Here is a link to the
McFarland description
of the book, with a link to the Table of Contents and, in the future, excerpts
from the book.
On
January 6, 2008, radio station WICN broadcast my interview with Mark Lynch
about this book, which you can listen to here.
This
book appeared on Locus magazine's 2007
Recommended
Reading List, so you can vote for it as the Best Nonfiction book of 2007
here.
If you would like more information about Hugo
Gernsback: most of my publications involving Hugo Gernsback are not available
online, having been incorporated either into this book or into The Mechanics
of Wonder: The Creation of the Idea of Science Fiction. However, here are a
few relevant items:
"Superladies in Waiting,"
posted elsewhere on this website, which includes some discussion of Gernsback
and was originally going to be included in Hugo Gernsback and the Century of
Science Fiction.
"Technocracy and
Plutocracy," a previously unpublished conference paper which,
among other things, focuses on Gernsback's magazine Technocracy Review.
"Evolution
through Intelligent Design," my review of Mike Ashley and
Robert A. W. Lowndes's The Gernsback Days: A Study of the Evolution of
Modern Science Fiction, 1911-1936.
An essay by Hugo Gernsback himself,
"How to Write
`Science' Stories," which I edited to appear in Science
Fiction Studies.
