Pioneers of Wonder - Davin, Eric Leif
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David Lasser, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Hugo Gernsback, and Sam Moskowitz are the founders of science fiction, the amazing genre that enjoys such wide appeal today. Through exclusive interviews with these intriguing personalities, Eric Leif Davin takes readers back to the late 1920s when Gernsback, "the father of science fiction, " founded the world's second science fiction magazine, Science Wonder Stories. Lasser recalls his time at the magazine and his own amazing story The Conquest of Space the first book to seriously probe the possibility of space flight. Other highlights include a discussion…mehr

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David Lasser, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Hugo Gernsback, and Sam Moskowitz are the founders of science fiction, the amazing genre that enjoys such wide appeal today. Through exclusive interviews with these intriguing personalities, Eric Leif Davin takes readers back to the late 1920s when Gernsback, "the father of science fiction, " founded the world's second science fiction magazine, Science Wonder Stories. Lasser recalls his time at the magazine and his own amazing story The Conquest of Space the first book to seriously probe the possibility of space flight. Other highlights include a discussion with Weinbaum (A Martian Odyssey), the first author to treat an alien sympathetically, and talks with the giants of the early science fiction genre, Frank K. Kelly and Raymond Z. Gallun.
"Through detailed research and exclusive interviews, Eric Leif Davin takes readers back to the 1920s and 1930s, when Hugo Gernsback, the "father of science fiction, " founded the world's first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories. Davin recaptures the "sense of wonder" that the early science fiction stories inspired in the minds of its first avid fans."--BOOK JACKET.
Autorenporträt
Eric Leif Davin is professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, winner of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation's Bryant Spann Memorial Prize in Literature for his historical writing, and author of Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965.