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Golden Age Of Science Fiction

Entertainment / Literature / Golden Age Of Science Fiction: The period between 1930 and about 1955 in which a growing number of science fiction short stories appeared in pulp fiction publications like the following: Amazing Stories (first issued 1926 under the editorial control of Hugo Gernsback and the artistic control of Frank Paul), Weird Tales (first issued 1923 under J.C. Henneberger), Fantastic Adventures (first published 1952 under Ziff Davis), Science Wonder Stories (first published under Hugo Gernsback in 1930), Thrilling Wonder Stories (first published 1936 under Ned Pines) The golden age is not necessarily designated thus because of the quality of the material, but rather in the sense of this being a 'first age' in which science fiction was widely published and editors/authors/readers recognized it as a distinct genre. These early magazines often suffered from financial woes, frequently traded hands in terms of ownership, and often had circulations of less than 30,000 issues. By the 1950s however, these short stories had created a generation of young science fiction readers who turned to adult writers, paving the way for the science fiction novel. Many science fiction writers like A. E. Vogt, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula leguin, Arthur C. Clarke, L. Sprague de Camp, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, and Isaac Asimov wrote their first major works for these early publications.
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