TECH
IMAGINARIUM
How Science Fiction Made the Modern World
Since its birth a century ago, this fascinating genre has been turning science fact into fictions that have captured the imagination of the world. John Helmer and Ezri Carlebach explore how these stories have, in turn, inspired developments in technology that shape all our lives today.
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Every genre has a shadow canon — the writers who don’t make the syllabus, don’t sell out on Amazon, and rarely get the Netflix series. In science fiction, that shadow canon is where some of the most intellectually adventurous, politically serious and formally daring...
A hundred years ago this spring, a magazine called Amazing Stories hit the newsstands and — almost by accident — gave a name and a shape to the genre we now call science fiction. Its publisher, Hugo Gernsback, was an immigrant electrical engineer, visionary...