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The Golden Age was a period often recognized as a period from the late 1930's or early 1940's through 1950's. It was an era in which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic sci-fi stories were published. Linear narratives, heroes solving problems, space and technological adventure idiom is all sci-fi. Some writers popular in the sci-fi period of the golden age are Robert Silverberg, Issac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury etc. The sayin,"The golden age of science fiction is twelve," from the fanPeter Graham, means that many readers use"golden age" to mean the time when they first developed a passion for science fiction, often in many readers.The golden age was like a whole new world where you could create new ideas and predict your own technological future. This writing shared information about things that were said to take place in the future by certain authors. It included scientific beings, some outside this earth, that existed in the stories of the writers. The stories were a hit. They were the best things out at that time that is why it was the golden age. It was the greatest period, where the sci-fi books were sold everday. As an event that affected the psyches of a great number of young people during World War II and the resulting Cold War, science fiction's Golden Age has left a great impression on society. The beginning of the Golden Age was like the first Worldcon in 1939 and, especially for it's fans, science fiction was becomming a powerful social force. The genre, particularly during its Golden Age, had somewhat indirect effect on military leaders, information on technology, Hollywood and science itself. The impression on many parents though, however, was often looked at by the parents with disappointment. It sometimes had racial covers and illustrations of pulp science fiction The reason why the books were so poular is because they caught the reader's eye. The authors actually made some people believe this is what was going to happen in the world. It gave people a vision of the future. People had never read books like this where things unusual and unordinary happened. People would have never guess in a million years events like this could happen. Wouldn't you be interested to know about the future? The stories were ahead of their time. The stories became so loved by the public the people were always reading them and they always would sell. The Golden Age has come to an end. All the popular stories have gone out. They are now classics. It sparked up and went out in a matter of about 20 or 30 years. Between that time writing became golden. Sci-fi took off.Now other genres are becomming popular and the small light over sci-fi has gone out. The golden age now is just ordinary. It is not selling of the shelves like it did then. You may occasionaly see someone reading one, but they are no longer the top books. People may still be intersted, but this period is now gone. Writers still look back on science fiction books and see what happened to the genre of science fiction during that time. The golden age went out because new ideas about writing began including new ideas in sci-fi. Once different styles of writing started becomming new people forgot about sci-fi. Also back then, our present day now was the future to them. Some of the things they've written about still haven't come true. Since people didn't see the extraordinary things like in the book happen they lost interest. Now in the present day their are so many technological advances that it's hard to imagine how some things can be upgraded or become better than they are. Now the age of sci-fi has come to an end. There is still things on T.V that may show you sci-fi like Andromeda, Star trek, and maybe snake people, but people don't believe like they use to. The books no longer sell like they use to. Once the author sees his books are not selling he retires from the job. Not creating anymore great stories for people to read, see, an imagine how it would be if that certain event happened. This is the end of the golden age.

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 * Aaron Thomas**