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Explorers of the Infinite: Shapers of Science Fiction
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A searching look at the curious and lively minds--the famous and the forgotten--who shaped the development of science fiction from its earliest beginnings in the 17th century to its modern flowering in the 1930s.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction (Explorers of the Infinite) - essay
- Cyrano DeBergerac - Swordsman of Space - [Studies in Science Fiction] - (1959) - essay
- The Sons of Frankenstein - (1958) - essay
- The Prophetic Edgar Allan Poe - [Studies in Science Fiction] - (1958) - essay
- The Fabulous Fantast, Fitz-James O'Brien - [Studies in Science Fiction] - (1958) - essay (variant of The Fabulous Fantast)
- Around the Worlds With Jules Verne - [Studies in Science Fiction] - (1958) - essay
- The Real Earth Satellite Story - (1957) - essay
- Ghosts of Prophecies Past, or, Frank Reade, Jr. and "Forgotten Chapters in American History" - essay
- The Wonders of H. G. Wells - [Studies in Science Fiction] - (1958) - essay
- The World, the Devil, and M. P. Shiel - essay
- Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Science Fiction - [Studies in Science Fiction] - (1959) - essay
- To Barsoom and Back with Edgar Rice Burroughs - essay
- The Marvelous A. Merritt - [Studies in Science Fiction] - (1959) - essay (variant of The Marvelous A. Merritt - Lord of Fantasy)
- Karel Capek: The Man Who Invented Robots - [Studies in Science Fiction] - essay (variant of Karel Capek: The Man Who Invented Robots 1960)
- Hugo Gernsback: "Father of Science Fiction" - essay
- The Lore of H. P. Lovecraft - essay
- Olaf Stapledon: Cosmic Philosopher - [Studies in Science Fiction] - (1960) - essay
- Space Opus: Philip Wylie - essay
- Dawn of Fame: The Career of Stanley G. Weinbaum - [Studies in Science Fiction] - (1959) - essay
- How Science Fiction Got Its Name - (1956) - essay
- The Future in Present Tense - essay
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