ENG237H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Roger Luckhurst, Hugo Gernsback, Analog Science Fiction And Fact
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The common origin story is that hugo gernsback used the term scientific fiction in 1923, proposed the contraction scientifiction in 1924, which appeared extensively in his editorials of. Amazing stories from 1926, but then coined science fiction in his magazine science wonder. When the rival magazine astounding stories changed its name to astounding. Science-fiction in 1938, the subculture more or less consolidated around the term. [ ] but to a protestant imagination or to a sceptical humanist catholic imagination, such as. Descartes" or voltaire"s) the cosmos expands before the probing inquiries of empirical science through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the imaginative-speculative exploration of that universe expands with it. This is the science-fiction imagination, and it becomes increasingly a function of western protestant culture. This present history depends, then, upon a historicized definition of sf as that form of fantastic romance from which the magic has been replaced by the materialist discourses of science.
