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PROMINENT GOLDEN AGE AUTHORS Many fans of the '40s and '50s would have named A. E. Van Vogt , Robert A. Heinlein , and Isaac Asimov as the three greatest science fiction writers. Beginning in the late 1930 s, a number of highly influential science fiction authors began to emerge, including:
FROM GERNSBACK TO CAMPBELL One leading influence on the creation of the Golden age was and Isaac Asimov is widely considered to be the start of the Golden Age of science fiction. CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE As a phenomenon that affected the psyches of a great many adolescents during World War II and the ensuing Cold War , science fiction's Golden Age has left a lasting impression upon society. The genre, particularly during its Golden Age, had significant, if somewhat indirect, effects upon leaders in the Military , Information Technology , Hollywood and science itself, especially Biotechnology and the Pharmaceutical industry. The impression of many parents at the time, however, was often tinged with dismay and intolerance, sometimes sparked by the racy cover illustrations of pulp science fiction. The stereotypical cover of a science fiction pulp magazine depicted a brass-bikini-clad woman at the mercy of a bug-eyed monster. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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