A pictorial history of science fiction
David A. Kyle (Author)
"This book has been divided arbitrarily into chapters in order to better understand the development of sf...There are three periods, represented by four prominent and important men. In the nineteenth century there was the Victorian Age, dominated towards its close by two figures...frequently considered the founders of the genre : H.G. Wells and Jules Verne. In the twentieth century, spanning almost the entire first half, was the visionary Hugo Gernsback, publisher-editor-writer who created the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, and earned the sobriquet of "father of science fiction." And then, before the Second World War, came another editor-writer, John W. Campbell, Jr., who through his guiding genius in Astounding Stories, later retitled Analog, could be said with equal solemnity to be "the father of modern science fiction"...In between these four men, and contemporary with them, were a host of others, some as important as those we have mentioned but either through fate or publicity not nearly as well known"--from Introduction, page 11
Print Book, English, 1976
Hamlyn, London, 1976