1.7 (Famous Contributors)

Question 1

Hugo Gernsback

Answer 1

• Editor of Amazing Stories
• popularizes gadgetry and futurism and science fiction ideas in the Golden Age
• he created Science Fiction (forerunner: scientifiction)
• Helps create Space Opera

Question 2

Asimov and Heinlein

Answer 2

Big time Golden Age writers
who popularized stories about the future

Question 3

John W. Campbell, Jr

Answer 3

• Editor of Astounding Science Fiction magazine.
• He steered the direction of the genre as a whole by curating future stars of the genre such as Asimov, Heinlein, A. E. Vogt

Question 4

E.E. Smith

Answer 4

Wrote The Skylark of Space which starts the subgenre of space opera.

Question 5

Damian Broderick

Answer 5

Fosters concept of the megatext and develops it