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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.
Mathematical fiction is a genre of creative fictional work in which mathematics and mathematicians play important roles. The form and the medium of the works are not important. The form and the medium of the works are not important.
First issue of Amazing Stories, dated April 1926, cover art by Frank R. Paul. Science-fiction and fantasy magazines began to be published in the United States in the 1920s. . Stories with science-fiction themes had been appearing for decades in pulp magazines such as Argosy, but there were no magazines that specialized in a single genre until 1915, when Street & Smith, one of the major pulp ...
See also External links A Catherine Asaro, around 2009 Isaac Asimov, before 1959 Margaret Atwood, 2015 Dafydd ab Hugh (born 1960) Alexander Abasheli (1884–1954) Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926) Kōbō Abe (1924–1993) Robert Abernathy (1924–1990) Dan Abnett (born 1965) Daniel Abraham (born 1969) Forrest J Ackerman (1916–2008) Douglas Adams (1952–2001) Robert Adams (1932–1990) Ann ...
Two were edited by Quinn: The First World of If (1957) and The Second World of If (1958); four by Pohl: The Best Science Fiction from If (1964), The If Reader of Science Fiction (1966), The Second If Reader of Science Fiction (1968), and Worlds of If (1986); and two by Jakobsson, both published as by "The Editors of If": The Best from If (1973 ...
The Five Gold Bands by Jack Vance, Startling Stories (November), an adventure where a man seeks the secret to interstellar travel hidden in five gold bracelets.; The Hand of Zei by L. Sprague de Camp, Astounding Science Fiction (October – January 1951), two explorers face piracy and royal intrigue while searching for a missing person and dealing with forbidden love.
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Others preferred to think of the fourth dimension in spatial terms, and some associated the new mathematics with wider changes in modern culture. In science fiction, a higher "dimension" often refers to parallel or alternate universes or other imagined planes of existence. This usage is derived from the idea that to travel to parallel/alternate ...