{"product_id":"science-fiction-from-wells-to-heinlein","title":"Science Fiction from Wells to Heinlein","description":"\u003cp\u003e   As a publisher's category, science fiction began in the American pulp magazine industry in 1926. But its origins lay in the British tradition of the scientific romance, whose mastery by H.G. Wells in his Victorian youth (1895-1901) makes him the \"father of modern SF\" (Jules Verne is a more distant ancestor). Wells's most self-conscious descendant is Robert Heinlein, whose rapid rise to fame during the magazine era made him \"the dean of American SF.\" He so succeeded in winning literary recognition for the genre that it all but vanished into the mainstream, save for a lingering identity in classified paperbacks and in television programming (Michael Crichton's \u003ci\u003eJurassic Park,\u003c\/i\u003e for example, was marketed as general fiction and not science fiction).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   The present work, by a man who taught the subject at the university level for decades, is a critical examination of the literary trajectory of science fiction from the scientific romances of H.G. Wells to the era of Robert Heinlein. Such luminaries as Isaac Asimov (\u003ci\u003eI, Robot\u003c\/i\u003e), Arthur C. Clarke (\u003ci\u003e2001\u003c\/i\u003e), A.E. van Vogt (\u003ci\u003eSlan\u003c\/i\u003e), L. Sprague de Camp (\u003ci\u003eLest Darkness Fall\u003c\/i\u003e), Harry Harrison (\u003ci\u003eStars and Stripes Forever\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy), Kurt Vonnegut (\u003ci\u003eThe Sirens of Titan\u003c\/i\u003e), Brian Aldiss (\u003ci\u003eGreybeard\u003c\/i\u003e), Edgar Rice Burroughs (Barsoom series, Pellucidar series), Ray Bradbury (\u003ci\u003eThe Martian Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e), Fritz Leiber (\u003ci\u003eThe Wanderer\u003c\/i\u003e), C.S. Lewis (\u003ci\u003ePerelandra\u003c\/i\u003e), and Arthur Conan Doyle (\u003ci\u003eThe Lost World\u003c\/i\u003e) are discussed along the way. The roles of various magazines in establishing the genre, an area of the author's special expertise, are fully examined (Hugo Gernsback's \u003ci\u003eScience and Invention, Amazing Stories,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWeird Tales,\u003c\/i\u003e among others).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54233152749912,"sku":"9780786438921","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780786438921_3005d5a4-2eb1-48b9-985c-4caf86ff5278.jpg?v=1764987338","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/science-fiction-from-wells-to-heinlein","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}