Hugo Gernsback And The Century Of Science Fiction
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Hugo Gernsback And The Century Of Science Fiction
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Author : Gary Westfahl
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2007-08-01
Hugo Gernsback And The Century Of Science Fiction written by Gary Westfahl and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
An examination of science fiction editor and author Hugo Gernsback's career, this critical study explores the many ways in which his work influenced the genre. It summarizes the science fiction theories of Gernsback and his successors, considers his efforts to define science fiction both verbally and visually, and for the first time offers detailed studies of his rarest periodicals, including Technocracy Review, Superworld Comics, and Science-Fiction Plus. An analysis of his ground-breaking novel, Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660, and its influences on a variety of science fiction novels, films and television programs is also offered.
The Perversity Of Things
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Author : Hugo Gernsback
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2016-11-21
The Perversity Of Things written by Hugo Gernsback and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But while science fiction’s annual Hugo Awards were named in his honor, there has been surprisingly little understanding of how the genre began among a community of tinkerers all drawn to Gernsback’s vision of comprehending the future of media through making. In The Perversity of Things, Grant Wythoff makes available texts by Hugo Gernsback that were foundational both for science fiction and the emergence of media studies. Wythoff argues that Gernsback developed a means of describing and assessing the cultural impact of emerging media long before media studies became an academic discipline. From editorials and blueprints to media histories, critical essays, and short fiction, Wythoff has collected a wide range of Gernsback’s writings that have been out of print since their magazine debut in the early 1900s. These articles cover such topics as television; the regulation of wireless/radio; war and technology; speculative futures; media-archaeological curiosities like the dynamophone and hypnobioscope; and more. All together, this collection shows how Gernsback’s publications evolved from an electrical parts catalog to a full-fledged literary genre. The Perversity of Things aims to reverse the widespread misunderstanding of Gernsback within the history of science fiction criticism. Through painstaking research and extensive annotations and commentary, Wythoff reintroduces us to Gernsback and the origins of science fiction.
Golden Age And Beyond
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Author : John Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
Release Date : 2006-08-15
Golden Age And Beyond written by John Hamilton and has been published by ABDO Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Introduces young readers to the world of science fiction.
Sense Of Wonder
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Author : Leigh Grossman
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2011-12-20
Sense Of Wonder written by Leigh Grossman and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-20 with Fiction categories.
A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!
Ralph 124c 41
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Author : Hugo Gernsback
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Ralph 124c 41 written by Hugo Gernsback and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Fiction categories.
The eponymous protagonist saves the life of the heroine by directing energy remotely at an approaching avalanche. As the novel goes on, he describes the technological wonders of the modern world, frequently using the phrase "As you know..." The hero finally rescues the heroine by travelling into space on his own "space flyer" to rescue her from the villain's clutches.
Parameters Of Science Fiction
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Author : Vijaykumar R. Punekar, 1st
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07
Parameters Of Science Fiction written by Vijaykumar R. Punekar, 1st and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07 with categories.
Science Fiction, as a new genre, existed at the beginning of the twentieth century when an American radio engineer and magazine editor, Hugo Gernsback labeled the new genre as 'Scientifiction' in 1926, to characterize the contents of the magazine Amazing Stories. Later, the term was rechristened as Astounding Science Fiction in 1938. It was only in the 1950's or after World War II that the label Science Fiction was applied to paperback novels, incorporating science.
Science Fiction The Wonder Of Human Imagination
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Author : Andreas Sofroniou
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2017-09-19
Science Fiction The Wonder Of Human Imagination written by Andreas Sofroniou and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with Fiction categories.
Science Fiction explores the probable consequences of some improbable or impossible transformation of the basic conditions of human (or intelligent non-human) existence. This transformation need not be a technological invention, but may be some mutation of known biological or physical reality: artificial or extraterrestrial life-forms and travel through time are favourite subjects. Science Fiction stories may involve Utopian political speculation, or satire, but most rely on the marvellous appeal of fantasy. The term Science Fiction was first given general currency by Hugo Gernsback, editor of the popular Amazing Stories magazine from 1926. Once uniformly dismissed as pulp trash, SF gained greater respect from the 1950s, as writers like Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, and John Wyndham expanded its range; themes of alien invasion and brain-washing became especially popular at the height of the Cold War.
Publishing And The Science Fiction Canon
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Author : Adam Roberts
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-08
Publishing And The Science Fiction Canon written by Adam Roberts and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Science fiction was being written throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but it underwent a rapid expansion of cultural dissemination and popularity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. This Element explores the ways this explosion in interest in 'scientific romance', that informs today's global science fiction culture, manifests the specific historical exigences of the revolutions in publishing and distribution technology. H. G. Wells, Jules Verne and other science fiction writers embody in their art the advances in material culture that mobilize, reproduce and distribute with new rapidity, determining the cultural logic of twentieth-century science fiction in the process.
Futures Of The Past
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Author : Ivy Roberts
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-06-17
Futures Of The Past written by Ivy Roberts and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-17 with Fiction categories.
Science fiction boasts a deceptively long history, extending as far back as the 19th century. This anthology pairs original essays that introduce short stories of vintage science fiction. Critical introductions written by international experts contextualize these stories from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Inclusions range from legendary authors like Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe to lesser-known figures like E.P Mitchell, George Parsons Lathrop, and Franklin Ruth.
Speculative Modernism
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Author : William Gillard
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-11-08
Speculative Modernism written by William Gillard and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Speculative modernists--that is, British and American writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror during the late 19th and early 20th centuries--successfully grappled with the same forces that would drive their better-known literary counterparts to existential despair. Building on the ideas of the 19th-century Gothic and utopian movements, these speculative writers anticipated literary Modernism and blazed alternative literary trails in science, religion, ecology and sociology. Such authors as H.G. Wells and H.P. Lovecraft gained widespread recognition--budding from them, other speculative authors published fascinating tales of individuals trapped in dystopias, of anti-society attitudes, post-apocalyptic worlds and the rapidly expanding knowledge of the limitless universe. This book documents the Gothic and utopian roots of speculative fiction and explores how these authors played a crucial role in shaping the culture of the new century with their darker, more evolved themes.