[SFRA-L] Gernsback scans
Phil Nichols
bradburymedia at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Sep 22 17:13:25 EDT 2011
There are quite a few scanned issues of AMAZING STORIES and other Gernsback-edited magazines on Archive.org. Here's a direct link:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=amazing%20stories
There is also a blog which has a vast collection, starting here:
http://sfmagazines.blogspot.com/search/label/1926
I suppose one should be cautious about the copyright-legitimacy of some of these, although some of them will be public domain.
- Phil
Phil Nichols
University of Liverpool (PhD student)
University of Wolverhampton (staff)
www.bradburymedia.co.uk
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4. Re: Positive visions of Chemists? (Gordon MacNeill)
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:17:59 +0330
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Dear all,
I am right now working on Gernsback as a chapter in my thesis. I would
appreciate if anyone can attach and send me any essays in pdf format or
scans? Also does anyone have any of Gernsback's editorials?
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As you may know, the Gernsback archive is in the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University. Go to this link for a brief description:
http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/g/gernsback_h.htm
Gernsback's editorials are listed as part of the collection.
Wendy Bousfield
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Subject: [SFRA-L] Any Gernsback pdfs or scans?
Dear all,
I am right now working on Gernsback as a chapter in my thesis. I would appreciate if anyone can attach and send me any essays in pdf format or scans? Also does anyone have any of Gernsback's editorials?
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:56:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: JRMadDog at aol.com
To: sfra-l at wiz.cath.vt.edu
Subject: Re: [SFRA-L] Positive visions of Chemists?
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Additional Comments received from the American Chemical Society's (ACS)
Network:
I just finished "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie", by Alan Bradley.
It is the start of a mystery series set in the 1950s, and the protagonist
is a ten-year-old girl with a passion for chemistry. The book is written
for adults, so our heroine tends to be wise beyond her years. It is fun read,
both for the chemistry and the deductive reasoning used to solve the
mystery.
Also, this is reaching into physics, but another fun read is "Bimbos from
the Death Sun," by Sharon McCrumb. It's another mystery centering around a
physicist who happens to write a highly intellectual science fiction novel.
Over his objections, his publisher gave it the afore-mentioned title, and
it became wildly popular. The story follows his adventures at a
science-fiction convention where someone is murdered. Be warned--while McCrumb is kind
to physicists in the novel, her take on science-fiction fans, as well as
the publishing industry, is somewhat more satiric.
-- Blake Aronson
A good place to start for ideas and references might be "Chemistry and
Science Fiction", a 1998 ACS publication from a 1992 National ACS Meeting
Symposium of the same name. It mostly discusses the topic of chemistry in
science fiction, but I think mentions a few stories in which a chemist is the
protagonist (not sure if they are heroic or not, though.) Carl Djerassi's
novel "The Bourbaki Gambit" has biochemists as the key protagonists in at
least a partially heroic role. Of course, Sherlock Holmes was a very good
amateur chemist, and occasionally used his knowledge of chemistry to solve
crime. There are plenty of stories with chemists portrayed as Mad
Scientists (e.g., Dr. Jekyll, Frankenstein, and a polymer chemist character named
Laszlo Jamf in Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow").
-- Robert Schmidt
The TV show MacGyver. _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver) has some details and a link to a list of
episodes. The show ran from my junior year of college through the month I got my
PhD!
-- Theodore Dibble
Regards,
James R Madden
____________________________________
From: JRMadDog at aol.com
To: sfra-l at wiz.cath.vt.edu
Sent: 9/14/2011 4:00:49 P.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: Re: [SFRA-L] Positive visions of Chemists?
I posted your request on the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Network and
have received the following so far:
"My favorite is a book called "Carver: A Life in Poems". It is all in
verse with really great pictures. Also try Djerassi and Hoffman's play
"Oxygen" Politics and science during the most turbulent time for both.
"On a side note, I had read the Dragonriders of Pern books many times as a
kid but it wasn't until I was a college chem student that I realized what
"agenothree" was. Not sure I would want a flame thrower filled with it any
more but I am still hoping for a dragon of my own."
-- Kristen Eilts
Regards,
James R Madden
____________________________________
From: psharp at exchange.calstatela.edu
To: sfra-l at wiz.cath.vt.edu
Sent: 9/9/2011 11:53:21 A.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: [SFRA-L] Positive visions of Chemists?
Hello hive mind-
I am working on a linked English class with Chemistry and am wondering if
anyone knows of some good stories with heroic chemists or chemists as
positive figures (fiction and non-fiction)? I'm teaching Carson's Silent Spring,
and would like to balance that a bit with a more positive story or two.
Best,
Patrick
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Dr. Patrick B. Sharp, Professor and Chair
Department of Liberal Studies, CSU Los Angeles
Treasurer, Science Fiction Research Association
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From: Gordon MacNeill <gorrodmac at hotmail.com>
To: SFRA <sfra-l at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
Subject: Re: [SFRA-L] Positive visions of Chemists?
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Might Wyndham's Trouble with Lichen fit the bill?
From: JRMadDog at aol.com
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:56:40 -0400
To: sfra-l at wiz.cath.vt.edu
Subject: Re: [SFRA-L] Positive visions of Chemists?
Additional Comments received from the American Chemical Society's (ACS)
Network:
I just finished "The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie", by
Alan Bradley. It is the start of a mystery series set in the 1950s, and the
protagonist is a ten-year-old girl with a passion for chemistry. The book is
written for adults, so our heroine tends to be wise beyond her years. It is fun
read, both for the chemistry and the deductive reasoning used to solve the
mystery.
Also, this is reaching into physics, but another fun read is "Bimbos from
the Death Sun," by Sharon McCrumb. It's another mystery centering around a
physicist who happens to write a highly intellectual science fiction novel. Over
his objections, his publisher gave it the afore-mentioned title, and it became
wildly popular. The story follows his adventures at a science-fiction convention
where someone is murdered. Be warned--while McCrumb is kind to physicists in the
novel, her take on science-fiction fans, as well as the publishing industry, is
somewhat more satiric.
-- Blake Aronson
A good place to start for ideas and references might be "Chemistry and
Science Fiction", a 1998 ACS publication from a 1992 National ACS Meeting
Symposium of the same name. It mostly discusses the topic of chemistry in
science fiction, but I think mentions a few stories in which a chemist is the
protagonist (not sure if they are heroic or not, though.) Carl
Djerassi's novel "The Bourbaki Gambit" has biochemists as the key protagonists
in at least a partially heroic role. Of course, Sherlock Holmes was a very
good amateur chemist, and occasionally used his knowledge of chemistry to solve
crime. There are plenty of stories with chemists portrayed as Mad
Scientists (e.g., Dr. Jekyll, Frankenstein, and a polymer chemist character
named Laszlo Jamf in Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow").
-- Robert Schmidt
The TV show MacGyver. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver
has some details and a link to a list of episodes. The show ran from my
junior year of college through the month I got my PhD!
-- Theodore
Dibble
Regards,
James R Madden
From: JRMadDog at aol.com
To: sfra-l at wiz.cath.vt.edu
Sent: 9/14/2011
4:00:49 P.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: Re: [SFRA-L] Positive visions of
Chemists?
I posted your request on the American Chemical Society's (ACS) Network
and have received the following so far:
"My favorite is a book called "Carver: A Life in Poems". It is all
in verse with really great pictures. Also try Djerassi and Hoffman's
play "Oxygen" Politics and science during the most turbulent time for
both.
"On a side note, I had read the Dragonriders of Pern books many times as a
kid but it wasn't until I was a college chem student that I realized what
"agenothree" was. Not sure I would want a flame thrower filled with it
any more but I am still hoping for a dragon of my own."
-- Kristen Eilts
Regards,
James R Madden
From: psharp at exchange.calstatela.edu
To: sfra-l at wiz.cath.vt.edu
Sent:
9/9/2011 11:53:21 A.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: [SFRA-L] Positive
visions of Chemists?
Hello hive mind-
I am working on a linked English
class with Chemistry and am wondering if anyone knows of some good stories
with heroic chemists or chemists as positive figures (fiction and
non-fiction)? I'm teaching Carson's Silent Spring, and would like to balance
that a bit with a more positive story or
two.
Best,
Patrick
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Dr.
Patrick B. Sharp, Professor and Chair
Department of Liberal Studies, CSU
Los Angeles
Treasurer, Science Fiction Research
Association
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