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In 1926 the american magazine Amazing Stories first number was published.
That marks the start for science fiction, earlier magazines had published SF but now there appeared magazines that were devoted to the subject alone.
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During the period 1926-1950 Science Fiction was published mostly in american and brittish magazines. The naive covers and often poor paperquality in combination with sometimes really bad stories, made SF gain lower status than more "serious" litterature.
It was at the end of the 30's when the editor John W. Campbell Jr.demanded better quality on the stories which were to be published in "Astounding Science Fiction" that Science Fiction begun to gain a better reputation.
The words "Science Fiction" appeared in the beginning of the 30s.
The first time they appearead was in Hugo Gernsback's magazine "Science Wonder
Stories", one of many magazines Gernsback edited after
"Amazing Stories" had disappeared.
The meaning the words "Science Fiction" got was
"fictional stories with scientific theories that explains
known phenomenon or predicts new phenomenon."
Books at Amazon.co.uk (Europe):
Science-Fiction : The Gernsback Years : A Complete Coverage of the Genre Magazines Amazing, Astounding, Wonder, and Others from 1926 Through 1936
Books at Amazon.com (USA):
Science-Fiction : The Gernsback Years : A Complete Coverage of the Genre Magazines Amazing, Astounding, Wonder, and Others from 1926 Through 1936
http://hem.passagen.se/gumby/
Calle Åsman [emsworth [at] gmx [dot] net]
