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   Golden Age of Science Fiction

   The first Golden Age of Science Fiction, often recognized as a period from the late 1930s or early 1940s through to the 1950s, was an era during which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic science fiction stories were published.
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   History of science fiction

   The period of the 1940s and 1950s is often referred to as the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
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   John W. Campbell

   In that role he is generally credited with helping to create the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction, which is often held to have started with the July 1939 issue of Astounding.
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   A. E. van Vogt

   It was the cover story of this issue of Astounding, the issue often described as having ushered in the Golden Age of science fiction.
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   Science fiction

   Campbell's tenure at Astounding is considered to be the beginning of the Golden Age of science fiction, characterized by hard SF stories celebrating scientific achievement and progress.
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   Analog Science Fiction and Fact

   The period of Campbell's editorship between the late 1930s and late 1940s is often referred to as "the golden age of Astounding", or even the "Golden Age of Science Fiction".
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   Homosexuality in speculative fiction

   In the Golden Age of Science Fiction, the genre "resolutely ignored the whole subject" of homosexuality, according to Joanna Russ.
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   Science fiction on television

   Science fiction first appeared on television during the golden age of science fiction.
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   Sex and sexuality in science fiction

   Sturgeon, who wrote many stories during the Golden Age of Science Fiction that emphasised the importance of love, regardless of the current social norms such as in The World Well Lost, a classic tale involving alien homosexuality, and Venus Plus X, in which a contemporary man awakens in a futuristic place where the people are hermaphrodites.
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    Science fiction genre

    Golden Age of Science Fiction - a period of the 1940s during which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic science fiction stories were published

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