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Many of the most enduring science fiction tropes were established in Golden Age literature. Space opera came to prominence with the works of E. E. "Doc" Smith; Isaac Asimov established the canonical Three Laws of Robotics beginning with the 1941 short story "Runaround"; the same period saw the writing of genre classics such as the Asimov's Foundation and Smith's Lensman series.
Several stories within the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights, 8th–10th centuries CE) also feature science fiction elements.One example is "The Adventures of Bulukiya", where the protagonist Bulukiya's quest for the herb of immortality leads him to explore the seas, journey to the Garden of Eden and to Jahannam (Islamic hell), and travel across the cosmos to different worlds much ...
This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance-era precursors and proto-science fiction as well, as long as these examples include typical science fiction themes and topoi such as travel to outer space and encounter with alien life-forms.
Science Fiction Stories: 1956 A Year in the Linear City: Paul Di Filippo: 2002 All Summer in a Day: Ray Bradbury: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 1954 All You Zombies: Robert A. Heinlein: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 1959 Allamagoosa: Eric Frank Russell: Analog Science Fiction: 1955 And I Awoke and Found Me Here on ...
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 8 (1946) is an English language science fiction story collection, edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg. [1] It is part of a series which attempts to list the great science fiction stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. They date the Golden Age as beginning in 1939 and lasting until 1963.
They date the Golden Age as beginning in 1939 and lasting until 1963. The book was later reprinted as the second half of Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction, Third Series with the first half being Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 5 (1943). This volume was originally published by DAW books in December 1981. [1]
The book was later reprinted as the second half of Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction, Sixth Series with the first half being Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 11 (1949). It was the last book in the series to be reprinted as part of the Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction series.
They date the Golden Age as beginning in 1939 and lasting until 1963. The book was later reprinted as the second half of Isaac Asimov Presents The Golden Years of Science Fiction, Fifth Series with the first half being Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 9 (1947). This volume was originally published by DAW books in August 1983. [1]