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The eponymous protagonist saves the life of the heroine by directing energy remotely at an approaching avalanche. As the novel goes on, he describes the technological wonders of the modern world, frequently using the phrase "As you know..." The hero finally rescues the heroine by travelling into space on his own "space flyer" to rescue her from the villain's clutches.

When you hear Sci-Fi, do your normally think of Arthur Conan Doyle, J.R.R. Tolkien, H.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, or George Orwell? Or do some more recent authors come to mind? Looking for your next sci-fi must-read? We've pulled together some of the favourite science fiction novels. Some are eerily plausible, others are wild trips of the imagination, but all present compelling visions of our possible future. Science fiction quite literally means the literature of change; this includes all the modern day technological and scientific advancements to create an imaginative future. Some of these are classic tales you will surely know, but others are excellent works of science fiction that may have been flying under the radar. Contents: 1. Mary W. Shelley: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus; ill. D. Fisher 2. Robert Louis Stevenson: The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 3. Edward Bulwer-Lytton: The Coming Race 4. H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds; ill. D. Fisher 5. Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 6. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Poison Belt 7. Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars 8. Jack London: The Scarlet Plague 9. William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland 10. Hugo Gernsback: Ralph 124C 41+: A Romance of the Year 2660

In 1905, a young Jewish immigrant from Luxembourg founded an electrical supply shop in New York. This inventor, writer, and publisher Hugo Gernsback would later become famous for launching the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. But while science fiction’s annual Hugo Awards were named in his honor, there has been surprisingly little understanding of how the genre began among a community of tinkerers all drawn to Gernsback’s vision of comprehending the future of media through making. In The Perversity of Things, Grant Wythoff makes available texts by Hugo Gernsback that were foundational both for science fiction and the emergence of media studies. Wythoff argues that Gernsback developed a means of describing and assessing the cultural impact of emerging media long before media studies became an academic discipline. From editorials and blueprints to media histories, critical essays, and short fiction, Wythoff has collected a wide range of Gernsback’s writings that have been out of print since their magazine debut in the early 1900s. These articles cover such topics as television; the regulation of wireless/radio; war and technology; speculative futures; media-archaeological curiosities like the dynamophone and hypnobioscope; and more. All together, this collection shows how Gernsback’s publications evolved from an electrical parts catalog to a full-fledged literary genre. The Perversity of Things aims to reverse the widespread misunderstanding of Gernsback within the history of science fiction criticism. Through painstaking research and extensive annotations and commentary, Wythoff reintroduces us to Gernsback and the origins of science fiction.

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Armchair Fiction presents classic sci-fi double novels with original illustrations. Well, here it is...the 200th double novel in Armchair Fiction's D-series. Our first double novel, D-1, "The Galaxy Raiders & Space Station #1," came out back in December of 2010. So we thought we'd celebrate this momentous 200th edition with one of the first "modern" science fiction novels ever written, "Baron Münchhausen's Scientific Adventures" written by the man often referred to as the father of modern science fiction, Hugo Gernsback (with marvelous Frank R. Paul illustrations). Gernsback, also the founder of the first sci-fi pulp magazine, Amazing Stories, spins a grand tale of sci-fi adventure, interlaced with lots of hard science. Baron Münchhausen's scientific ponderings, many of which are still believed in today's scientific circles, tell the wild tale of man's first trip to the Moon and the discovery of life on Mars. It is an inspiring, gripping tale of spaceships, adventurous men, and the battle of Martian intelligence versus the unrelenting forces of Nature. Read on...a grand time is guaranteed for all! The second novel is "Revolution of 1950" by Stanley Weinbaum and Ralph Milne Farley. It was the day tyranny gripped America. The events in Washington D.C. couldn't be happening--but they were. Steel Jeffers had been elected President promising a platform of change. But the change promised and the change the country got were two different things. Soon his political foes began to disappear. After coming into undisputed control of all three branches of the government, there came the first rumblings against his new executive powers. But a few ruthless blood-purges quickly drove the opposition for cover. After he eliminated the FBI and gave more power to the Army, the country soon realized it had fallen into the grip of a ruthless despot. But an underground rebellion was afoot, and its leader, Lieutenant Jack Adams, had managed to snag a position within the White House itself. What he discovered there was an amazing conspiracy, steeped in fantastic science, with a culmination almost too astonishing to believe.

Hugo Gernsback, the publisher of the first American Science Fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, issued at least eighteen 24-page chapbooks between 1929 and 1932, each containing one or two stories. This book collects together 6 of those chapbooks, with a total of 7 stories by such authors as Jack Williamson, Manly Wade Wellman, and David H. Keller M.D. From Pulpville Press.

In 1915 the father of modern science fiction contributed to the long list of adventures of the 18th century super-hero, Baron Münchausen. Hugo Gernsback used his magazine Electrical Experimenter as a proving ground for his theory that science fiction could be used to teach science. Never before published as a book, and complete with the original illustrations, this is early 20th century science fiction by the man who made science fiction famous. Hugo Gernsback is often called the father of science-fiction. In 1926 he created the worlds first regular science fiction periodical, Amazing Stories but long before that he tested the market for science fiction within the pages of his science magazines. Between 1912 and 1929 Gernsback was the unchallenged champion of fiction with a scientific edge. In the 1950s the highest award in science fiction was named after him.

One was a plan to equip certain cities with huge tanks of chloroform (or similar narcotic gases). Then, when a 10-Ball descended over a house in that city, the special gas was to be diverted into the city's regular gas mains. Citizens about to be kidnapped would quickly open their gas burners, freeing the narcotic gasses. These gases would then go up through the purple tube and render the Xenos unconscious.

This volume, Amazing Stories, Volume 1, No. 1, was originally published in 1926 by Experimenter Publishing Company, New York, and until now only available in rare print volumes, scans, or as plain text files produced via computer OCR, which results in numerous errors and mistakes and lack formatting. This version, by Sulis International, has been carefully edited, formatted, and typeset. We have left most archaic spellings and words as in the original, only editing for punctuation, typographical errors, and formatting._Amazing Stories_ was founded and published by Hugo Gernsback in 1926, and continued to be published monthly or bi-monthly until 2014 (with some interruptions). This first volume, published in April of 1926, contained reprints of stories, some in serial format across multiple volumes, and included such established authors as Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe. The introductions and call-outs in the stories show Gernsback's preference for "scientification," where he explains and comments on each story.Gernsback believed that the goal of science fiction was to both entertain and to teach, a characteristic he called "scientification." Though readers found fantastic stories more interesting, and the magazine began including more such stories, _Amazing Stories_ is responsible for created the genre of science fiction magazines and the first science fiction fan club. Authors such as Isaac Asimov, John W. Campbell, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Roger Zelazny would have their first stories published in _Amazing Stories_.

Original 80 page 1910 Hugo Gernsback visionary pamphlet on the Wireless Telephone. "The future use of the wireless telephone will be confined to low power battery systems, be as flexible as the wire telephone of today. The author predicts that in less than 10 years this stage will have been reached as it is bound to come sooner or later." See wireless telephone in its earliest experimental birth, featuring plans for a working wireless phone with only 7 parts! And an earthen wireless phone with only 3 parts! Bradshaw Lupton, ePublisher, June 2012

Annual Christmas booklet issued by publisher Hugo Gernsback.