ENGL 2P11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Amazing Stories, Murray Leinster, Olwen
7 Sep 2018
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Phoenix award winner (children"s literature association gives award to book that did not receive awards when it was first published but 20 years later and they reevaluate them) Importance of a scientific or rational mode of thought. A genre begins (shelly, poe, verne, wells) Sf magazines read by a variety for ages but particularly through the beginning to mid of the 20th ce there was a stereotype they were directed to teenage boys. Soft less concerned with technology detail but more concerned with social details (more women in this subcategory) Changes relationship between past present and future. Emerged at the same time as historical fiction. Many women took over pseudonyms in order to produce science fiction in a mans world. Definitions on terms doc (extrapolation, speculation, estrangement, allusion) Isis associated with the protection of children and restoring her brother to life. A science fiction story depicting initial meeting or communication with aliens or extraterrestrials.
