History of Science Fiction From a Personal Perspective

Kristine Kathryn Rusch and I have been around science fiction for a very long time. I sold my first short story to a small science fiction magazine fifty-one years ago.

During the early decades in the field of science fiction and fantasy, we got to know many of the writers who helped start and build the genre. You see, science fiction is a very young genre.

Granted Mary Shelly and Jules Verne and H.G. Wells wrote early stories, but it wasn't until the early 1920s with the advent of many pulp magazines that Hugo Gernsbeck coined the phrase "science fiction." So just over a hundred years old now.

So Kris and I are going to put our memories together and I am going to tell some stories about the fantastic men and women we met and got to know and learned from who were in those early days, and the middle generation as well.

This will be four weeks long with what we hope is a lot of knowledge and some entertaining stories. No assignments, just information and entertainment. New week's videos will appear every Tuesday.

Hope you join us.