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Why is the 1920-1960 era of cheap, melodramatic pulp magazines called the "Golden Age" of science fiction when all the actual literary sci-fi worth reading was written in the 1800's or earlier?

>> No.20506012

because mfers are brainlets

it's like boomers saying dadrock is classic because it's what they grew up with it despite it being mainstream pap

>> No.20506159

>>20506012
Fpbp

>> No.20506198

>>20506012
fpbp

>> No.20506542

>>20506012
fpbp

>> No.20506548

>>20506012
>classic \= mainstream pap
I’m sorry? What are you under the impression a classic is? It’s just something people liked a long time ago

>> No.20506562

Good question. Most everything after was just extrapolation. Of course, there is also the argument that the golden age of science fiction is 12 to 15.

>> No.20507796

>>20505991
Because all of Jules Verne's stories are in the public domain so publishers can't make as much off of them.

>> No.20507853

>>20506562
the golden age of science fiction begins when I started writing this post and ends when I hit the post button.
Truly an age, I predicted that nothing of interest would happen within this short time, and I was correct.

>> No.20507867

>>20505991
Iain M. Banks was 1800s?

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>>20505991
>Why is the 1920-1960 era of cheap, melodramatic pulp magazines called the "Golden Age" of science fiction
Because it's extremely /comfy/

>> No.20508166

>>20505991
To sell magazines.

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20508176

I just like Philip K Dick

>> No.20508179

Conflating pulp age with golden age. Wells is excellent, Verne awful, Poe not so good, Stevenson good to excellent. Blackwood, Doyle and Burroughs had them beat in the pulp age. Golden age scifi is boring but important for making advancements in satanic entrapment of young men's souls. Thank you Dwight Eisenhower for doubling down on good old fashioned American satanism.

>> No.20508439

>>20508179
Verne is better than Poe and Burroughs is basically capeshit trash.

>> No.20508587

>>20505991
>Why are trashy stories written and published by jews and pedophiles given more esteem than those written by white men?

>> No.20508721
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20508721

Only good sci-fi author is Stanislaw Lem, maybe Robert L. Forward too. The rest can suck my tiny balls.

>> No.20508723

>>20508721
>Stanislaw Lem
Commie faggot.

>> No.20508736

>>20508723
He was against communism and many of the stories he wrote show that quite clearly, you poofter.

>> No.20508751

>>20508736
He was a wormy little atheist pinko faggot. Phillip K. Dick was right.

>> No.20508770

>>20508751
>>20508723
triggered /pol/flakes should get the rope.
OT: Verne is probably the comfiest of sci-fi but writers like Holberg, Bergerac and Lasswitz are peak early sci-fi as well.