Martin Amis, Invasion of the Space Invaders

Nicolas Tredell (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1982

Places

United Kingdom (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction

Resources

Invasion of the Space Invaders (1982) is a nonfiction book in which Martin Amis explores the widespread craze for “space invader” games in video arcades in the early 1980s. A minor but distinctive item in the Amis canon, it usually receives no more than a passing mention, if that, in studies of Amis’s work, but it contains some bravura Amisian prose and a sheaf of cultural insights, and relates to his major 1980s fiction. Now out of print and expensive to buy secondhand, Invasion has a visually striking A4 format, with a brightly-coloured cover like that of a graphic novel and a subtitle that reads: “AN ADDICT’S GUIDE TO BATTLE TACTICS, BIG SCORES AND THE BEST MACHINES” – not a wholly accurate description of t…

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Citation: Tredell, Nicolas. "Invasion of the Space Invaders". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 December 2012 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34868, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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