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Science fiction short stories
Dec. 9th, 2013 04:10 pmAs threatened/promised, a brief review of the science fiction short stories I have read so far in my chronological tip-toe through the genre. My descriptions/reviews below are somewhat spoilery in terms of premise and tone, although I don't out and out describe how the stories end.
The first two stories have been dubbed 'proto science fiction' in that they were written well before there was any such genre as science fiction, and were labeled in hindsight as "science fiction-like." H. G. Wells is the first of this batch to be truly a "science fiction" writer, although he would not have used that term, since it was not invented until the mid-twentieth century.
( Edgar Allen Poe )
( Nathaniel Hawthorne )
( H.G. Wells )
( Edmond Hamilton )
( Robert Heinlein )
The first two stories have been dubbed 'proto science fiction' in that they were written well before there was any such genre as science fiction, and were labeled in hindsight as "science fiction-like." H. G. Wells is the first of this batch to be truly a "science fiction" writer, although he would not have used that term, since it was not invented until the mid-twentieth century.
( Edgar Allen Poe )
( Nathaniel Hawthorne )
( H.G. Wells )
( Edmond Hamilton )
( Robert Heinlein )
