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Alchemist, v. 1, issue 4, December 1940
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ALCHEMIST 40 thought-variant in recent years--that was Murray Leinster's SIDEWISE IN TIME. It opened an entirely new field of conjecture in which other stories could follow without plagiarising the pioneer plot. As proof, THE WORLDS OF IF and BRANCHES OF TIME are the second and third stories of that new hitherto untouched field. And stf could stand many more as the new road is still hardly touched. Pioneer stories that were true thought-variants were such as WAR OF THE WORLDS (first of war between planets), THE TIME MACHINE (first time-travel), UTOPIA (first Utopian novel), THE LAND IRON-CLADS (first to envision tank-warfare), IN THE ABYSS (first of undersea-man stories), THE STAR (first of earth-destruction-from-space stories), THE NEW ACCELERATOR (first of its type), THE WAR IN THE AIR (first of aerial-warfare stories), THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM (first of microcosmic travel), THE MAN FROM THE ATOM (first of microcosmic travel). As is to be noticed H. G. Wells has an astonishing number of such stories to his credit. In many ways he was and is the greatest science-fiction writer of all times. We wonder what will be the next true thought-variant idea discovered? (Note:--While it may be possible that some of the stories listed were not actually the first of their type, their predecessors never made much of a splash and (like the pro-Columbian discovers of America) were promptly lost in the limbo of forgotten things.---DAW) ((We think Don has forgotten the Father of Imaginative Fiction, Jules Verne. As far as we can remember, it was he who first made the "splash" of interplanetary travel. (Earth to the Moon, etc.) We believe it was also him that started the inner-world theme that many others popularize upon today)
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ALCHEMIST 40 thought-variant in recent years--that was Murray Leinster's SIDEWISE IN TIME. It opened an entirely new field of conjecture in which other stories could follow without plagiarising the pioneer plot. As proof, THE WORLDS OF IF and BRANCHES OF TIME are the second and third stories of that new hitherto untouched field. And stf could stand many more as the new road is still hardly touched. Pioneer stories that were true thought-variants were such as WAR OF THE WORLDS (first of war between planets), THE TIME MACHINE (first time-travel), UTOPIA (first Utopian novel), THE LAND IRON-CLADS (first to envision tank-warfare), IN THE ABYSS (first of undersea-man stories), THE STAR (first of earth-destruction-from-space stories), THE NEW ACCELERATOR (first of its type), THE WAR IN THE AIR (first of aerial-warfare stories), THE GIRL IN THE GOLDEN ATOM (first of microcosmic travel), THE MAN FROM THE ATOM (first of microcosmic travel). As is to be noticed H. G. Wells has an astonishing number of such stories to his credit. In many ways he was and is the greatest science-fiction writer of all times. We wonder what will be the next true thought-variant idea discovered? (Note:--While it may be possible that some of the stories listed were not actually the first of their type, their predecessors never made much of a splash and (like the pro-Columbian discovers of America) were promptly lost in the limbo of forgotten things.---DAW) ((We think Don has forgotten the Father of Imaginative Fiction, Jules Verne. As far as we can remember, it was he who first made the "splash" of interplanetary travel. (Earth to the Moon, etc.) We believe it was also him that started the inner-world theme that many others popularize upon today)
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