From Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, through Hugo Gernsback and John W. Campbell, Jr., to Gregory Benford and J.G. Ballard, SF's "hardness" has been both help and hindrance to popular and critical ...

The early science fiction novel "Ralph 124C 41+" by Hugo Gernsback made a number of stunning predictions, including solar power, radar, and television. But most stunning for a novel written in ...

As introductory comments indicate, Gernsback was primarily interested in recruiting authors for his magazine Scientific Detective Monthly, and many of his comments focus on the subgenre he hoped to ...