British Science Fiction

As a publishers category, science fiction began in the American pulp magazine industry in 1926. But its origins lay in the British tradition of the scientific romance, whose mastery by H.G. Wells in his Victorian youth (1895-1901) makes him the "father of modern SF" (Jules Verne is a more distant ancestor). Wellss most self-conscious descendant is Robert Heinlein, whose rapid rise to fame during the magazine era made him "the dean of American SF." He so succeeded in winning literary recognition for the genre that it all but vanished into the mainstream, save for a lingering identity in classified paperbacks and in television programming (Michael Crichtons Jurassic Park, for example, was marketed as general fiction and not science fiction). The present work, by a man who taught the subject at the university level for decades, is a critical examination of the literary trajectory of science fiction from the scientific romances of H.G. Wells to the era of Robert Heinlein. Such luminaries as Isaac Asimov (I, Robot), Arthur C. Clarke (2001), A.E. van Vogt (Slan), L. Sprague de Camp (Lest Darkness Fall), Harry Harrison (Stars and Stripes Forever trilogy), Kurt Vonnegut (The Sirens of Titan), Brian Aldiss (Greybeard), Edgar Rice Burroughs (Barsoom series, Pellucidar series), Ray Bradbury (The Martian Chronicles), Fritz Leiber (The Wanderer), C.S. Lewis (Perelandra), and Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World) are discussed along the way. The roles of various magazines in establishing the genre, an area of the authors special expertise, are fully examined (Hugo Gernsbacks Science and Invention, Amazing Stories, and Weird Tales, among others).

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British Science Fiction Association - The British Science Fiction Society was founded in 1958 by a group of authors, publishers, booksellers and fans in order to encourage science fiction in every form. It is an open membership organisation costing £21 per year for UK residents and £14 for the unwaged.

British Fantasy Society - The British Fantasy Society (BFS) began in 1971 as the British Weird Fantasy Society, an off-shoot of the British Science Fiction Association. The society is dedicated to promoting the best in the Fantasy and Horror genres.

Science Fantasy (magazine) - Science Fantasy was a British science fiction and fantasy magazine of the 1950s and 1960s.

Golden Age of Science Fiction - The Golden Age of Science Fiction, often recognized as a period from the early 1940s through the 1950s, was an era during which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic science fiction stories were published. The saying "The golden age of science fiction is twelve", from the science fiction fan Peter Graham [Hartwell 1996], means that many readers use "golden age" to mean the time when they first developed a passion for science fiction, often in adolescence.

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History of Science Fiction - History of Science Fiction History of science fiction films - The history of science fiction films parallels that of the movie-making industry as a whole, although it took several decades before the genre was taken seriously. Since the 1960s, major science fiction films have succeeded in pulling in large audience shares, and films in this genre have become a regular staple of the film industry. History of science fiction - The literary genre of science fiction is diverse and since there is ...

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