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The aviator's (re)vision of the world : an aesthetics of ascension in Norman Bel Geddes's Futurama
… industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes for the 1939 New York World's Fair. The Futurama's status as the cause celebre of the 1939 World's Fair derived largely from its theatrical technique of seeing: spectators literally gazed down upon an American utopia as if they were aviators in a low-flying …
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"We Weren't Kidding": Prediction as Ideology in American Pulp Science Fiction, 1938-1949
In 1971, Isaac Asimov observed in humanity, a science-important society. For this he credited the man who had been his editor in the 1940s during the period known as the golden age of American science fiction, John W. Campbell, Jr. Campbell was editor of Astounding Science-Fiction, the magazine …