Mike Ashley has specialised in the history of science fiction and fantasy for over 30 years. He is the author and editor of over sixty books that in total have sold over a million copies worldwide.

"The information Mike Ashley has put together is really astonishing: researchers of the field, and anyone who's interested in popular fiction of the period are going to fine this book an immense help." Andy Sawyer, University of Liverpool

"Taken as a whole, Ashley's ongoing history of the SF magazine is an astonishing achievement. This is vital work in uncovering and making available elements in the publishing history of SF that would otherwise be easily forgotten or neglected." Derek Johnston, Fantastika Journal

"Ashley has a skilled historian's sense of proportion... he picks up on the rise of various themes in science fiction and notes the importance of the blurring of the lines between genres... his work focuses on some of the most well-known aspects of science fiction literature." Gary K. Wolfe, Locus

"Ashley writes with skill, passion and insight. The excitement he feels for the genre is apparent on every page. The depth and breadth of the research is stunning, covering countries as diverse as Uruguay, Croatia, Finland - and even Mongolia, which had a pocketbook sf magazine between 1976 and 1990." Mark Greener, Fortean Times

"Science Fiction Rebels is essential reading for anyone needing to make sense of a decade of competing obsessions and styles, complex emergent technologies and mounting financial pressures on publishers. Ashley has produced a fascinating chronicle, a piece of thorough and dazzling scholarship and an invaluable work of reference." Andy Hedgecock, Foundation