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From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, not a few mystery writers who were influenced by the Golden Age style made their debut one after another in Japan. They are referred to as "new traditionalists" (新本格ミステリ作家, shin honkaku misuteri sakka, lit. new orthodox mystery writers) or "new orthodox school" (新本格派, shin ...
Pages in category "Writers of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction" The following 139 pages are in this category, out of 139 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Many of the most enduring science fiction tropes were established in Golden Age literature. Space opera came to prominence with the works of E. E. "Doc" Smith; Isaac Asimov established the canonical Three Laws of Robotics beginning with the 1941 short story "Runaround"; the same period saw the writing of genre classics such as the Asimov's Foundation and Smith's Lensman series.
The interwar period (the 1920s and 1930s) is generally referred to as the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. [38] During this period, a number of very popular writers emerged, including mostly British but also a notable subset of American and New Zealand writers. Female writers constituted a major portion of notable Golden Age writers.
Ngaio Marsh, a major figure in detective writing, only joined later in life. [6] Subsequent members of the Club included Andrew Garve, H. R. F. Keating and John Bingham. Martin Edwards charted the early history of the Club in his 2015 book The Golden Age of Murder.
Meet the members of Generation H, a diverse coalition of authors reimagining the once pale and male genre.
John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor. He was editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact) from late 1937 until his death and was part of the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
The hardboiled phenomenon appeared slightly earlier than the Golden Age of Science Fiction. "Apparently something just before the War [World War II] acted to create pulp writers who were willing to break out of the post-World War I shell of neverland cliches, which persisted in the pulps until the middle of the 1930s", Algis Budrys said in 1965 ...