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Ana The importance of the Golden Age The Golden Age

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often takes place in the future and usually involves speculations based on current science and or technology. This genre was in a very high demand back in the days and gained such a wide public attention from the late 1930s to the early 1950s that it was named the Golden Age because science fiction reached its peak during this period. The Golden Age is said to have begun around 1939 and ended in the early 1950s. This period was an age in which science fiction became widely known by mostly anybody. The Golden age, all it was is science fiction. Because science fiction was in such high demand, most publishers were focused on books of this type. Mostly any book dealing with science fiction was sure to be published because good books were difficult to find and also because the readers didn’t have any time to waste. John W. Campbell was one leading influence on the creation of the Golden Age. In the genre of editor and publisher for nemerous magazines, he became legendary. Science fiction developed more realism to characterization than it exhibited in the Gernsbackian"'super science" era under the editorship of Campbell. "The July 1939 issue of Astounding Science Fiction containing the first published stories of both A. E. van Vogt and Isaac Asimov is widely considered to be the start of the Golden ages of science fictions.” During this age science fiction became the limelight, many because rockets, spacecrafts, space shuttles, and other exciting technology that would change the course of human life had or was in the process of being invented. Many teenagers dreamed of one time becoming those who would operate that type of technology, but meanwhile they would have to read books filled with machines. “The impression of many parents at the time, however, was often tinged with dismay and intolerance, sometimes sparked by the racy cover illustrations of pulp science fiction."

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