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To-day And To-morrow
''To-day and To-morrow'' (sometimes written ''Today and Tomorrow'') was a series of over 150 speculative essays published as short books by the London publishers Kegan Paul between 1923 and 1931 (and published in the United States by E. P. Dutton, New York). As Fredric Warburg proudly recalled in 1959: Content and reception The series was one of several series initiated at Kegan Paul by C. K. Ogden. The first essay to appear, in November 1923, was J. B. S. Haldane's '' Daedalus; or, Science and the Future'', an extended version of a lecture to the Heretics Society at Cambridge University on 4 February 1923. In 1926 Evelyn Waugh offered to provide a book in the series to be called ''Noah; or the Future of Intoxication''. Though completed in 1927, Waugh's manuscript was rejected for the series and never appeared. Influence on fiction Brian Stableford noted that the ''To-day and To-morrow'' series provided "an important stimulus to the discussion of future possibilities among the B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kegan Paul
Charles Kegan Paul (8 March 1828 – 19 July 1902) was an English clergyman, publisher and author. He began his adult life as a clergyman of the Church of England, and served the Church for more than 20 years. His religious orientation moved from the orthodoxy of the Church of England to first Agnosticism, then Positivism, and finally Roman Catholicism. Early life Paul was born on 8 March 1828 at Whitelackington, Somerset, the eldest of ten children of the Rev. Charles Paul (18021861) and Frances Kegan Horne (18021848) of Bath, Somerset. He was educated at Eton College where he entered Dr Hawtrey's house in 1841, at 13 years of age. Paul matriculated on 29 January 1846 at age 17 and entered Exeter College, Oxford. He received his B.A. degree three years later, in 1849. Life in Holy Orders Paul was ordained deacon in Lent of 1851, and served as curate at Great Tew, in the Oxford Dioceses for 18511852. He was ordained a priest in 1852, and served as curate of Bloxham, near Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publications Established In 1923
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John Gloag
John Gloag (10 August 1896 - 17 July 1981) was an English writer in the fields of furniture design and architecture. Gloag also wrote science fiction novels. Gloag served with the Welsh Guards during the First World War, and was invalided home after suffering gas poisoning. Writings on design ''Artifex, or the Future of Craftsmanship'' (1926), part of the To-day and To-morrow series, was a pamphlet by Gloag that discussed the relationship between artistic craftmanship and mass production. Gloag's ''A Short Dictionary of Furniture'' (1969) was a reference book covering the history and types of furniture from the tenth century to the 1960s. Novels Gloag's first science fiction novel, ''Tomorrow's Yesterday'', (1932) was inspired by the work of H.G. Wells and Gloag's friend Olaf Stapledon. ''Tomorrow's Yesterday'' is a satire that depicts a race of cat people from the distant future observing human society. In ''The New Pleasure'' (1933) a powder that greatly increases th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer. He was best known for ''A Scots Quair'', a trilogy set in the north-east of Scotland in the early 20th century, of which all three parts have been serialised on BBC television. Biography Born in Auchterless and raised from the age of seven in Arbuthnott, in the former county of Kincardineshire, Mitchell started working as a journalist for the '' Aberdeen Journal'' in 1917 and later for the ''Farmers Weekly'' after moving to Glasgow. Gibbon grew up in Stonehaven, and attended Mackie Academy. During that time he was active with the British Socialist Party. In 1919, Mitchell joined the Royal Army Service Corps and served in Iran, India and Egypt before enlisting in the Royal Air Force in 1920. In the RAF he worked as a clerk and spent some time in the Middle East. When he married Rebecca Middleton (known as Ray) in 1925, they settled in Welwyn Garden City. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Heard
Henry FitzGerald Heard (6 October 1889 – 14 August 1971), commonly called Gerald Heard, was a British-born American historian, science writer, public lecturer, educator, and philosopher. He wrote many articles and over 35 books. Heard was a guide and mentor to numerous well-known people in the 1950s and 1960s, including author Aldous Huxley, Henry Luce, Clare Boothe Luce, and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. His work was a forerunner of, and influence on, the consciousness development movement that has spread in the Western world since the 1960s. Early life The son of an Anglo-Irish clergyman, Heard was born in London. He grew to be an earnest, disciplined, resolute young man. Heard studied history and theology at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating with honours in history. After working in other roles, he lectured from 1926 to 1929 for Oxford University's extramural studies programme. Heard took a strong interest in developments in the scienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muriel Jaeger
Muriel Jaeger (23 May 1892 – 21 November 1969) was a British author who wrote early novels of science fiction as well as plays and non-fiction. Early life and education Jaeger was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire in 1892, the daughter of John Edward Jagger, an accountant, and was educated at Sheffield, and won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, Oxford, in 1912. Jaeger attended Somerville College, Oxford from 1912 to 1916 and graduated with second-class honours in 1916. At Oxford, Jaeger belonged to a society of women writers that included Winifred Holtby and her close friend Dorothy L. Sayers. Her nickname in college was James, or Jim, or even Jimmy: her friend Dorothy L. Sayers would address her in all three ways. After graduation in 1916, Jaeger did war work at the Statistics department at the Ministry of Food. Writing career In 1920, Jaeger began writing for ''Time and Tide'', a feminist journal, and ''Vogue'' before setting out on an independent writing career. Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winifred Holtby
Winifred Holtby (23 June 1898 – 29 September 1935) was an English novelist and journalist, now best known for her novel '' South Riding'', which was posthumously published in 1936. Biography Holtby was born to a prosperous farming family in the village of Rudston, East Riding of Yorkshire. Her father was David Holtby and her mother, Alice, was afterwards the first alderwoman on the East Riding County Council. Holtby was educated at home by a governess and then at Queen Margaret's School in Scarborough. Although she passed the entrance exam for Somerville College, Oxford, in 1917, she chose to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in early 1918 but soon after she arrived in France, the First World War came to an end and she returned home. During this period, Holtby met Harry Pearson, the only man who stimulated romantic feelings in her, due primarily to his tales of the suffering soldiers endured during the war. In 1919, she returned to study at the University of Oxf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Critical Guide To Science Fiction
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredric Warburg
Fredric John Warburg (27 November 1898 – 25 May 1981) was a British publisher best known for his association with the author George Orwell. During a career spanning a large part of the 20th century and ending in 1971, Warburg published Orwell's major books ''Animal Farm'' (1945) and ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (1949), as well as works by other leading figures such as Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka. Other notable publications included '' The Third Eye'' by Lobsang Rampa, Pierre Boulle's ''The Bridge over the River Kwai'', Adolf Hitler's '' Mein Kampf'' and William Shirer's ''The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich''. Warburg is an important figure in the history and study of Cold War propaganda due to his work with Orwell's widow Sonia Orwell in a collaboration with the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret propaganda wing of the British Foreign Office, which helped to increase the fame of ''Animal Farm'' and ''Nineteen Eighty-Four''. With Warburg's support, the IRD was ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Barron
Richard Neil Barron (23 March 1934 - 5 September 2010) was a science fiction bibliographer and scholar. His training was as a librarian. He is perhaps best known for his book '' Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction''. He won the Pilgrim Award for Lifetime Achievement in the field of science fiction scholarship in 1982. He died on September 5, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Bibliography * '' Anatomy of Wonder: A Critical Guide to Science Fiction'' (5th ed.). Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 2004. . * ''Fantasy and Horror''. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1999. . * ''Fantasy Literature''. Garland, 1990. . * ''Horror Literature''. Garland, 1990. . * ''Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review: The Complete Series, 1979-1980''. Borgo Press, 2009. . (with Robert Reginald) * ''What Do I Read Next?: A Reader's Guide to Current Genre Fiction''. Detroit; Washington, DC; London: Gale Research Inc., 2006. . Notes References * Clute, John and Grant, John. ''The Encyclop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaf Stapledon
William Olaf Stapledon (10 May 1886 – 6 September 1950) – known as Olaf Stapledon – was a British philosopher and author of science fiction.Andy Sawyer, " illiamOlaf Stapledon (1886-1950)", in Bould, Mark, et al, eds. ''Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction''. New York: Routledge, 2010. (pp. 205–210) .John Kinnaird, "Stapledon,(William) Olaf" in Curtis C. Smith, ''Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers''. Chicago, St. James, 1986. (pp. 693–6). In 2014, he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. Life Stapledon was born in Seacombe, Wallasey, on the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, the only son of William Clibbett Stapledon and Emmeline Miller. The first six years of his life were spent with his parents at Port Said, Egypt. He was educated at Abbotsholme School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he acquired a BA degree in Modern History (Second Class) in 1909, promoted to an MA degree in 1913. After a brief stint as a teacher at Manchester G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
