Pioneers of wonder

By Eric Leif Davin

Subjects: Science fiction, history and criticism, Science fiction, Interviews, American Authors, History and criticism, Authorship, Theory, American Science fiction, Science fiction, authorship, Authors, american

Description: 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".