Explorers of the Infinite : Shapers of Science Fiction

The men and women who shaped the direction of science fiction —the great, the near-great and the very popular —from the beginnings the 17th century up through the 1930's. Here we find the literary contests between Percy Bysshe Shelley. Lord Byron Dr. John Polidori and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley that resulted in Frankenstein; the first discussion of an artificial earth satellite in a story by Edward Everett Hale, author of The Man Without a Country; the little-known American dime novelist from whom Jules Verne borrowed the central ideas for three of his famous tales, as well as A. Merritt, M. P. Shiel, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. P. Lovecraft, Olaf Stapledon, Philip Wylie, Karel Capek, Hugo Gernsback, Fitz-James O'Brien, Stanley G. Weinbaum, and others.