Hugo Gernsback - Pulp! Amazing Stories - Extra Sci Fi

[@extrahistory]

It’s the roaring twenties. And in science fiction, as in world affairs, America is about to take center stage. Let's take a look at the birth of pulp sci fi!

[@LordBloodySoul]

Gernsback might not be that much of a writer, but his covers wereone of the best :3

[@grejen711]

@6:27 Seems to be the birth of a social media of sorts as well. A snail mail net? Include full addresses! Yikes. Not something you can get away with int 2018!

[@quintu5]

*Please give me my Frank Herbert and Isaac Asimov Episode* !

[@grejen711]

Heinlein! Robots!

[@BrandonPatrickDev]

I'd love to see a more extensive list of your recommended books, beyond the reading list on the website. Do any of the EC crew have a GoodReads account to follow?

[@LaZodiac]

I love that this guy, who's very important, all he really did was let people know "this exists" and then basically failed his way into getting an award named after him.

[@kyletowers9662]

Like all great Americans!

[@Edax_Royeaux]

He did a better job then we are doing today. The Environmental Protection Agency is now run by people who don't believe in science. When will the next visionary come along and tell us that Science actually exists?

[@vdate]

'Doing it first' is potent mojo. Not infallible - just ask Alfred Russel Wallace - but potent enough to overcome a great many failings. (Alternatively: in a community as geographically disparate as the early SF community seems to have been, letting people know 'this exists' in a form they could find whilst browsing the newsstand may just have been important enough.)

[@112steinway]

It was sci fi pulp culture that inspired Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster to write a story about a all powerful, bald villain who wanted to take over the world. When that didn't work they changed him to a good guy and gave him a costume reminiscent of a circus strongman. Thankfully, they decided to keep the name from their original creation and thus, Superman was born.

[@metarcee2483]

Their original idea became Lex Luthor.

[@shawnheatherly]

Gernsback, like many figures in history, had his failings that shouldn't be ignored, but cannot be allowed to overshadow his legacy.

[@riverzebra]

I love this time period of sci-fi. Reading and hearing about these people motivates me to keep on keeping on with my writing and learn the craft as something more than just a hobby. Can't wait to see the next few weeks!

[@Ryukachoo]

2:56 printing fan's full addresses in a publicly circulated article it was a simpler time

[@Croc1513]

You can't know how much I love this series. I'm not even that into reading books of this era so I'm learning a lot.

[@JustJunuh]

Thanks to you guys I'm listening to sci-fi audiobooks. I'm listening to 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea right now, and I love it!! This series has opened up a whole new world to me. Thank you.

[@malcomalexander9437]

Fun fact: Lovecraft did not like Gernsback, as Hugo paid him late, and paid him poorly. In fact The Colour Out of Space is the only story Lovecraft did for Amazing Stories. Also Lovecraft had a nickname for Gernsback, Hugo the Rat.

[@leilavalens3617]

And seeing as Lovecraft lived in poverty, I don't blame him. With all the bad stuff he was going through (aforementioned poverty, plus mental illness, a failed marriage, and a less-than-ideal family), the last thing he needed was getting screwed over by a corrupt publisher.

[@xxxdumbwordstupidnumberxxx4844]

@Oscar Wind One more thing to hate Gernsback for, or one more thing to hate Lovecraft for?

[@nejolo9563]

Lovecraft didn’t like anyone except his Mommy.

[@kasjachrum]

@@nejolo9563 and maybe his cat.

[@kieranroberts734]

I don't know why learning about these people fills me with so much emotion

[@robrod7120]

Can't wait to get into authors like Douglas Adams! one of my favorite writers of all time

[@bentley2678]

What a great series! The writing and art are so well done, it blows me away

[@seraph_77]

The art in this series is consistently a delight

[@writingstuff3502]

Love these super cool videos! Not a big sci-fi fan myself, but as a fan of writing, these videos are really entertaining. You should eventually just do an entire Extra Literature series, talking about all kinds of genres.

[@F011esGuy]

Hi, Extra Sci Fiers. Thank you for this delightful look at the life and legacy of Hugo Gernsback. Were you aware that he didn't use the term "science fiction" himself, preferring to call what he published "scientifiction?" I'm writing just to let you know that after an absence of over a decade, Amazing Stories is back! We recently ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund our first couple of issues, and are currently open for submissions from the general public. The first issue of the relaunched Amazing Stories will be distributed at WorldCon in San Jose in August; it features work by Allen Steele and Kameron Hurley, among other writers you may be familiar with. We hope to honor Gernsback's legacy while creating a magazine that is exciting for 21st century fans. To the Future! Ira Nayman, editor, Amazing Stories

[@connorwalters3240]

I have a huge freaking collection of Pulp Sci-fi comics/graphic novels from my uncle. The books are called Weird Fantasy, and they're pretty cool!

[@connorwalters3240]

And they are also kind of campy. And weird as hell. Like, acid trip in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory while playing Cards Against Humanity with an epileptic Kubrick level weird!

[@MegaNocab]

Not sure if that makes me want to read them or run screaming for the hills.

[@Pluveus]

The answer is yes.

[@TheKrostiman]

MegaNocab Isn’t that the best though?

[@Some_Guy_In_Ohio]

MegaNocab - the answer is yes, but not necessarily in that order :-)

[@Ouvii]

Man, I really really like the inclusions of both positives and negatives in this video, it really helps to get a meaningful perspective.

[@TheCreepypro]

I knew I recognized this man name but I couldn't remember from what so thanks for reminding me this scifi series is the best hope it never ends!

[@alexandercolefield9523]

god damn, who ever timed the previous episode at the end credit popping up is a god, its so satisfying on a number of levels wtf

[@dotter8]

Just one thing; you could certainly say that Science Fiction Fandom, (the fandom which coined the term "fandom"), began in the letters column of Amazing. But it wasn't just that fans learned each other's addresses and started communicating. In many cases, they learned that another fan lived just down the street!

[@testrichter]

I'm really enjoying this series of videos and can't wait for the next - I hope that in the future you discuss Daniel F Galouye's Simulacron-3 :-D And I hope that you could do a similar series, but for mystery fiction.

[@benjamincaldona4290]

I have to re-watch the previous episodes and write down all the books you mentioned and added them to my want-to-read list.

[@schizoidboy]

I look up to the Pulp writers of the past. They were often desperate and trying to earn a living and they had to write consistently to make a bare living as a writer, yet they were often colorful people too, coming from various backgrounds and weren't academically trained, yet they influenced other writers to come, especially those in the noir crime writers.

[@BlueDog241]

Can't wait for the next episode! I'm a huge Lovecraft fan. I love this series. Great job.

[@redlink4434]

I've never been here so early, love this channel!

[@TodayLifeIsGoood]

Nice to see someone originating from my small country create something so important. :D

[@Drunkieman]

Congrats on the video guys! Didn't know what a pulp was util now. Really nice!

[@asalways1504]

My first introduction to Amazing Stories was through a made for T.V. movie that was 2 separate features (Directed by Spielberg and Zemeckis) when I was younger, and got me interested in the series.

[@TheKrostiman]

Those Amazing stories covers look amazing!

[@NefariousKoel]

Ooooo! Lovecraft and Howard. Good stuff coming up! B-))

[@trollhunter864]

Simply perfect, as always

[@VCYT]

The name ''Hugo Gernsback'' sounds like a great James Bond villian !

[@massimilianotron7880]

You should do a video on Oesterheld's 'The Eternaut". I don't know how famous it is on the US, but in Argentina is considered a masterpiece (and it totally is)

[@adoredpariah]

Has anyone else read/listened to the novel The Forever War by Joe Haldeman? It is much more recent (1974) but it really stood out to me as not only ahead of its time, but timeless in its representation of a lot of aspects of humanity and really quite funny in how it flows and where it places its characters, I am only half way through it and I am in love and felt it needed a shout out.

[@merrittanimation7721]

adoredpariah I have. It was fun to compare it to Starship Troopers when I read it (the only military sci fi book I had read at the time)

[@scifantasy]

Interestingly, _The Forever War_ probably wasn't really ahead of its time--it's rather explicitly a story in reaction to the Vietnam War. And some of its aspects (especially the questions of sexuality) are...ahem...dated. That said, _The Forever War_ is considered one of the more important works of its generation of SF.

[@jamesmccool503]

I love these stories.

[@shazebrothers3]

These are always amazing, thank you.

[@philips.5563]

My old Weird Tales compilation books are some of my most prized possessions. I can't wait to see what you have to say about that magazine.

[@johndunkelburg5143]

It will be interesting to learn about the history of sci-fi during the 20s and 30s; the time that gave authors like Clarke, Asimov, and Heinlein their starts.

[@brycevo]

I still absolutely love Pulp Prints. They're absolutely Classic

[@arturoreyescortez2476]

Now we have webcomic sites, AO3, podcasts, indie video game development companies, fanart zines, KZbin, Vimeo, Tumblr, Bandcamp, Squarespace, reading circles, Blogspot, Dungeons and Dragons, LARPing, animation softwares, etc. We have evolved a lot in storytelling.

[@kymelatejasi]

I get SO fucking excited when I see another one of these! Despite how short they are...

[@wassup048]

Hugo Gernsback. Man, that was the name of the ship that went down for Jacobs father in Mass Effect. Cool that the people at Bioware used that name.

[@JoshSweetvale]

4:46 Now combine that middle cover with Carl Barks's work for Disney and you have Astro Boy. ...So TECHNICALLY that's a mecha!

[@vks_productions]

Wonderful video. Thank you!

[@spudferdpowers7080]

C'mon, you know you want to talk about Asimov.

[@Landis963]

All in good time. I get the distinct impression that they've got more of a specific curriculum in mind than they did with Extra History.

[@saraasmussen9618]

I imagine he'll pop up, at least briefly, once they get back to the golden age track.

[@varana]

They should poll the comments for most mentions (Lovecraft and Asimov at the moment, I think :D) and put those authors on the backburner. People need to have patience. :D It's one thing to suggest less widely-known or foreign authors. Constantly nagging about some of the most prominent ones gets a tad irritating after a while. Sorry, no coffee, feeling grumpy today. :/

[@betatester03]

Talking about Asimov now would be like talking about Obama in a discussion about obscure world leaders.

[@Lightstrikers]

4:46 He invented the cliche of The Golden Gate Bridge destruction by a huge monster!?

[@lisafeld8805]

These are seriously awesome. My only frustration is that Mary Shelley is the only woman profiled so far. I can't wait until we get to the '60s and '70s so we can start talking about Le Guin, McCaffrey, Cherryh, Tiptree... or the '80s, when Bujold and Butler get rolling...

[@FitzyCify]

"He had cover art, but no story to go with it" Ah, so that's where that plot point in the DS9 episode "Far Beyond The Stars" came from! :D

[@west]

This is a fun series.

[@Reoh0z]

History lets us look at the mistakes we've made. Sci-Fi lets us contemplate the mistakes we are or about to make.

[@SecretFoxfire]

Why does Jules Verne have a 'V' on him, H.G. Wells has a 'W' on him, Hugo Gernsback has a 'G', but Mary Shelley has an 'M'?

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Her name was Mary Wollstonecraft at the time, and another W would be confusing.

[@chowyee5049]

Gernsback, Father of Fandoms

[@barrybend7189]

Radio the thing that made war of the world's the greatest scare in history.

[@JohnnyElRed]

Robert E. Howard. It's funny how many times the author gets almost forgotten, while his character is recogniced by many, but not for the original works where he appeared on.

[@juani108]

Pleeease talk about Jorge Luis Borges!!

[@vks_productions]

Are there any pulp-like magazines now? By which I mean you can send in short stories and they will publish it into a magazine along with other short stories.

[@joshuadarrow]

I'm a big fan of pulp sci fi, and i hope when you get to the 50's era writers and astounding science fiction, that you make a mention of Tom Godwin.

[@corvus1374]

Why did Gernsback's inventions have faces? :) Yes, can't wait for Campbell. And Howard? Wow, I wasn't expecting that. Still wish you'd do Orouboros.

[@Theraot]

Going out on a limb here, but I suspect there is a reason for that, Who would put faces on them? Who may go around messing with history? I know, it was Walpole

[@specialnewb9821]

Hope you guys do something like this for fantasy.

[@Lady_in_Yearning]

Will you also be covering early slavic sci fi, Like Tolstoy's Aelita?

[@steve1978ger]

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[@syhusada1130]

Great

[@Ryukachoo]

2:00 THAT HECKIN SNAKE

[@DanteWilcox22]

So, a few years ago, I started to get interested in the broader spectrum of Science Fiction when I first discovered writers like Jorge Borges (who I know is definitively magical-realism, but some of his stuff really borderlines where science fiction takes off from) and some anime shows that I'd seen for the first time. That's when I realized that I had been reading sci-fi for my whole life and couldn't name one Russian, Asian, African, or etc. writer from around the world. Recently I've been trying to get more info on writers from those scenes, but it's very difficult to find English translations of anything science fiction. Is the scope of this series broad enough to incorporate the history of science fiction in these other continents and countries? Perhaps things like The Little Prince or Afrofuturism could help springboard you Eastward? I'm really liking this series, perhaps more than I thought I would, and I'd love to see you guys continue in directions no one was expecting after you finish this Western History.

[@Malcadon]

If I remember correctly, Howard and Lovecraft used to call Gernsback "Hugo the Rat" due to how he delayed or rubble checked his payments. They quickly moved to greener pastures, like Weird Tales magazine.

[@danabrown4628]

Lovecraft was only paid 25.00 for "The Colour Out of Space", published in Amazing. Gernsback made him wait years for payment.

[@nerdamongus9629]

Still waiting for an Easter egg or mention regarding Stargate, much happiness to be had for much people. Maybe a talk about the 90's TV Era? Just looking out for that fan base...

[@SimplyDudeFace]

Yeah, Campbell. Thank for going there. My guiding light, Asimov wouldn’t have gotten his start without Campbell. Can’t wait for that episode. :-)

[@merrittanimation7721]

Matthew Parets I'd like to see how they cover some of his less savory aspects and how they affected his better ones.

[@SimplyDudeFace]

They were the results of the times they lived in. The founding fathers were pompous white slave owners. But they were also great men. They the evil they did out of context isn't forgiven, but it doesn't make what they did less great.

[@merrittanimation7721]

I was more talking about his pseudoscience interest than anything

[@SimplyDudeFace]

Hmmm... that's an interesting point. I know that Asimov posted a mock research paper suggesting time travel was possible.. it never occurred to me that the practice was common, or that pseudo science was being passed off as the real thing.

[@scifantasy]

This is a conflation of two points: on the one hand, Asimov's "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" was a mock scientific article, written not to argue that time travel is possible per se, but basically to blow off steam while he was working on his chem Ph.D. He noticed that a certain chemical would dissolve so fast upon touching water, that if it dissolved any faster, it would dissolve before the water touched it...and as a result, imagined what that would look like and be described as, in a formal journal style. He expanded it out to say, well, that would screw around with causality, right? So how would that get resolved? And boom, stories about a time-traveling causal reaction. With the end result of, once you understand it and can control it... Asimov gave the writeup to Campbell because Campbell did like putting in these less-explicitly-story elements into Astounding...but begged JWC not to publish it under Asimov's name, because he didn't know how the Columbia profs who were going to judge his dissertation defense would take it. Campbell promised. And then he either forgot, or "forgot," to change the byline. It worked out, though. Asimov basically knew he'd passed when one of the proctors said with a smile, "Mr. Asimov, what can you tell me about thiotimoline?" On the other hand, the pseudoscience. In some ways Campbell was almost the reverse; he wanted the "soft" sciences "hardened." This is why you get topics like psychohistory with formal laws, or in another Asimov story, "Homo Sol," the idea that psychology and mob mentality are hard science rules. (And, because Campbell was Campbell, you often got humans breaking the rules, being more or better or just beyond.) But Campbell also did fall in with ESPers, not to mention he thought a certain L. Ron was really on to something... Both of those being said, it can't be denied, that, _even for his time_ John W. Campbell was (ahem) astoundingly racist. He argued in favor of black slavery--in the 1930s, mind you--and later supported George Wallace for president. He rejected Sam Delaney's _Nova_ explicitly because he didn't want to publish a black main character. This cannot be explained away as "a product of his time," and I would hope that any profile of him will not shy away from admitting that, just as any profile of Washington or Jefferson must acknowledge them as slaveowners (and moreso, especially in Jefferson's case).

[@agecom324]

Could you do the Pery Rhodan Series?

[@protomatt_]

If you want to learn a good bit about him; the culture around him, and the lasting impact he's had, read "Men of Tomorrow" by Gerard Jones.

[@Mechabang]

I think it's interesting to think that modern American entertainment has traces of pulp. From modern books to blockbuster movies, once, you read a number of pulps, Robert E Howard and Lovecraft for me in the beginning, you start seeing the pattern in modern entertainment. You can be certain that if "Bioshock", "Fallout", "Dungeons & Dragons", modern horror movies like "Friday The 13th", to even modern cop shows like "Blue Bloods" and, of course, "Star Wars". Pulp was cheap, simple, entertaining, and widespread to the masses in the US. Pulp magazines maybe a thing of the past in mainstream media but every branch of modern entertainment that originated from the USA can be seen and read today.

[@connorwalters3240]

You know, I wonder, has there been a resurgence of pulp fiction (not the movie) with the onset of the internet? I'm not going to say there hasn't been, because I have no idea, but the Internet seems like the perfect breeding ground for cheap pulp sci-fi

[@drakan4769]

no doubt, in an even greater fashion than what's shown in this video in fact, as EC (er... ESF?) said, with the rise of pulp the entry barrier to get what you write out to the public was lowered thanks to the introduction of cheap paper and printing, but with the internet that barrier is eliminated completely, in the developed world almost anyone has a device with access to the internet and the ability to write

[@ChristianNeihart]

Asimov Magazine is a thing. As is Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine. Podcasting has given us Uncanny Magazine, Light Speed, the Adventure Zone(if you want to stretch definitions), and Clarkesworld Magazine.

[@coastersplus]

Though it got much longer than pulp, *The Martian* was started over the Internet before becoming a proper book. (And then, of course, a great movie.)

[@Blucham]

I know it’s not exactly what you have in mind, but just considering how there are shows like “Black Mirror” on Netflix and apparently Twilight Zone is coming back, there must be a lot of good short stories to pool from. And certainly a market for bite-sized single episodes of content VS long, ongoing stories.

[@varana]

Fan fiction is a prime example of this.

[@InMaTeofDeath]

Anyone ever read the short story by Stephen King "N" from the book Just After Sunset? Think OCD combined with lovecraft. There's also a video series on youtube that is basically a shortened version of the story but it has some great artwork.

[@terryr9052]

Go Ultramarines!!

[@meinraddreizacker5845]

Terry R Double HERESY!! 1. There are NO female Astartes! 2. Smurfs drool! Alpha Legion rules!

[@austinkreulach9295]

But Sisters of Battle. Don't forget the Adepta Sororitas.

[@harveygeorgefoster]

Austin Kreulach the sisters of battle are the communities most loved army. If you ever wondered why the Warhammer community doesn't want female space marines, it because they would make sisters of battle obselete as they fill the same role.

[@harveygeorgefoster]

Richard Fore I am Alpharius

[@jamestang1227]

Ultramarines= Alpharius

[@arvidp.247]

Oooooh, that's why it's called pulp! I never thought of that.

[@megalord2331]

I really do hope you guys take do an episode on Kurt Vonnegut, the totally-not-sci-fi-just-ignore-those-aliens-and-time-travellers author.

[@misterabbadon977]

Id honestly like to see an extra sci fi cover TV and film. The rise and fall of the Star Trek franchise could be inspired

[@steepertree]

Those retro-futurist covers shown all come from later periods, well after Gernsback lost control of Amazing.

[@Artista_Frustrado]

I can't believe I never made the connection of Pulp Sci-Fi with Pulp paper

[@kerricaine]

i can't remember where, but i do remember the name "hugo gernsback" being referenced as a ship name. i wanna say in mass effect, but i don't think that's right...

[@Landis963]

Robert Taylor's ship posting (from Jacob's loyalty mission in ME2) was the _Hugo Gernsback_.

[@kerricaine]

ahh, that was it! thank you!

[@JoshSweetvale]

kamenkewl It's the mothership-carrier for the Animal Planet SciFi Safari CGI thingy.

[@stevedavidson9736]

In point of historical fact, Amazing Stories was NOT printed on pulp. In fact, Gernsback had a special, heavy weight paper designed just for the magazine.

[@TerminalSports45]

This is just out of curiosity, but are you going to eventually talk about a lot of the depression era comics like Superman (which technically is sci-fi), Buck Rodgers (the first serious sci-fi comic, first published in 1929), or Flash Gordon?

[@paulrawsonjr.2423]

Are you guys gonna talk about Ray Palmer? I recently read a biography on him and it was quite interesting.

[@aleattorium]

Oh no, it is the first time there is not a next video from Extra Credits to watch

[@antarctican_immagrants6849]

Mmm pulp, lots and lots of pulp Oh wait your talking about paper here aren't you

[@ramshackle1754]

It's entirely possible I'm mistaken, but isn't it anachronistic to refer to Gernsback's artistic style as _retro_-futuristic? When a contemporary artist draws upon that distinctive, art-deco-ish style, we would readily recognize it as retro-futuristic, but for work produced in the '20s and '30s, would it not be just futuristic?

[@ethanc5137]

Hey man at some point could you cover things like SCPs and Creepypastas I think they’re really important in our modern understanding of horror/sci-fi

[@criticalmess34]

Kaiser Wilhelm the 2nd I agree. Even if you don’t cover SCPs or Creepypastas specifically, it would be great if you talked about sci-fi on the internet and in the internet age

[@JinjaOnHere]

criticalmess34 And in today’s world, some movies and books can be written because something online got enough steam and a big movement.

[@tadghspalding2765]

I second this

[@connorwalters3240]

I was never big into that sort of thing. Seemed a little cringe. But seeing as I'm increasingly interested in writing sci-fi, I think I'll check it out.

[@connorwalters3240]

Words of advice on where to start?

[@sonofthewolfguardianofthef1214]

5:21 seeing as this was made before the Mandaloarien I’ll let it slide

[@buckyboy22]

Oh boy, sci-fi 20's.

[@stowhawk8691]

Nice

[@TheLeadhound]

I know Lovecraft would have got no where without pulp magazines and author correspondences.

[@revieman1]

please do a Hal Clement episode

[@theshadedofinnsmouth6243]

Cowboys in space? Slamjack!

[@ewftghjkl]

is there an episode about heinlein or the so called grandmasters of sci fi?

[@CHEEZBRGR01]

"Just westerns but with space monsters" Reference to Dreamsongs 2?

[@kylebell7323]

5:07 Ayyyy 40k

[@maximtrenhaile5190]

1:05 oh hey how'd you get a picture of me

[@keykylasofandros5501]

could you make a extra credits episode about how you end a game,it may be just me but after the ends of far cry 4 and primal i kept playing,i think because it wasn't a cocrete ending,it let the story keep going,after killing pagan you had to take the outposts and help the rest of kyrat,but after the far cry 5 ending it just felt like the world rebooted,i just spawned in that radio tower and i felt the was no reason to keep going

[@sephirothii13]

Hell the guys at bioware used his name for a ship in Mass Effect 2, though it was Jacob’s loyalty mission still there you go

[@guyinreallife6035]

I love old-skool scifi, despite all its faults, i fell in love with the X-1 radio series when i happened across it as a fallout new vegas mod, based on astounding scifi if i had my way i'd translate the old radio series into a tv series, probably on Netflix, and not update ANYTHING, not the speech, not the slang, not the science. if we landed on mars in 1987 and found cities full of martians and fresh air, so be it. rockets to the stars? so be it. this would include the somewhat negative aspects as well. golden age scifi is a bit sexist alot of the time, but almost never racist, but just very exclusionary, just not depicting many minorities. that said, it was OFTEN used as a vehicle for liberal reforms on those matters, women could be strong and had decent roles, if anything it suffered from 'benevolent' sexism, women will emotionally plead for peace (and will often be right) while the big strong man is actually an asshole killing or hurting for no logical reason.... and while there arent many minorities, they are often treated quite well when they are there..... I think old scifi deserves alot of credit for what it tried to get away with in a very controlled market. and i think its even more important to show how far we've come along with sneaky flashes of gender and racial equality, MANY, if not most, golden age scifi works were very anti-war. always going out of their way to point out the negatives of war, and the belief that logical, scientific minds should find ways out of war. they were also pro-environment. theres alot of good in old scifi if you look for it... but above all else there is a sense of wonder, imagination, and above all else, inspiration. they wrote about rockets to the moon and mars in the very near future because they BELIEVED in the human race, even in the post-apocalyptic stuff, they believed that the human spirit could make anything possible, so, why not be on mars in the 80s? why not colonize the universe? its the dare to dream that we just dont see at all in modern fiction. modern media is all so cold and calculated to sell. anyway... i dont think many people would be interested in it, it would be campy and old fashion, but i'd like someone to try. you can find X-1 here on youtube if you look for it

[@fireaza]

"The United States steps forward to begin it's 100 year dominence of the science fiction world. And fittingly, it does so though the use of a cutting-edge technology." Also fittingly, this was done with the intent of making obscene amounts of money.

[@sniperbosstudios8217]

Pls more ww1 vids do one on Verdun

[@sunwukongmonkeyking1809]

Armslave M9 gernsback in full metal panic anime