THE GERNSBACK DAYS: A Study of the Evolution of Modern Science Fiction from 1911 to 1936
Mike Ashley, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Michael Ashley, . . Wildside, $49.95 (500pp) ISBN 978-0-8095-1055-9
SF fans have long had a love-hate relationship with Hugo Gernsback (1884–1967), the immigrant from Luxembourg who founded the first true science fiction magazine in 1926 as a means of popularizing interest in science and for whom the Hugo Award is named. Many critics dismiss Gernsback while extolling editor John W. Campbell as the founder of modern SF. British scholar Ashley (
Reviewed on: 05/31/2004
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 500 pages - 978-0-8095-1054-2
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