The Creation of Tomorrow: Fifty Years of Magazine Science Fiction

by Paul A. Carter

Traces the historical development and examines the social consciousness and limitations of the genre, using familiar science-fiction stories to explore such themes as the atomic bomb, the failure of human evolution, and man against machine

318 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1977

About the author

Both a specialist in American social history and an author of science fiction stories, Paul Allen Carter was professor emeritus in history at the University of Arizona.