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1 online resource (433 pages) |
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Fighting the Future War An Anthology of Science Fiction War Stories, 1914-1945; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE Hugo Gernsback and World War I; Chapter 1 Hugo Gernsback "IMAGINATION VERSUS FACTS" (THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER, APRIL 1916); Chapter 2 Hugo Gernsback "THE TRENCH DESTROYER" (THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER, FEBRUARY 1917); Chapter 3 Hugo Gernsback "SHOOTING WITH ELECTRICITY" (THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER, JUNE 1917); Chapter 4 Hugo Gernsback "WINNING THE WAR" (THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER, MAY 1918) |
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Chapter 5 Hugo Gernsback "SCIENCE AND WAR" (THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER, JUNE 1918)Chapter 6 Hugo Gernsback "WILL THE GERMANS BOMBARD NEW YORK?" (THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER, JULY 1918); Chapter 7 Hugo Gernsback "THE MAGNETIC STORM" (THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER, AUGUST 1918); PART TWO The Future War Story during World War I; Chapter 8 C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne "THE INVENTOR OF MELTITE" (LONDON MAGAZINE, 1916); Chapter 9 George Frederic Stratton "OMEGON" (THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER, SEPTEMBER 1915) |
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Chapter 10 George Frederic Stratton "THE GRAVITATION NULLIFIER" (THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER, OCTOBER 1915)Chapter 11 C.M. Adams "EDDY CURRENTS" (THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER, MAY 1917); PART THREE The Inter-war Years and the Rise of the Airmen; Chapter 12 Hugo Gernsback "FICTION VERSUS FACTS" (AMAZING STORIES, JULY 1926); Chapter 13 Philip Francis Nowlan "ARMAGEDDON-2419 A.D." (AMAZING STORIES, AUGUST 1928); Chapter 14 David H. Keller "THE BLOODLESS WAR" (AIR WONDER STORIES, JULY 1929); Chapter 15 Louis Buswell "CLOUDS OF DEATH" (AMAZING STORIES, JUNE 1929) |
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Chapter 16 David Lasser "THE ROCKET AND THE NEXT WAR" (PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, AMERICAN ROCKET SOCIETY, 1931)Chapter 17 Nathan Schachner "THE REVOLT OF THE SCIENTISTS" (WONDER STORIES, APRIL 1933); PART FOUR The Ambivalence of Science: Technology and Armageddon; Chapter 18 Carl W. Spohr"THE FINAL WAR: PART 2" (WONDER STORIES, APRIL 1932); Chapter 19 Charles Willard Diffin "HOLOCAUST" (ASTOUNDING STORIES, JUNE 1931); Chapter 20 Nat Schachner "WORLD GONE MAD" (AMAZING STORIES, OCTOBER 1935); Chapter 21 Leigh Keith "NO MEDALS" (ASTOUNDING STORIES, MARCH 1935) |
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Chapter22 Major J. Halpin Connolly "WAR IN A MECHANISTIC CIVILIZATION" (INFANTRY JOURNAL, JULY 1939)PART FIVE After the Future War; Chapter 23 Francis Flagg "AFTER ARMAGEDDON" (WONDER STORIES, SEPTEMBER 1932); Chapter 24 C.L. Moore "THERE SHALL BE DARKNESS" (ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, FEBRUARY 1942); Chapter 25 Stanton A. Coblentz "THE GREEN PLAGUE" (ASTOUNDING STORIES, APRIL 1934); Chapter 26 Joseph E. Kelleam "RUST" (ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, OCTOBER 1939); PART SIX World War II; Chapter 27 Frederic Arnold Kummer, Jr "THE ICE PLAGUE" (AMAZING STORIES, OCTOBER 1939) |
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The period between World War I and World War II was one of intense change. Everything was modernizing, including our technology for making war-witness machine guns, trench warfare, biological agents, and ultimately The Final Solution. This modernization and eye toward the future was reflected in many facets of pop culture, including fashion, home-wear design, and the popular literature of the time. In sci-fi, a specific genre emerged-that of the 'future war.'Fred Krome has collected many of these future war stories together for the first time in Fighting the Future War. Bols |
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Chapter 28 Alexander Blade "DR LOUDON'S ARMAGEDDON" (AMAZING STORIES, SEPTEMBER 1941) |
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Science fiction, American.
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War stories, American.
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Science fiction, American
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War stories, American
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Electronic book
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9780203810590 |
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0203810597 |
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