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Pseudoscience and Science Fiction Science and Fiction
Andrew May Pseudoscience and Science Fiction Science and Fiction Editorial Board Mark Alpert Philip Ball Gregory Benford Michael Brotherton Victor Callaghan Amnon H Eden Nick Kanas Geoffrey Landis Rudi Rucker Dirk Schulze-Makuch Ru€diger Vaas Ulrich Walter Stephen Webb Science and Fiction – A Springer Series This collection of entertaining and thought-provoking books will appeal equally to science buffs, scientists and science-fiction fans. It was born out of the recognition that scientific discovery and the creation of plausible fictional scenarios are often two sides of the same coin. Each relies on an understanding of the way the world works, coupled with the imaginative ability to invent new or alternative explanations—and even other worlds. Authored by practicing scientists as well as writers of hard science fiction, these books explore and exploit the borderlands between accepted science and its fictional counterpart. Uncovering mutual influences, promoting fruitful interaction, narrating and analyzing fictional scenarios, together they serve as a reaction vessel for inspired new ideas in science, technology, and beyond. Whether fiction, fact, or forever undecidable: the Springer Series “Science and Fiction” intends to go where no one has gone before! Its largely non-technical books take several different approaches. Journey with their authors as they • Indulge in science speculation—describing intriguing, plausible yet unproven ideas; • Exploit science fiction for educational purposes and as a means of promoting critical thinking; • Explore the interplay of science and science fiction—throughout the history of the genre and looking ahead; • Delve into related topics including, but not limited to: science as a creative process, the limits of science, interplay of literature and knowledge; • Tell fictional short stories built around well-defined scientific ideas, with a supplement summarizing the science underlying the plot. -
Science Fiction's Inception in Interwar Pulp Magazines
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works School of Arts & Sciences Theses Hunter College Spring 5-6-2021 Amazing Stories: Science Fiction’s Inception in Interwar Pulp Magazines Zachary Doe CUNY Hunter College How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/760 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] 1 Amazing Stories: Science Fiction’s Inception in Interwar Pulp Magazines By Zachary Doe Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (English), Hunter College, The City University of New York 2021 04/17/2021 Professor Jeff Allred Thesis Sponsor 04/17/2021 Professor Alan Vardy Second Reader 2 The approach to the imaginary locality, or localized daydream, practiced by the genre of [Science Fiction] is a supposedly factual one. Columbus’ (technically or genealogically non-fictional) letter on the Eden he glimpsed beyond the Orinoco mouth, and Swift’s (technically non-factual) voyage to ‘Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg and Japan,’ stand at the opposite ends of a ban between imaginary and factual possibilities. Thus, SF takes off from a fictional (‘Literary’) hypothesis and develops it with extrapolating and totalizing (‘scientific’) rigor– in genre, Columbus and Swift are more alike than different. –Darko Suvin, “On the Poetics of the Science Fiction Genre” Science Fiction is not about the future; it uses the future as a narrative convention to present significant distortions of the present. -
Yandro Biblio Sup. 2 FFM by Wood 63-09
C J # / - Famous Fantastic Mysteries ; ’ Golden Memories by --------------------------------- EDWARD WOOD SEPTEMBER 63 A whole decede has now passed since the death of Famous Fantastic Mysteries. It was one of that Ill-fated brood of magazines spawned by the second resurgence (1938-^1) and of which, not one remains. Edited by Mary Gnaedinger, it was a reprint magazine, with material from the Munsey magazines (1939-^2;19^9-53science fiction and fantasy books (19^3-53) and stories from other fantasy magazines (19^9-53)• Consid ered as an integral part of the parent magazine will be its shorter lived companions, Fantastic Novels and A. Merritt1s Fantasy Magazine. In the summer of 1939 the first FFM appeared, with a red lightning flash logo, the title of the magazine in white letters and the contents page printed on a sick yellow cover. Note that Unknown Worlds was later to copy this cover idea. Not until the March 19^0 issue was there to be a "symbolic" pictorial cover. That first bi-monthly issue, dated September-October 1939, was priced at 15^ and had the rough edges and crude Illustrations common to Argosy Weekly of the time. At least two names on the cover would have made an immediate Impression on any read er of science fiction or fantasy of more than 6 months 1 experience—Mer ritt’s "The Moon Pool"(1) and Cummings’ "The Girl in the Golden Atom" (2). The rest of that first issue deserves to be listed: "Space Sta tion No. 1"(3) by Manly Wade Wellman, "The Whimpus"(M by Todd Robbins, "Karpen the Jew" (5) by Robert Neal Leath, "The Witch-Makers11 (6) by Don ald Wandrei and "Blind Man’s Buff"(7) by J.U. -
The Discovery of the Future: the Ways Science Fiction\ Texasa&M
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 117 726 CS 202 478 v .AUPP-HOR-- Gunn,- James TITLE The Discovery of the Future: The Ways Science Fiction\ INSTITUTION Texas A and .M Univ., College Station. Library. -NT-B-DA-T-E- -75 NOTE 19p.; A Texas A & M. University Library Lecture presented OCtober 18, 19.74 AVAILABLE FROM TexasA&M University, University Library, College Station, Texas 77843 ($2.00; Make check payable to the Friends of the Texas A&M University Library) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.83 HC-$1.67 Plus Postage DESCRIPTORS .*Fantasy; *Futures (of Society) ; Literary Crit cism; *Literary Genres; Literary Perspective; Litetature; *Science Fiction ABSTRACT This booklet discusses the development of science fictidr., tracing its origins to the time of the industrial revolution. Many of the people of this time realized that life was changing and would continue to change, that there wereew forces at work in the world, and that humankind should exercise so64- forethought about the direction in which change was going. Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" is oft -en thought of as the first science fiction novel. Other writers discussed include Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fitz-James O'Brien, Jules Verne, and H.G. Wells. In 1926, Hugo Gernsback founded the first science fiction magazine, called "Amazing Stories." The state of science fiction today is also discussed4 as well as science fiction and the movies, the possibilities of science fiction, the readers pf science fiction, and the different perspectivos of science fiction. (TS) ff *************************************************4******************A#* Documents acquired by ERIC include many informal unpublished * materials not available from other sources. -
SCIENCE FICTION^MONTHLY See Page Five
A COSMIC' PUBLICATION VOLUME 2 NUMBER 15 SUNDAY APRIL 2 1939 ■ •• WHOLE HUMBER 41 SCIENCE FICTION^MONTHLY see page five ASTOUNDING FACTS tion about yourself, please answer, it, for it means that you have been After last week1s report that AST chosen as one of the fans to be in OUNDING1 s circulation hid dropped, cluded in this volume. Bob Forman- we investigated ind found that the ek1s magazine will deal entirely circulation of ASTOUNDING has been with fantastic poetry - A motion going stendly up since Inst year & will be brough before the QUEENS has, in fact, gone off the top of..' SFL to form a soft ball team, to the graph that Campbell drew for challenge the PSFS Panthers,soft- it. The last of ASTOUNDING on.the ball stf fan team of Philadelphia, newstnnds in Newark is being invest to a play-off game, as one of the icated by SRTEET & SMITH. - features of the WORLD SCIENCE FIC Gladney is‘doing both Che coming TION CONVENTION. CHARLES D. HORNIG Moy and June issues of ASTOUNDING. editor of SCIENCE FICTION will do Coils of Time by P. SEhuyler Miller nate a dozen or so scientifilm cops the May cover, while HERMIT 01 stills for auction nt the conven MARS does likewise with the June tion. The big ’’RED LETTER”, day of cover. - Probably to be found the Convention has definitely been in the June issue of ASTOUNDING are set as SUNDAY JULY 2nd,1939, at WHEN THE FUTURE DIES by Nat Schnch- which time the super film, METROP ner - DONE IN-OILS, another Josh OLIS will be shown Mcnab yarn, by Arthur J Burks. -
Fantasy & Science Fiction V023n03
THEODORE STURGEON ISSUE THE MA GA2INE 0 F Fantasi; and Science Fiction WHEN YOU CARE, WHEN YOU LOVE a novelet by THEODORE STURGEON JUDITH MERRIL JAMES BUSH EVELYN E. SMITH JAMES H. SCHMITZ KIT REED fMi .M" ^ Including Venture Science Fiction When You Care, When You Love (.novelet) THEODORE STURGEON 6 Theodore Sturgeon’s Macrocosm JAMES BLISH 42 Theodore Sturgeon JUDITH MERRIL 46 Fantasy and Science Fiction by Theodore Sturgeon (bibliography) SAM moskowitz 56 Martian Mouse ROBIN STURGEON 62 They Also Serve EVELYN E. SMITH 63 Ferdinand Feghoot: LIV GRENDEL BRIARTON 82 Myrrha GARY JENNINGS 83 Science: The Shape of Things ISAAC ASIMOV 89 The New You KIT REED 100 The Devil’s God-daughter SUZANNE MALAVAL no These Are the Arts JAMES H. SCHMITZ 113 Editorial 4 In this issue . , . Coming soon 5 F&SF Marketplace 129 Cover by Ed Emsh The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Volume 23, No. 3, Whole No. 136, Sept. 1902. Published monthly by Mercury Press, Inc., at 40t a copy. Annual subscription $4.50 in U. S. and Possessions, $5.00 in Canada and the Pan American Union; $5.50 in all other countries. Publication office, 10 Ferry Street, Concord, N. H. Editorial and general mail should he sent to 347 East 53rd St., New York 22, N. Y. Second Class postage paid at Concord, N. H. Printed in U. S. A. © 1962 by Mercury Press, Inc. All rights, including translations into other languages, reserved. Submissions must be accom- panied by stamped, self-addressed envelopes; the Publisher assumes no responsibility for return of XinsoHcited manuscripts* Joseph IV. -
Hugo Gernsback's Amazing Stories, Which Hit Newsstands in April 1926
W. Zoglauer, mindofhistory.com Hugo Gernsback’s Amazing Stories, which hit newsstands in April 1926, is largely recognized as the popular primogenitor of science fiction as a new genre in the United States. Though other magazines, including Gernsback’s own publications like Science & Invention, intermittently printed stories in the realm of science fiction, Amazing Stories was the first magazine to focus solely on the new genre frontier. Specially selected stories from literary stalwarts H.G. Wells, Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe anchored the baptismal issue. Hugo Gernsback’s vision for Amazing Stories as ‘A New Sort Of Magazine’ relied heavily on his concept of “Scientifiction.” That is, stories that educated with at least a similitude of scientific fact, but were prescient and bold in anticipating imaginative and technological future possibilities. For Gernsback, the true prophets of modernity's new mechanizing and industrial era were science fiction writers. To underscore this idea, Gersnback pointed to Jules Verne’s innovative use of submarines in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from 1870. “He predicted the present day submarine almost down to the last bolt!” Says Hugo. “Extravagant Fiction Today … Cold Fact Tomorrow,” was more than just a catchy banner motto in each issue’s intro, it was the guiding principle to Amazing Stories’ very existence. Amazing Stories appeared on the scene at just the right time: the horrors of WWI were fading, the American economy of the mid-1920s was prospering, and opportunistic Americans everywhere looked to advances in science and technical entrepreneurialism (like radios, rockets and talkies) as the golden pillars of the age. -
Issue 389, August 2018
President’s Column From the Editors Parsec Picnic July 2018 Parsec Meeting Minutes Young Adult Lecture Series - September 8, 2018 Community - TV/DVD review Fantastic Artist Of The Month It’s A Mad Universe After All Brief Bios It’s a Monster Mash: Rock and Roll and SF Review of The Gone World Parsec Meeting Schedule An Un-aired Un-produced Lackzoom Acidophilus/Parsec Radio Ad A Conversation with Curt Siodmak President’s Column I admit that a great deal of the SF of fin-du-siecle the period seems like a precursor for the SF that is to come. That is an illusion that we should overcome. I feel like it is important to take and study the works as they are presented. It provides a kind of time travel. We can always shoehorn in the crud that has come into being in the intervening years. It is pleasant to spend time in conversation with H.G. or even Jules, though my French is utterly lacking. But dig a little deeper to find the whole vein of scientific romance. George Allan England. M.P. Shiel, William Hope Hodgson, A Conan Doyle, Olaf Stapledon, George Griffith, Frank R. Stockton. The search is on for female writers of the era who, as always were there but are forgotten, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Margaret Cavendish, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf(Orlando), Jane Webb Loudon. See you all in September! I’ve been absent from the last two Parsec meetings for medical reasons. I won’t tell you mine if you don’t tell me yours. -
Sam Moskowitz a Bibliography and Guide
Sam Moskowitz A Bibliography and Guide Compiled by Hal W. Hall Sam Moskowitz A Bibliography and Guide Compiled by Hal W. Hall With the assistance of Alistair Durie Profile by Jon D. Swartz, Ph. D. College Station, TX October 2017 ii Online Edition October 2017 A limited number of contributor's copies were printed and distributed in August 2017. This online edition is the final version, updated with some additional entries, for a total of 1489 items by or about Sam Moskowitz. Copyright © 2017 Halbert W. Hall iii Sam Moskowitz at MidAmericon in 1976. iv Acknowledgements The sketch of Sam Moskowitz on the cover is by Frank R. Paul, and is used with the permission of the Frank R. Paul Estate, William F. Engle, Administrator. The interior photograph of Sam Moskowitz is used with the permission of the photographer, Dave Truesdale. A special "Thank you" for the permission to reproduce the art and photograph in this bibliography. Thanks to Jon D. Swartz, Ph. D. for his profile of Sam Moskowitz. Few bibliographies are created without the help of many hands. In particular, finding or confirming many of the fanzine writings of Moskowitz depended on the gracious assistance of a number of people. The following individuals went above and beyond in providing information: Alistair Durie, for details and scans of over fifty of the most elusive items, and going above and beyond in help and encouragement. Sam McDonald, for a lengthy list of confirmed and possible Moskowitz items, and for copies of rare articles. Christopher M. O'Brien, for over 15 unknown items John Purcell, for connecting me with members of the Corflu set. -
THE SCIENCE FICTION NEWS LETTER, Which Is an Empress Publication, Is Published Weekly, at 86-10 117Th Street, Richmond Hill, N. Y
THE SCIENCE FICTION NEWS LETTER, which is an Empress Publication, is published weekly, at 86-10 117th Street, Richmond Hill, N. Y. Its price is 54 the copy, or six for 25^. By the year: $1.50. Volume II, Number 22. Whole Number 48. October 29th, 1998’ AMAZING'S COMPANION MAGAZINE; WHO IS FARNSWORTH WRIGHT?; SAM SNUBBED; QUADRUMVTRATE QUITS.; AND MORE. BY FREDERIK POHL, ALSO KNOWN AS THE/. Amazing Stories, biggest let-down science fiction has ever seen, plans•shortly to horrify gans still more with a companion magazine entitled, Qf .all things, Fantastic Adventure Stories. It will be a one-shot publication, with a chance of becoming permanent if the first issue is a success. Policy & make-up will be just what the title indicates. • A Mr Erassman, who claims to be ■ the editor of Marvel Science Stories, denies hotly the rumor that Marvel is slated for quick oblivion. ’’Marvel," says Mr Erassman, . "is. on.the upgrade. We have definitely abandoned our sexy.-inclinations and .are planning to 'feature stories with human interest. Needless to say, the .well- known Paul will continue as heretofore to do our covers, with perhaps an. occasional one by Wes-so just to relieve monotony." • • • Certain New York fans who have had occasion to visit Weird Tales’ new offices in Radio City are reported to have inside information that no such person as Farnsworth Wright exists. At least, say they, he boy cotts his office and maintains singularly cold relations with his re ceptionist, who never seems to know anything about M. Wright. • • Lowndes, Michel, Wellheim. -
Trans. of Roger Bozzetto's Article "Intercultural Interplay: SF in France and the US"
DePauw University Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University Modern Languages Faculty publications Modern Languages 1990 Trans. of Roger Bozzetto's article "Intercultural Interplay: SF in France and the US" Arthur B. Evans DePauw University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.depauw.edu/mlang_facpubs Part of the Modern Literature Commons Recommended Citation Arthur B. Evans. "Trans. of Roger Bozzetto's article "Intercultural Interplay: SF in France and the US"" Science Fiction Studies v. 17 (1990) pp. 1-24. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Modern Languages at Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Modern Languages Faculty publications by an authorized administrator of Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SCIENCE FICTION IN FRANCE AND THE US 1 Roger Bozzetto Intercultural Interplay: Science Fiction in France and the United States (As Viewed from the French Shore)* Edited and translated by Arthur B. Evans In contrast to the Marvellous or the Fantastic, SF is a strictly Western creation. Moreover, it is a recent genre—even if the exact date of its emergence onto the literary scene is still subject to debate.1 SF has also been known by many different generic labels prior to its current appellation, but they all connoted a certain image of scientific progress.2 Despite its relative newness, SF has succeeded in generating an important amount of critical discourse: in the US, for instance, even bibliographies of bibliographies on the subject have been produced.3 This intense critical activity, however, continues to remain fragmentary in nature: there are many lacunae in its findings and a lack of specific models against which to accurately define its perspectives.4 Thematic issues, technological conjecture, and sociological implications have all drawn (albeit in rather chaotic fashion) their fair share of critical attention. -
Produced by Robert Jennings, 29 Whiting Rd., Oxford, MA 01540-2035, Email [email protected]
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FADEAWAY #46 is a fanzine devoted to science fiction and related fields of interest, and is produced by Robert Jennings, 29 Whiting Rd., Oxford, MA 01540-2035, email [email protected]. Copies are available for a letter of comment, or a print fanzine in trade, or by subscription at a cost of $20.00 for six issues. Letters of comment are much preferred. Any person who has not previously received a copy of this fanzine may receive a sample copy of the current issue for free by sending me your name and address. Publication is bi-monthly. This is the August-September 2015 issue __________________________________________________________________________________________ THE SHADOW OF ADDICTION For over a year now my most consistent reading has been the series of trade paperback books Sanctum Books is producing that reprint the original Shadow pulp magazine stories, two novels per volume. These trade paperbacks come out once a month and approximate the publishing schedule of the original Shadow magazine, which at the height of its popularity in the 1930s was appearing twice a month. The history of the Shadow character is relatively well known, altho exact details of his earliest origins are elusive and contentious. In the summer of 1930 Street & Smith, publishers of many kinds of fiction magazines, decided to take advantage of a seasonal drop in radio rates to sponsor an hour-long program to boost the sales of their premier mystery magazine, Detective Story Magazine. According to most sources the account was given to the Ruthrauff & Ryan advertising agency to work up a program adapting actual stories from the magazine.