The
New Wave is a movement in
science fiction produced in the 1960s and 1970s and characterized by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, a "literary" or artistic sensibility, and a focus on "
soft" as opposed to hard science. New Wave writers often saw themselves as part of the modernist tradition and sometimes mocked the traditions of
pulp science fiction, which some of them regarded as stodgy, adolescent and poorly written.