Beyond this place...
“When the old mapmakers got to the edge of the world, they used
to write, ‘Beyond this place, there be dragons.’”
---Barclay Cole in Out
of Africa , 1985.
This same adage could apply
to the world of science fiction – while not all SF deals with dragons, it
certainly deals with the unknown universe beyond our borders. Science fiction stories first appeared in
1911, as a series of stories in Modern
Electronics, but the terminology used to describe it came along later. Hugo Gernsback, the father of science
fiction, originally labeled it “scientifiction.” (The first known appearance of the word
scientifiction was in “Baron Münchhausen’s New Scientific Adventures: Thought
Transmission on Mars,” The Electrical
Experimenter, January 1916, page 474.)
For more details, see “Evolution of Modern Science Fiction” by Hugo
Gernsback,
Science fiction sites I like to keep handy:
Alan Dean Foster's personal website
Magic: The Gathering – from
Wizards of the Coast
Miss
Pickerell – children’s book series
Science Fiction and
Fantasy Research Database
SciFan – books & links for the science
fiction fan - searchable by series or genre
Ultimate Science
Fiction Web Guide
Wonderful
Flight to the Mushroom Planet – by Eleanor Cameron
Yoda wallpaper (my favorite image) – from a 1983
painting by Michael Whelan – notice Yoda’s left-handed!
Image
originally taken from Comic Art Studio
webpage – where you could purchase these whimsical wax figurines. Company no longer in business.
Links checked: July 3, 2008
Last updated: July 3, 2008
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