abstract:The first Golden Age of Science Fiction—often recognized as the period from 1938 to 1946Nicholls, Peter (1981) The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Granada, p. 258—was an era during which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic science fiction stories were published.
Itwas 1977, and I had just had mymind blown clean out of my skull by a newmoviecalled Star Wars (thegolden ageofsciencefictionistwelve; thegoldenageof cinematicscience fiction is six).
There my own GoldenAgeofScienceFiction came, in some sense, to an end, the othernesses of my adolescence joining up with the wider tributary of literature, the mother of all otherness.