History of Science Fiction From a Personal Perspective
History, information and Entertaining Stories of Writers and Others
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. Hope you join us.
Your Instructor
Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published over two hundred novels and over seven hundred books, and hundreds and hundreds of short stories. He has over thirty million copies of his books in print.
At the moment he produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the cold case mystery series, Cold Poker Gang series, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy.
For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com