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BL
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635917
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| Main Entry
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Cheng, John
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| Title & Author
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Astounding wonder : : imagining science and science fiction in interwar America /\ John Cheng
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| Page. NO
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392 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780812243833
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: 0812243838
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-374) and index
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| Contents
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"Magazines for morons": pulp magazines and the emergence of science fiction -- Conversations from the "backyard": reading and imaging community -- Discovering the freedom of facts: fact, fiction, and authority of science -- Involving adventure, reassuring romance: engendering science fiction's domestic tranquility -- Human martians and Asian aliens: the racial nature of wondrous worlds -- The progress of time: Einstein, history, and the dimensions of time travel -- "Fandom is just a goddam hobby": the industry of fans and professionals -- "We want to play with spaceships": popular rocket science in action
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| Abstract
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This volume explores science fiction's emergence in the era's "pulps," colorful magazines that shouted from the newsstands, attracting an extraordinarily loyal and active audience -- Publisher description
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Science fiction, American-- History and criticism
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Science fiction, Periodicals-- History
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Literature and science-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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Science in popular culture-- United States
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.0876209
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| LC Classification
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PS374.S35C484 2012
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