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Clement Fezandié is among the lostest of lost names in SF, and his fall is perhaps the hardest of any. At one time he was Hugo Gernsback's favorite author. In the early 1920s SF did not yet exist as a field, and certainly not as a genre magazine style. Scattered stories that today we would tag as SF appeared in a variety of pulp fiction magazines, and even on rare occasion in one of the slick magazines. Aficionados - you could hardly call them fans, which implies organization - had to hunt the newsstands and hope and guess their way to a find, based on a familiar name or an intriguing title or a line about a coming attraction. The champion of this sort of story, the ideas of and extrapolations to modern science, mixed with a soupçon of fictional sweetness to make it go down easier, was Hugo Gernsback. He latched onto the newborn field of radio, started the Wireless Association of America, and churned out magazines devoted to radio and all things electronic starting in 1908 with Modern

--> A JOURNEY TO THE YEAR 2025 | flying-cars top of page A JOURNEY TO THE YEAR 2025 Introduction Clement Fezandié is among the lostest of lost names in SF, and his fall is perhaps the hardest of any. At one time he was Hugo Gernsback's favorite author. In the early 1920s SF did not yet exist as a field, and certainly not as a genre magazine style. Scattered stories that today we would tag as SF appeared in a variety of pulp fiction magazines, and even on rare occasion in one of the slick magazines. Aficionados - you could hardly call them fans, which implies organization - had to hunt the news

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