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title	:	Science-fiction : The Gernsback Years : a Complete Coverage of the Genre Magazines ... From 1926 Through 1936
author	:	Bleiler, Everett Franklin.; Bleiler, Richard.
publisher	:	Kent State University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0873386043
print isbn13	:	9780873386043
ebook isbn13	:	9780585239828
language	:	English
subject	Science fiction, American--Dictionaries, Gernsback, Hugo,--1884-1967--Contemporaries--Dictionaries.
publication date	:	1998
lcc	:	PS648.S3B57 1998eb
ddc	:	016.813/08762
subject	:	Science fiction, American--Dictionaries, Gernsback, Hugo,--1884-1967--Contemporaries--Dictionaries.

Page iii Science-Fiction The Gernsback Years A complete coverage of the genre magazines Amazing, Astounding, Wonder, and others from 1926 through 1936. by Everett F. Bleiler with the assistance of Richard J. Bleiler THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS Kent, Ohio, and London, England

Page iv 1998 by Everett F. Bleiler All rights reserved Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 98-13374 ISBN 0-87338-604-3 Manufactured in the United States of America 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bleiler, Everett Franklin, 1920 Science-fiction : the Gernsback years / by Everett F. Bleiler, with the assistance of Richard J. Bleiler. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 0-87338-604-3 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Science fiction, AmericanDictionaries. 2. Gernsback, Hugo, 1884-1967ContemporariesDictionaries. I. Bleiler, Richard. II. Title PS648.S3B57 1998 98-13374 016.813'8762dc21 CIP British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data are available.

Page v Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Story Descriptions 1 Anthologizations 523 Authors' Letters 531 Poetry 534 Reprint Sources 536 The Science-Fiction Solar System 539 Magazine Histories and Contents 541 Magazine Illustrators 598 Motif and Theme Index 621 Title Index 699 Author Index 712 Bibliography 727

Page vii Preface In the late 1920s and early 1930s a new literary phenomenon came into being in the United States. This was genre science-fiction, recognized as such and sold as such in between forty and fifty thousand newsstands, drugstores, and tobacconists. Although American in origin, it had in part an international ancestry, what with the earlier science-fictions of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and others. But as it now developed, it was something new. The first issue of the first science-fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, published by Hugo Gernsback, a New York inventor and publisher of technical magazines, appeared on the stands and presumably arrived in the mail for subscriptions around the first week of March 1926. Within a little more than ten years, Amazing Stories and its later rivals numbered 345 issues, to say nothing of twenty issues of Scoops, an aberrant British boys' story paper. This survival and proliferation rate is in itself a cultural phenomenon: that publications which easily lent themselves to ridicule were not only viable in the height of the Great Depression, but actually survived longer than most of the other pulp magazines. Today, the descendants of these 345 magazines are almost omnipresent. Science-fiction floods the television channels, permeates the book best-seller lists, fills carousels in supermarkets, accounts for hundreds of millions of dollars in motion picture production, and has become an accepted part of our modern life. Its strength probably emerges partly from novelty, partly from its limitless expansibility. It is the universe (and sometimes beyond) and the subatomic particle. One may regard science-fiction in its later, superior aspects (as certain critics do) as the literature of the future with perceptual and normative values; or one may see it as the fictional recognition of the hegemony of science and technology in our civilization; or one may consider it simply a form of unusual entertainment. No matter which evaluation one accepts, its roots are important, and the early period described in this volume established many story elements, narrative techniques, ideas, and implementations of fantastic data that are still present. Early genre science-fiction, as considered here, was an expression of popular culture that was unusual in combining fantasized ideas from science and/or technology with narrative techniques from the so-called pulp magazines, where event was the important consideration. The weight of the combination lay sometimes on one side, and sometimes on the other. It made strange claims. It claimed paternity from science, whence its name, and it promised (according to its more enthusiastic promulgators) to influence and possibly to create the future. As one of the curiosities of history, Hugo Gernsback (as is discussed below in the history of

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