Cory Panshin
9 Quotations from Cory Panshin
| Campbellish adj. | 1989 Universal Principles of Operation from ‘World Beyond the Hill’ in N.Y. Review of Science Fiction Aug. 6/1 Campbell and Hamilton had been fellow members of a New York area SF writers circle. After he became editor, Campbell asked most of the writers he knew, including Hamilton, to contribute stories to his magazine. And Hamilton was glad to dash one off for him. But then Campbell did the Campbellish thing. He pointed out flaws in the story and asked for a rewrite. Ed Hamilton was an old pro accustomed to turning out first-draft copy, to repeating his plots, and to selling everything that he wrote. So he was quite taken aback by this request. He fixed the story, but he didn’t send any more to Campbell. |
| fix-up n. | 1989 World beyond Hill 470 That this indeed was the point implicit for van Vogt in ‘Black Destroyer’ and ‘Discord in Scarlet’ would be confirmed in 1950 when he put these stories together with two others and added new material to make what he would call a ‘‘fix-up’ novel’—The Voyage of the Space Beagle. |
| future war n. | 1989 World beyond Hill 84 Lost race stories…future war stories…dime novel invention stories…tales of advanced science-beyond-science… As soon as science fiction began to exist, it did so in a multitude of forms. |
| Gernsbackian adj. | 1972 Domestication of the Future in Fantastic Dec. 94/1 Short stories ceased to be Gernsbackian and became (for them) more imaginative—space opera. Some few stories of alien exploration did continue to be written, but they became more and more tenuous, more and more private, sillier and sillier. |
| proto-science fiction n. | 1989 World beyond Hill 71 They might be thought of both as epitomes of Romantic proto-SF and as first examples of the new science fiction literature of the Age of Technology. |
| proto-science fiction n. | 1989 World beyond Hill 76 There is one Romantic document that is sometimes offered as a proto-SF story with a setting in the Future—Edgar Allan Poe’s sketch ‘Mellonta Tauta’ (1849). |
| pulp science fiction n. | 1989 World beyond Hill 143 With utopian plausibility denied to it, this American pulp SF of the Teens became highly imaginative. |
| science fiction n. 2 | 1976 SF in Dimension 307 Crude, vigorous and imaginative magazine stories from one of the star writers of Thirties pulp science fiction. |
| superscientific adj. | 1974 SF: New Trends and Old in R. Bretnor SF, Today & Tomorrow 230 Magic has subtleties that super-scientific power or even psi power do not have. |