The History of the Science-fiction Magazine, Volume 1This is the first of three volumes that chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. This first volume looks at the exuberant years of the pulp magazines. It traces the growth and development of the science fiction magazines from when Hugo Gernsback launched the very first, Amazing Stories, in 1926 through to the birth of the atomic age and the death of the pulps in the early 1950s. These were the days of the youth of science fiction, when it was brash, raw and exciting: the days of the first great space operas by Edward Elmer Smith and Edmond Hamilton, through the cosmic thought variants by Murray Leinster, Jack Williamson and others to the early 1940s when John W. Campbell at Astounding did his best to nurture the infant genre into adulthood. Under him such major names as Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, A. E. van Vogt and Theodore Sturgeon emerged who, along with other such new talents as Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke, helped create modern science fiction. For over forty years magazines were at the heart of science fiction and this book considers how the magazines, and their publishers, editors and authors influenced the growth and perception of this fascinating genre. |
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Contents
An Amazing Experiment | 45 |
Towards the Golden Age | 93 |
The Golden Age | 135 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The History of the Science-fiction Magazine, Volume 1 Volume 1 of Gateways to Forever: The History of the Science-fiction Magazine from 1970 to 1980, Michael Ashley Volume 24 of Liverpool Science Fiction Text Volume 24 of Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies Liverpool University Press Series Liverpool science fiction texts and studies Online access: EBSCO Humanities International Complete The History of the Science-fiction Magazine, Michael Ashley Volume 1 of The Time Machines: The Story of the Science-fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950, Michael Ashley |
| Authors | Michael Ashley, Mike Ashley |
| Edition | 2, revised |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press, 2000 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | Jan 28, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0853238650, 9780853238652 |
| Length | 300 pages |
| Subjects | › Language Arts & Disciplines / General Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy |
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