Imagining Science and Science Fiction in Interwar America
by
John Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
When physicist Robert Goddard, whose career was inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds, published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes," the response was electric. Newspaper headlines across the country announced, "Modern Jules Verne Invents Rocket to Reach Moon," while...