Today, we look at the year that gave us works by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Hugo Gernsback — does 1912 deserve to be crowned the Best Year of Science Fiction Ever?
Thanks for the shout-out! Yes, Annalee has it exactly right. We don't want eBay to kick our project off its servers because we're making "false claims" about the objects for sale. Naturally we'd rather not have the disclaimer there, because — for those who get that they're being hoaxed, and enjoy being hoaxed — the…
@oldandintheway: Thanks lazyeight — my expertise is in PGA SF, not GA. But I could have done a better job fact-checking the GA stuff. I just wanted to share that bad-ass cover, was the impetus.
@Dimbo_Sama: Purple Cloud is way better than most of the books on the list, you're right. But because I've written about it an earlier post for this series, as I mention, I decided to leave it off. (Last and First Men, Poison Belt, others — same deal.)
@Brett Holman: Ha! I keep doing that. Better fix it. Thanks so much.
@ZanipoloLebron: How is that an eco-disaster?
@neophil13: Thanks for the tip! I have two French and a German SF stories on my Top Ten list, so I am interested... as long as they've been translated.
@Tom Nealon: There is one and only one Pre-Golden-Age SF story in which garbage — though not pollution, in the sense of carbon emissions — causes an eco-catastrophe. It's Fred M. White's "The Dust of Death," published in April 1903. Here it is.
