A lot of things were supposed to kill newspapers in the 20th century. There was radio, then TV, then the internet.…
Anytime the government tries to ban something there are usually loud warnings about slippery slopes and guesses as to…
When we look at visions of the future from the 20th century we often imagine the lone inventor or solitary artist…
Yesterday, we looked at Wernher von Braun's 1954 vision for a manned mission to Mars. But long before people imagined…
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Last week I had two friends from the Bay Area over to my apartment in Los Angeles. They recently moved to San Francisco…
The city of Burbank, California was incorporated in 1911 with a population of just 500. Today the population is just…
After the first successful powered flight by the Wright Brothers in 1903, it seemed like only a matter of time before…
These days, SF thrillers in which natural disasters end human life as we know it are mainstream fare. But long before…
Paving the way for Vulcans, Slan, Espers, Professor X and Babylon 5's Lyta Alexander, SF writers of the Pre-Golden Age…
The March 7, 1912 Spirit Lake Beacon (Spirit Lake, IA) published a piece by V.A. Arnold titled, "The Public School of…
Long before Alan Moore asked "Who will watch the Watchmen?" science fiction writers of the Pre-Golden Age (1904-33)…
During science fiction's Pre-Golden Age (1904-33), writers dreamed up mechanical and quasi-organic humanoids so…
Click to viewSome of the most gorgeous, evocative, and strange science fiction art you've ever seen comes from the…
With Wall-E director Andrew Stanton working on a film based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1917 novel A Princess of Mars,…
Earlier this year, I formulated an eccentric but strict periodization scheme, in which the Nineteen-Oughts (not to be…
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