The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines Series by Mike Ashley

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  • Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 (The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines #1)
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    Time Machines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 (The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines #1)

    Mike Ashley

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    This is the first of three volumes that chart the history of the science fiction magazine from the earliest days to the present. This first volume looks at the exuberant years of the pulp magazines. It traces the growth and development of the science fiction magazines from when Hugo Gernsback launched the very first, Amazing Stories, in 1926 through to the birth of the atomic age and the death of the pulps in the early 1950s... more

  • Transformations (The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines #2)
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    Transformations (The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines #2)

    Mike Ashley

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    When we think of science fiction, we think primarily of movies and television shows, but this assumption belies the fact that the genre's initial rise to prominence came in pulp magazines. With lurid covers and titles like Galaxy, If, and Thrilling Wonder Stories, the science fiction pulp magazines created the visual and thematic vocabulary that continues to animate today's science fiction blockbusters... more

  • Gateways to Forever (The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines #3)
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    Gateways to Forever (The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines #3)

    Mike Ashley

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    · 1 ratings · published 2007

    In the 1970s science fiction exploded into the popular consciousness, appearing everywhere along the cultural spectrum—from David Bowie’s alien stage persona to the massively successful global juggernaut that was Star Wars... more

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