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...
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 loo...
Mike Ashley's acclaimed history of science-fiction magazines comes to the 1980s with Science-Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990. This volume charts a significant revolution throughout science fiction, much of which was driven by the alternative press, and by new editors at the leading magazines. The period saw the emergence of the cyberpunk movement, and the drive for, what David Hartwell called, 'The Hard SF Renaissance', which was driven from within Britain. Ashley plots the rise of many new authors in both strands: William Gibson, John Shirley,...
Mike Ashley's acclaimed history of science-fiction magazines comes to the 1980s with Science-Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazine...
"In age he was anywhere from forty-five to fifty; in appearance lean and wiry, and as hard as nails, with a straggling moustache and short beard of a sandy red, and a shock head of hair of the same tint. He acknowledged no front name-called and signed himself Magnum, tout court, like a peer or prince." Magnum was no mere detective, he left crime as such to the police, and would only consult when there was a truly scientific puzzle to unravel. Yet as scientific consultant he solved mysteries, foiled criminals, and protected the public interest. Distinctive in appearance (with his bushy red...
"In age he was anywhere from forty-five to fifty; in appearance lean and wiry, and as hard as nails, with a straggling moustache and short beard of a ...
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...
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 loo...
