
S4E96 – AH – “After Hours” with Rod Bennett
Pints with Jack: The C.S. Lewis Podcast
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The Science Fiction of Hugo Gernersback
In 19 25, hugo gernsback launched a magazine dealing with the worlds of to morrow and interplanetary travel. To create a new name for the magazine, he contracted the term scientific ion into scientic fiction,. But it's interesting that lewis uses it. Science fiction started getting better in the late 19 thirties. Asmov says this about that era, cosmic scale. Hard s f began in the 19 thirtied is anchored in last and first man by olaf stapleton who was direct acknowledged influence on king of hard s, f arthur c Clark. Interestingly, lewis's idea for the floating islands of paralandra comes
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