Comments on: Science Fiction’s two dads, H.G. Wells’ two children http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/2009/12/h-g-wells-father-of-miniature-war-games/ A blog that's ≥ the best of you. Sat, 12 May 2012 10:28:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Alan Trotter http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/2009/12/h-g-wells-father-of-miniature-war-games/comment-page-1/#comment-3024 Alan Trotter Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:34:16 +0000 http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/?p=993#comment-3024 It's a fair point, but you're right about how much Poe's got going for him – maybe we should just leave this one little thing for Wells and Verne. It's only one genre, he's got so many others to call his own. It’s a fair point, but you’re right about how much Poe’s got going for him – maybe we should just leave this one little thing for Wells and Verne. It’s only one genre, he’s got so many others to call his own.

]]> By: Colbie http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/2009/12/h-g-wells-father-of-miniature-war-games/comment-page-1/#comment-3018 Colbie Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:48:39 +0000 http://greaterthanorequalto.net/blog/?p=993#comment-3018 According to the late Thomas Disch, no mean writer of SF, in his book The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of, the REAL daddy of science fiction is Edgar Allan Poe. If you add that to his other invention: detective fiction; and his rather significant contributions to the horror, Gothic, and ghost story canons, you might as well admit he invented ALL genre fiction (except the sappy kinds for girls). What a geek! According to the late Thomas Disch, no mean writer of SF, in his book The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of, the REAL daddy of science fiction is Edgar Allan Poe.

If you add that to his other invention: detective fiction; and his rather significant contributions to the horror, Gothic, and ghost story canons, you might as well admit he invented ALL genre fiction (except the sappy kinds for girls).

What a geek!

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