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more about #pregoldenage Grey_Area: Top-notch work as always Mr. Glenn. I may read one of these venerable tomes on a dark and stormy night. more » corpore-metal: Ah yes, the Golden Age! Good times. Star Wars aside, I prefer my science fiction without nonsense like psychic powers. To me that's just magic and bel... more » Kueperpunk: Wow, how cool to see a review of this anthology on io.9. Glad you liked my story "project 38". For those who are interested in it: i recorded an audio... more » Kurt Roithinger: i spent much of the 80s living in austria (and went to school there) and i have to say, SF in those days was just not a common sight. i read voracious... more » Dr_Henry_Armitage: "One of his main themes was technologically and mentally advanced races with a corresponding superior moral sense, quite unlike the übermensch propos... more » IgorKremlin: Being from Austria myself I'm really excited about this book and immediately started to search for the german version. Rottensteiner published many v... more » Grey_Area: While preparing this review I was struck by how much great Science Fiction never gets translated into English. Being a typical American, I only have t... more » J. Gov: Never heard of Fechner? Gasp! He's one of my scientific patron saints. Wikipedia him, at least; he was a cool guy. He contributed greatly to the study... more » Pope John Peeps II: oh Nietzsche, always good for a laugh! That's good, light, picnic reading that is. more » Plague: Need more stuff like this. more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Capek's novel is not surrealist, technically. It's just regular realist. more » Grey_Area: I think The Steam Man of the Prairies and similar devices in the pulp "Edisonade" type of stories aren't quite robots. They were more like the mecha, ... more » Smeagol92055: I could have sworn I saw an adaptation of Čapek's novel, by an Asian director a few years back. Don't remember the name of the short film for the lif... more » crashedpc - Haifisch: Tiktok!!!! He was my most favoritest character in all of the Oz books, and I even loved him in the movie. Return to Oz was awesome back when my 10 yea... more » -
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The Mad Mentalists of Pre-Golden-Age SF
Paving the way for Vulcans, Slan, Espers, Professor X and Babylon 5's Lyta Alexander, SF writers of the Pre-Golden Age (1904-33) dared to imagine how normal people might react if telepaths were discovered among us.
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German SF Through Two World Wars And The Berlin Wall
How did Germany's dreams (and nightmares) of the future shift over a century or so, including two world wars and the Berlin Wall? A new anthology takes us inside the history of German science fiction.
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The Super-est Supermen of Pre-Golden Age SF
Long before Alan Moore asked "Who will watch the Watchmen?" science fiction writers of the Pre-Golden Age (1904-33) worried whether supermen would rescue us ordinary mortals - or try to dominate us.
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The Coolest Robots of Pre-Golden Age SF
During science fiction's Pre-Golden Age (1904-33), writers dreamed up mechanical and quasi-organic humanoids so compelling that they continue to haunt today's scifi, forcing us to ask what it means to be human.
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The Most Amazing Book Covers from Pre-Golden Age SF
Some of the most gorgeous, evocative, and strange science fiction art you've ever seen comes from the covers of novels written between 1904-33, in SF's "pre-Golden Age."
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The 10 Best Apocalypse Novels of Pre-Golden Age SF (1904-33)
With Wall-E director Andrew Stanton working on a film based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1917 novel A Princess of Mars, you need a crash course in books from this seminal era in science fiction.
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