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The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction(Electronic Mediations)

The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction(Electronic Mediations)


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About the Book

Grant Wythoffpresents a wide array of texts by famed writer, publisher, and inventor HugoGernsback that were foundational both for science fiction and emerging mediastudies. Through painstaking research and extensive annotations and commentary,Wythoff aims to reverse the widespread misunderstanding of Gernsback within thehistory of science fiction criticism, reintroducing us to Gernsback and theorigins of science fiction.

Table of Contents:
Thematic Contents Preface: How to Use This Book Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Tinkering A New Interrupter (1905) The Dynamophone (1908) The Born and the Mechanical Inventor (1911) The Radioson Detector (1914) What to Invent (1916) The Perversity of Things (1916) Thomas A. Edison Speaks to You (1919) Human Progress (1922) Results of the $500.00 Prize Contest: Who Will Save the Radio Amateur? (1923) The Isolator (1925) The Detectorium (1926) New Radio "Things" Wanted (1927) Part II. History and Theory of Media The Aerophone Number (1908) Why “Radio Amateur News” is Here (1919) Science and Invention (1920) Learn and Work While You Sleep (1921) The “New” Science and Invention (1923) Are We Intelligent? (1923) Part III. Broadcast Regulation The Wireless Joker (1908) The Wireless Association of America (1909) The Roberts Wireless Bill (1910) The Alexander Wireless Bill (1912) Wireless and the Amateur: A Retrospect (1913) The Future of Radio (1919) Sayville (1915) War and the Radio Amateur (1917) Silencing America's Wireless (1917) Amateur Radio Restored (1919) Wired Versus Space Radio (1927) Part IV. Wireless [Editorials] (1909) From The Wireless Telephone (1911) A Treatise on Wireless Telegraphy (1913) The Future of Wireless (1916) From Radio for All (1922) Radio Broadcasting (1922) Is Radio at a Standstill? (1926) Edison and Radio (1926) Why the Radio Set Builder (1927) Radio Enters a New Phase (1927) The Short-Wave Era (1928) Part V. Television Television and the Telephot (1909) A Radio-Controlled Television Plane (1924) After Television---What? (1927) Television Technique (1931) Part VI. Sound Hearing Through Your Teeth (1916) Grand Opera by Wireless (1919) The Physiophone: Music for the Deaf (1920) The “Pianorad” (1926) Part VII. Scientifiction Signaling to Mars (1909) Our Cover (1913) Phoney Patent Offizz: Bookworm's Nurse (1915) Imagination Versus Fact (1916) Interplanetarian Wireless (1920) An American Jules Verne (1920) 10,000 Years Hence (1922) Predicting Future Inventions (1923) The Dark Age of Science (1925) A New Sort of Magazine (1926) The Lure of Scientifiction (1926) Fiction Versus Facts (1926) Editorially Speaking (1926) Imagination and Reality (1926) How to Write “Science” Stories (1930) Science Fiction vs. Science Faction (1930) Wonders of the Machine Age (1931) Reasonableness in Science Fiction (1932) Part VIII. Selected Fiction Ralph 124C 41+, part 3 (1911) The Scientific Adventures of Baron MÜnchhausen, part 5: “MÜnchhausen Departs for the Planet Mars” (1915) The Magnetic Storm (1918) The Electric Duel (1927) The Killing Flash (1929) Notes Index {~?~ST: end chapter} {~?~ST: begin chapter} Chronological Contents Preface: How to Use This Book Acknowledgments Introduction A New Interrupter (1905) The Dynamophone (1908) The Aerophone Number (1908) The Wireless Joker (1908) The Wireless Association of America (1909) [Editorials] (1909) Signaling to Mars (1909) Television and the Telephot (1909) The Roberts Wireless Bill (1910) From The Wireless Telephone (1911) The Born and the Mechanical Inventor (1911) Ralph 124C 41+, part 3 (1911) The Alexander Wireless Bill (1912) Wireless and the Amateur: A Retrospect (1913) Our Cover (1913) A Treatise on Wir

About the Author :
Hugo Gernsback (18841967) was a Luxembourgish- American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher who founded the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, in 1926. The annual Hugo Awards for the best works of science fiction and fantasy are named in his honor. Grant Wythoff is a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities and a lecturer in the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia University.

Review :
"Grant Wythoff's splendid work of scholarship dispels the dank, historic mists of a literary subculture with starkly factual archival research. An amazing vista of electronic media struggle is revealed here, every bit as colorful and cranky as Hugo Gernsback's pulp magazines-even the illustrations and footnotes are fascinating. I'm truly grateful for this work and will never think of American science fiction in the same way again."-Bruce Sterling, author, journalist, and critic "Hugo Gernsback was one of the strangest and most weirdly influential minds of the twentieth century, and his story has never before been fully told. Grant Wythoff’s The Perversity of Things is brilliant and beautiful-indispensible for anyone who wants to understand the collision of technology and culture in which science fiction was born."-James Gleick, author of Time Travel "Each page is a small feast for the intellect."-Paul Levinson’s Infinite Regress "The quality of Wythoff's editorial work is outstanding, and it is well served by the clever typographical presentation of the book, pleasant to read, well indexed, and nicely illustrated. Thanks to this work, it should be possible to reframe the figure of Gernsback."-Leonardo Reviews "Wythoff's indispensable account of Gernsback's understanding of the power of media is remarkable in many ways and is expected to reset people's understanding of SF. Wythoff uses examples of Gernsback's writing – fiction stories, essays, articles, editorials…even the inventor's own blueprints – to show how a tinkerer launched a new era in written science fiction."-Kirkus Reviews "If I have one complaint about The Perversity of Things, it is that I did not want it to end-or, at least, I wanted more. Wythoff invites his audience members to become engaged critical readers who contribute to the development of science fiction and media history through our own intellectual tinkering and innovation. I cannot help but think that Gernsback would be proud. Highly recommended."-Science Fiction Studies


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781517900854
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 444
  • Spine Width: 51 mm
  • Width: 216 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1517900859
  • Publisher Date: 21 Nov 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Electronic Mediations
  • Sub Title: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientifiction


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