Offering a sustained argument about the idea of science fiction,
this volume aims to overturn many received opinions and sacred
cows. The author contends that Hugo Gernsback, for decades a
derided figure, was the true creator of the genre, and examines the
way in which the Gernsback tradition was adopted and modified by
later magazine editors and early critics. This involves a
re-evaluation of the importance of John W. Campbell to the history
of science fiction, as well as a critique of Robert Heinlein's
Beyond the Horizon, one of the seminal texts of Amerian science
fiction. In conclusion, Westfahl uses the theories of Gernsback and
Campbell to develop a descriptive definition of science fiction,
and explores the ramifications of that definition.
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