8th+grade+-+Golden+Age+of+SF+-+1950s

Roberto Gonzalez: The 50's were a great time period for sci-fi writers. Most of the writers were part of the Beat generation like Capote and Vonnegut. Also many writers got their inspirarion from spacetravel or the launch of sattelites, which first occured in the 50's. The only thing that I say that influenced sci-fi even more is WWII. Science fiction writers were filled with the enthusiasm that pretty soon the human race will finally go into space.

After the first sattelites were launched into space many sci-fi writers wrote more on the topics of epic journeys into space and aliens taking over the world. For example the story we read in class with the people traveling into space with their mind uploaded into a chip. Although I forgot the name this story is a good exampe of how spacertravel from this time period influenced later years.

T The Beat generation was the majority of the authors in the 1950's even though none of the sci-fi writers of the time were not considered beat generation. Now though sci-fi has less writers and is starting to die down. But there are still sci-fi writers and now more are becoming Beat generation.Like the story where the alien and the human have a relationship, that story put the author in the beat generation which shows that the literature from the 50's infkuenced the literature now.

The Golden Age of Sci-fi was at its end in the 1950's. I would say because of the contents sci-fi had that the Beat Generation started to put in thier stories. Alos since much of it included space travel and I say writers stopped basing their stories on spacetravel because they were afraid to be wrong or eventually led into the death of many astrounaunts.Also with the nuclear weapons out the writers couldlead from writing about using them to actually using them and lead into a necluear war.