Air Wonder Stories, August 1929

Air Wonder Stories, August 1929
Author: Henrik Dahl Juve
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1312107472

After losing control of Amazing Stories, Hugo Gernsback began AIR WONDER STORIES in 1929. Stories in this issue are: THE SILENT DESTROYER by Henrik Dahl Juve, BEYOND GRAVITY by Ed Earl Repp, THE ARK OF THE COVENANT (Part 2) by Victor MacClure, and THE PLANET'S AIR MASTER by Edward E. Chappelow.

Air Wonder Stories, November 1929

Air Wonder Stories, November 1929
Author: Ed Earl Repp
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1312107553

Contents: CITIES IN THE AIR (Part I) by Edmond Hamilton, WHEN SPACE RIPPED OPEN by Ralph W. Wilkins, SUITCASE AIRPLANES by E. D. Skinner, BEYOND THE AURORA by Ed Earl Repp, THE SECOND SHELL by Jack Williamson, and THE CRYSTAL RAY by Raymond Gallun.

Science-fiction

Science-fiction
Author: Everett Franklin Bleiler
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 780
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780873386043

Complementing Science-Fiction: The Early Years, which surveys science-fiction published in book form from its beginnings through 1930, the present volume covers all the science-fiction printed in the genre magazines--Amazing, Astounding, and Wonder, along with offshoots and minor magazines--from 1926 through 1936. This is the first time this historically important literary phenomenon, which stands behind the enormous modern development of science-fiction, has been studied thoroughly and accurately. The heart of the book is a series of descriptions of all 1,835 stories published during this period, plus bibliographic information. Supplementing this are many useful features: detailed histories of each of the magazines, an issue by issue roster of contents, a technical analysis of the art work, brief authors' biographies, poetry and letter indexes, a theme and motif index of approximately 30,0000 entries, and general indexes. Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years is not only indispensable for reference librarians, collectors, readers, and scholars interested in science-fiction, it is also of importance to the study of popular culture during the Great Depression in the United States. Most of its data, which are largely based on rare and almost unobtainable sources, are not available elsewhere.

The Gernsback Days

The Gernsback Days
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0809510553

"In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in Hugo Gernsback, and the start of a serious study of the contribution he made to the development of science fiction. . . . It seemed to me that the time was due to reinvestigate the Gernsback era and dig into the facts surrounding the origins of Amazing Stories. I wanted to find out exactly why Hugo Gernsback had launched the magazine, what he was trying to achieve, and to consider what effects he had-good and bad. . . . Too many writers and editors from the Gernsback days have been unjustly neglected, or unfairly criticized. Now, I hope, Robert A. W. Lowndes and I have provided the grounds for a fair consideration of their efforts, and a true reconstruction of the development of science fiction. It's the closest to time travel you'll ever get. I hope you enjoy the trip."-Mike Ashley, Preface

The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s

The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s
Author: Gary Westfahl
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2019-10-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1476638519

 By examining important aspects of science fiction in the twentieth century, this book explains how the genre evolved to its current state. Close critical attention is given to topics including the art that has accompanied science fiction, the subgenres of space opera and hard science fiction, the rise of SF anthologies, and the burgeoning impact of the marketplace on authors. Included are in-depth studies of key texts that contributed to science fiction's growth, including Philip Francis Nowlan's first Buck Rogers story, the first published stories of A. E. van Vogt, and the early juveniles of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein.

Yesterday's Faces: Strange days

Yesterday's Faces: Strange days
Author: Robert Sampson
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1984
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780879722623

The second volume within this series presents more than fifty series characters within pulp fiction, selected to represent four popular story types from the 1907-1939 pulps--scientific detectives, occult and psychic investigators, jungle men, and adventurers in interplanetary romance. Some characters--Tarzan, John Carter of Mars, Craig Kennedy, Anthony (Buck) Rogers--became internationally known. Others are now almost forgotten, except by collectors and specialists.

Technological Internationalism and World Order

Technological Internationalism and World Order
Author: Waqar H. Zaidi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2021-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 110883678X

Explores the place of science and technology in international relations through early attempts at international governance of aviation and atomic energy.

Utopian and Science Fiction by Women

Utopian and Science Fiction by Women
Author: Jane Donawerth
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780815626190

"This collection speaks to common themes and strategies in women's writing about their different worlds, from Margaret Cavendish's seventeenth-century Blazing World of the North Pole to the "men-less" islands of the French writer Scudery to the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century utopias of Shelley and Gaskell, and science fiction pulps, finishing with the more contemporary feminist fictions of Le Guin, Wittig, Piercy, and Mitchison. It shows that these fictions historically speak to each other and together amount to a literary tradition of women's writing about a better place."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The History of the Science-fiction Magazine

The History of the Science-fiction Magazine
Author: Michael Ashley
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780853238553

This 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.