The Skylark of Space is a science fiction novel by American writer Edward E. "Doc" Smith, written between 1915 and 1921 while Smith was working on his doctorate. Although the original idea for the nov
Dust-jacket from the first edition
The Skylark of Space, Amazing Stories (August 1928)
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
The Skylark of Space
…The Skylark of Space is a science fiction novel by American writer Edward E. "Doc" Smith, written between 1915 and 1921 while Smith was working on his doctorate. Although the original idea for…
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.