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The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, Sherryl Vint

Fiction, 1895–1926

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The drama The secrets. its unfolds gradually only that riddle a as 802701 New typical that those social 19) as ue tm tae t pooe a promote to travel time uses also (1890), Nowhere from News ideology protagonist’s Wells’s Edward and learn Englander’s rule of future improvement. protagonist. of engineer’s machine modernity. Bellamy than Twain’s earlier about key Bellamy’s of Eloi and the in the progress innovation Eloi and brief, William ts famous and influential polemical counterpart, polemical influential and famous Its the time-travel visit and and imaginary JOHN breadth rationality ne of the most widely read and hotly discussed hotly and read widely most the of One Instead For future, bleak (1888), narrates (1888), 2000–1887 Backward: Looking Mark streamlined Morris, to also reverses contemporary reverses also Machine Time The llen, Wells does not leave the ethnocentric the leave not Wellsdoes Allen, Morlocks, and then gives this degeneration a intact. Allen (who, like Wells, was an advocate and R Morlocks the ironic outcome of the triumph 24 Henry example, the loi and the subterranean the and Eloi IEDE upon of glimpse Twain’s of then, stories. future sixth-century the Wells’s and the R While Hudson’s the In clarity plot Wells’s Grant guided know-how anti-clerical of where And time-travel , for example, for TimeMachine, The subject the development Allen’s of just (1887). Age Crystal A Allen’s entropic Time he tours Wells’s Arthurian rp rpeetd the represented Europe matter, as observes future against gad o td its study to England this plot satire, Traveler by time-travel exposition heat-death which plot’s would is however, orlocks who Morlocks is England. 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Finally, this dialectical reversal and finally utter subjection to, them as the “scientific fantastic ht e o cl ery f a pras ohn mr ta te os aggre- loose the than more nothing perhaps was sf early call now we What The Time Machine Time The technological insects. reading realistic in run, “advanced” And Wells does so with a seamless weaving together of extravagant conjecture “The symbiosis. societies, the But “sf” and detail romance” Country upper what incredible, around rationality and Thus but societies, – M.P characterizes class’s as The First Men in the Moon; the in Men First The set and Moreau Doctor of Island The “The of because one (Stableford . Shiel, . 1900. 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The most serious attempt to come to terms with the with terms to come differences to attempt serious most The fans. of group vocal very and committed, self-identified, a sometimes by attended and and genre, strongly the with writers associated of exclusively group visible highly a featuring Campbell), W. magazines of the late 1930s through the 1950s, spearheaded by a powerful editor (John the in genre the of elaboration self-conscious highly the namely sf, about literary genre than the one that has so often been the point of departure for discussions important the contributions to sf by Joseph Conrad (The Inheritors (1901)) and of genres, including the realist novel, makes him anything but a special case, as witness Poe, not Burroughs, as models; and the fact that Wells enjoyed success across a number of issue first the in writer.But sf early other any of that does it as closely as least at Christie writer,mass-market prototypical Zane of that resembles corpus whose a certainly is formula, adventure successful a of reiteration tireless his with Burroughs, in and more prestigious literary forms, such as the strong element of satire always present older with sf of affiliation the Sometimes 1938. in death his of time the at country his in fiction realist of writer prominent most the also was but (1920), Robots) Universal most C Karel writer Czech great the or utopias; futuristic detailed elaborately as the formulas of Burroughs or the marketing strategy of strategy marketing the or Burroughs of formulas the as such hybrid products are arguably just as persistent and definitive a feature of the genre but genre, the of rest the from sf of strains these isolate to tended has 1924)), English utting the divided field of early sf alongside the quasi-programmatic unities of unities thequasi-programmatic sfalongside early of field divided the Putting ne could well argue, in fact, that the loose boundaries, imprecise definition, and definition, imprecise boundaries, loose the that fact, in argue, well could One the US. “Golden often (1905) remains dystopia colonialism, The audiences early remembered between Gernsback. But the opposition Stableford details could well be considered 10) obn sahn str aant eiiu orthodoxy, religious against satire scathing combine (1903) Limanora Age” may British Stableford and (for dystopia, , would call upon Wellsupon call would Stories, Amazing Verneand and have eventually helps example, of Wells’s “scientific and 1895–1926 in provided (1985), remind bureaucracy “The sf generic history displaced Yevgeny romance,” Machine which us important abriel Tarde, whose splendid satire splendid Tarde,whose Gabriel comprise JOHN for that environment with Zamyatin’s inventing iest of University by describes R sf 30 Stops” the American IEDE itself one a inspiration tradition far R of (1908)). is a the and We more field not the “sf,” word (written 1920, translated into translated 1920, (written w eln, whose Zealand, New that merely of period’s of typical Gernsback. for Outside the Wells, production “robot” of Forster’s tradition sf’s a state most mass-market flourished so-called of in E.M Forster (the rey or Grey England, RUR (Rossum’sRUR of story; ambitious strongly ˇ of apek, who is who apek, Underground Edgar affairs Gernsback, Burroughs, American from “Golden or Agatha Riallora genre. 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