Long before Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Gene Roddenberry, and
Chris Carter, the names of David Lasser, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Hugo
Gernsback, and Sam Moskowitz were well known by the first fans of a
new kind of fiction. These pioneers were among the visionary
individuals who launched the science fiction genre, which today
enjoys such wide appeal.
Through exclusive interviews, Eric Leif Davin takes readers back
to the late 1920s, when Gernsback, "the father of science fiction,"
founded the world's first science fiction magazine, Amazing
Stories. Lasser, one of Gernsback's editors, recalls his own
amazing book The Conquest of Space-the first work in English to
seriously probe the possibility of space flight. Other highlights
include a discussion with the widow of Stanley G. Weinbaum ("A
Martian Odyssey"), the first author to write about an alien in
sympathetic terms; talks with the giants of early sci-fi Frank K.
Kelly and Raymond Z. Gallun; Wolf Man creator and science fiction
script writer Curt Siodmak; pioneer book publisher and writer Lloyd
Arthur Eshbach; plus commentary on popular sci-fi magazines.
The lives, experiences, memories, and insights provided in
Pioneers of Wonder are a treasure for all fans of this dynamic
literary phenomenon.
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