Hacking the Scientific Imagination.

The article focuses on opening editorial of the magazine "Amazing Stories" in which editor Hugo Gernsback extolled virtues of tales claiming its instructiveness and mentions expanded the virtues of scientifiction. Topics discussed include depicting racial discrimination as a relic of the past and ra...

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Published in:	Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 28 - 47
Main Author:	Milburn, Colin
Format:	Article
Published:	International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts 2016
Subjects:	Amazing Stories (Periodical) Gernsback, Hugo, 1884-1967 Science fiction Race discrimination Colonialism & the Emergence of Science Fiction (Book)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	The article focuses on opening editorial of the magazine "Amazing Stories" in which editor Hugo Gernsback extolled virtues of tales claiming its instructiveness and mentions expanded the virtues of scientifiction. Topics discussed include depicting racial discrimination as a relic of the past and races, revolutionary implications of imagining race as technology and book "Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction" by John Rieder.