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The New Wave was a literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s that sought to break science fiction free from the formulaic storytelling structures of the Golden Age.

New wave writers blended the familiar working vocabulary of sf — space travel, future technology, alien cultures — with experimental narrative structures and counter-culture attitudes to create works that tested (and sometimes blasted right through) the limits of the genre. The term speculative fiction was adopted to describe these works of literary ambition that bent the boundaries of traditional sf and fantasy.

New Worlds magazine under editor Michael Moorcock and Harlan Ellison's 1967 anthology Dangerous Visions were important incubators for new wave sf in short form.

Writers associated with the new wave include Moorcock, Ellison, Samuel R. Delany, J.G. Ballard, Joanna Russ and Philip K. Dick.

The new wave dissipated as a distinct movement after the mid-1970s, as genre fiction itself broadened to include such disparate trends as hard science fiction, mythic fantasy, and cyberpunk.

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