A Dozen Tough Jobs is a novella by Howard Waldrop which retells the Twelve Labors of Hercules in the Depression-era American South. It was a Nebula Award finalist.
Book Cover of A Dozen Tough Jobs by Howard Waldrop
Science fiction is the genre of speculative fiction that imagines advanced and futuristic changes in technology, scientific knowledge, or biological systems. The elements common to science fiction hav
A Dozen Tough Jobs
…A Dozen Tough Jobs Author Howard Waldrop Language English Genre Science fiction Publisher Mark V. Ziesing Publication date April 1989 Publication place United States Media type Print (Hardcover) Pages 135 ISBN 0-929480-02-3 OCLC…
Cover of Imagination, an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine (1952)
Alien invasion featured in the novel The War of the Worlds (1897) by H. G. Wells, illustrated by Henrique Alvim Corrêa in 1906
The August 1923 issue of Science and Invention — the "Scientific Fiction number" — was the first issue of a Gernsback-published magazine to have significant fiction content.
Amazing stories, Sept. 1928. Hugo Gernsback coined the term "Scientiction" in 1916.