A massive, but non-academic, list of Pohl's works, and a recent interview.
The first three chapters of Pohl's memoir, The Way the Future Was.
Gateway, the spinoff video game.
Reacting against the Campbell ethos.
A lot of Galaxy magazine.
Everything we know about the Heechee.
We may have a sense of wonder, but that's not why people really take risks.
An old-time old-time prospector.
What you don't see in Gateway.
The role of chance in American life. The really big role of chance in American life.
One analogy for the Gateway asteroid.
Another analogy for the Gateway asteroid.
Another analogy for the Gateway asteroid.
Pohl can't believe in him. Does Pohl believe him instead?
A real psychoanalyst from the late 1960s.
Computer simulation of light and motion around a black hole. (How to weigh a black hole.)
Another (groan) plot-relevant black hole.
A sequel. Another sequel. And another.
Saturday, September 21, 2019
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Saturday, September 14, 2019
Gilman
The first issue of Gilman's Forerunner (1909).
What seems to be the first book (rather than serial) edition of Herland.
Gilman herself.
Friedrich Froebel, sometimes credited with an important invention.
Images from the Smithsonian's Making of Homemakers collection
There is an essential womanhood but it's not this. Maybe it's this?
There is evolution but it's not this; maybe it's this.
Not quite what this guy thought.
Another familiar contrast between men's tastes and women's.
One analogy for Herland.
Another analogy. Who's the snake?
A future that came true.
A hard problem for Gilman's Utopian program to solve.
Naming a genre.
Using another genre.
Explicitly feminist sf: much later examples.
Looking for secondary sources? You can reach the Modern Language Association (MLA) bibliography through the main Harvard library site.
Hawthorne: a famous garden.
Hawthorne: Genesis 3, the Fall.
Hawthorne: the Roman god Vertumnus, a dude made in part of fruit.
Artificial selection gave us maize, or American corn.
The dark purple flower of doom.
Nightshade's purple flowers and dark fruit.
An apparently reliable academically sponsored reading edition of "Rappaccini's Daughter."
What seems to be the first book (rather than serial) edition of Herland.
Gilman herself.
Friedrich Froebel, sometimes credited with an important invention.
Images from the Smithsonian's Making of Homemakers collection
There is an essential womanhood but it's not this. Maybe it's this?
There is evolution but it's not this; maybe it's this.
Not quite what this guy thought.
Another familiar contrast between men's tastes and women's.
One analogy for Herland.
Another analogy. Who's the snake?
A future that came true.
A hard problem for Gilman's Utopian program to solve.
Naming a genre.
Using another genre.
Explicitly feminist sf: much later examples.
Looking for secondary sources? You can reach the Modern Language Association (MLA) bibliography through the main Harvard library site.
Hawthorne: a famous garden.
Hawthorne: Genesis 3, the Fall.
Hawthorne: the Roman god Vertumnus, a dude made in part of fruit.
Artificial selection gave us maize, or American corn.
The dark purple flower of doom.
Nightshade's purple flowers and dark fruit.
An apparently reliable academically sponsored reading edition of "Rappaccini's Daughter."
Monday, September 9, 2019
Connecticut Yankee
Another point of origin for a kind of sf.
From the University of Virginia, a useful guide to contexts for Twain's Yankee.
An 1889 edition of Connecticut Yankee.
About the production of Yankee and the illustrations by Dan Beard; a few of Twain's favorites.
A symbol for Connecticut.
The marvelous lightning rod.
Mark Twain's house in Hartford (built 1873-74); a virtual tour.
Illustrating Malory's Morte d'Arthur with 1890s artist Aubrey Beardsley.
P. T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting (1886).
A full suit of armor. Heavy, isn't it?
Contemporary recreational armor.
The advent of outdoor electric lights.
An early telephone (1876).
Knights on pennyfarthing bicycles.
From the Mark Twain Museum in Missouri, a Twain timeline and brief publishing history.
The infamous Paige Compositor. More about it.
Remembering the U.S. Civil War-- dead soldiers at Antietam; anticipating trench warfare.
Does all sf tend to become military sf?
Key lines from Twain's novel: "Training is all there is"... "any Established church"... "a man is a man at bottom."
More key lines: the "ossifying" effects of slavery. Gutenberg, Arkwright, and so on, the real creators.
What Arkwright invented: the water-frame loom. A late nineteenth century Singer sewing machine.
Mark Twain and Nicola Tesla on public radio. (They don't become close till after the Yankee, though.)
An ad for tooth polish (1913).
The past is a place (apologies to Bud Foote.)
Hawthorne: a famous garden.
Hawthorne: Genesis 3, the Fall.
Hawthorne: the Roman god Vertumnus, a dude made in part of fruit.
Artificial selection gave us maize, or American corn.
The dark purple flower of doom.
Nightshade's purple flowers and dark fruit.
An apparently reliable academically sponsored reading edition of "Rappaccini's Daughter," from Jack Lynch's miscellany of online texts.
From the University of Virginia, a useful guide to contexts for Twain's Yankee.
An 1889 edition of Connecticut Yankee.
About the production of Yankee and the illustrations by Dan Beard; a few of Twain's favorites.
A symbol for Connecticut.
The marvelous lightning rod.
Mark Twain's house in Hartford (built 1873-74); a virtual tour.
Illustrating Malory's Morte d'Arthur with 1890s artist Aubrey Beardsley.
P. T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting (1886).
A full suit of armor. Heavy, isn't it?
Contemporary recreational armor.
The advent of outdoor electric lights.
An early telephone (1876).
Knights on pennyfarthing bicycles.
From the Mark Twain Museum in Missouri, a Twain timeline and brief publishing history.
The infamous Paige Compositor. More about it.
Remembering the U.S. Civil War-- dead soldiers at Antietam; anticipating trench warfare.
Does all sf tend to become military sf?
Key lines from Twain's novel: "Training is all there is"... "any Established church"... "a man is a man at bottom."
More key lines: the "ossifying" effects of slavery. Gutenberg, Arkwright, and so on, the real creators.
What Arkwright invented: the water-frame loom. A late nineteenth century Singer sewing machine.
Mark Twain and Nicola Tesla on public radio. (They don't become close till after the Yankee, though.)
An ad for tooth polish (1913).
The past is a place (apologies to Bud Foote.)
Hawthorne: a famous garden.
Hawthorne: Genesis 3, the Fall.
Hawthorne: the Roman god Vertumnus, a dude made in part of fruit.
Artificial selection gave us maize, or American corn.
The dark purple flower of doom.
Nightshade's purple flowers and dark fruit.
An apparently reliable academically sponsored reading edition of "Rappaccini's Daughter," from Jack Lynch's miscellany of online texts.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
H. G. Wells
A reliable text for The Time Machine (book version). First book edition.
Darko Suvin excludes some fiction from "science fiction" (1978), and offers an sf theory list in 1979.
Suvin gets interviewed at length in 1991.
The H. G. Wells Society and its journal.
Jules Verne versus H. G. Wells.
From the 1977 Burt Lancaster Island of Dr. Moreau.
Wells in 1926: respectable enough for the cover of TIME.
Wells as guiding spirit for a Romanian science fiction club.
British disasters and longue durée sf after Wells.
Toy Time Machines and a toy Time Traveller, by the sadly defunct toy designer Spookypop.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, outside and inside.
A poster for George Pal's 1960 film version.
Pure wonder.
Sketchy terror.
The future of characteristically British sadness.
Harmless flowers. More harmless flowers.
In a coal mine (Illustrated London News, 1876).
Coming out of a coal mine.
Contemplating evolution.
A real giant centipede, not for the squeamish, and some attractive jellyfish.
Darko Suvin excludes some fiction from "science fiction" (1978), and offers an sf theory list in 1979.
Suvin gets interviewed at length in 1991.
The H. G. Wells Society and its journal.
Jules Verne versus H. G. Wells.
From the 1977 Burt Lancaster Island of Dr. Moreau.
Wells in 1926: respectable enough for the cover of TIME.
Wells as guiding spirit for a Romanian science fiction club.
British disasters and longue durée sf after Wells.
Toy Time Machines and a toy Time Traveller, by the sadly defunct toy designer Spookypop.
The Victoria and Albert Museum, outside and inside.
A poster for George Pal's 1960 film version.
Pure wonder.
Sketchy terror.
The future of characteristically British sadness.
Harmless flowers. More harmless flowers.
In a coal mine (Illustrated London News, 1876).
Coming out of a coal mine.
Contemplating evolution.
A real giant centipede, not for the squeamish, and some attractive jellyfish.
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