became known in the 1960s as the most promi­nent of the 'New Wave' science fiction writers”.^[156] A later major figure in science fiction was Iain M. Banks who created a fictional anarchist, socialist, and utopian society the Culture. Nobel prize winner Doris Lessing also published a sequence of five science fiction novels the Canopus in Argos: Archives between 1979 and 1983.