A case for sf today, from The Atlantic.
Lots of pix of midcentury US sf fans.
An ethos fostered though not quite created by John W. Campbell.
A cover from Astounding (1941) that illustrated Heinlein's "Universe."
Another Campbell-era Astounding cover, from 1940.
A mid-1960s paperback cover for Stranger.
Midcentury sf spaceship designs.
How artificial gravity works (simplest version).
An object of non-falsifiable (hermeneutic) interpretation.
An object on which hypotheses can be tested.
The original for "Nevertheless, it still moves!"
Generation ship plots in television.
Rudyard Kipling, beloved of Heinlein and poet of engineers.
Kipling also wrote science fiction.
Pulp-era robots were scary.
The first sf robots, from Capek's R.U.R. Imagining friendly, even very friendly robots.
Sf writers who wrote only for fans, who in turn often read only sf. Sigh.
In popular film and television SF, viewers are encouraged to identify themselves with revolutionaries, not with the people in charge.
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