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1. I'm encouraged to hear that there are still markets for science fiction short stories. I wrote (and even published) some back in the 90s, but turned my attention to novel-length projects in the past 10-15 years. That hasn't worked well for me, and would love to get back into the short form, but I had assumed it wouldn't be worth it since I really would like to get published.

2. You know you can't trust anything this guy says when he claims Frankenstein's was the first science fiction story. Not when there are stories 200+ years older than this story that deal with sci-fi

3. Sir, here's a good question: I don't know how many sci-fi books you have read, own, don't know how many stories, scripts, stories for TV shows, movies, etc. This morning I was listening to the radio and there was a discussion about Mr Musks NeuraLink, and some implications. While listening, a term came to my mind concerning that project. This term I coined: "TelePsyonics" & "TeleMdia". My inquiry has to to do with, with all the stiries, movies, shows, etc, have you ran across or read it? Thank you 🤓

4. Definitely one of the best videos of its kind on YouTube! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, I learned a lot.

5. Excellent video, great context. I haven’t read many of the great works discussed here, but now I will! Asimov and Wells and every other sci-fi novelist owes a debt of gratitude. Thank you for your dedication to sci-fi!

6. Interesting that he conflates popularizing the push to space with Bradbury and spends so much time talking about Bradbury, implying that he broke SF into the slicks.
   
   Actually, of course, it was Heinlein who performed that function. It was Heinlein who broke into the 'slicks' (three long years before Bradbury). It was Heinlein who "raised" a generation of kids on realistic stories about going first to the planets and then to the stars. A new Heinlein book every Christmas! (Bradbury's stories are the opposite of realism.)
   
   There are things to be said for both writers, but my-oh-my this smells like historical revisionism to me.

7. Geez, take a breath. Great stuff, but I couldn't get past ten minutes without a truckload of xanax.

8. Didnt know Arthur C Clarke was gay

9. Love your channel so much I love sifi

10. Great, comprehensive video. Man am I jealous of some of your editions! I did wonder why you didn't mention Philip Wylie's 'Gladiator' and its influence on Superman and comic books in general.

11. Great talk on Sci Fi.

12. Wonderful amount of information, thank you for sharing!

13. You missed E.E. "Doc" Smith and H Beam Piper.

14. There's a YouTube video of the historic meeting and conversation between H.G. Wells and Orson Welles, after Orson did his infamous War of the Worlds radio adaptation.

15. Wow! that was amazing! More than an hour with no hesitation or deviation.

    I'm so happy I found your channel. I was beginning to lose hope that there was anything substantial on youtube about the history of sci-fi writing. Then BOOM!! A vintage book avalanche from Mr. Sci-Fi. Fantastic!

16. I tried to pigeon hole Frankenstein as SF at university, but my teacher's wouldn't have it: Frankenstein was Gothic!

17. I can't tell you how much I appreciate this!

18. Wonderful to watch and learn so much from you about these books! Thank you! I am inside scifi reading the last 5 years and it gets deeper and deeper. It is a window for the mind. Sci fi literature can show you not only future worlds but also to drive you inside sociology, ecology and politics. My favorites until now is Ursula K Le Guin, Frank Herbert but also I stuck with the book "Voyage to Arcturus" by David Lindsay (strange but powerful with its way). Now I am preparing for Asimov and Aldiss. Thank you for all the great information!

19. The first pure fantasy novel is the Bible.

20. Fiction? What about "Reality imitating Art"?

21. Mr. Sci-Fi, I am growing deeply concerned that the author, Doc E E Smith, has been completely forgotten.
    Is the man and his work, some how, banned or blocked… is there some strange copyright thing or what?
    I have poured over his works again and again and have concluded that HE is The Godfather of many Sci-Fi staples. The Lens (the Force). The Hyperspacial Tube (The Stargate). Inertialess Drive (Warp Speed). The Galactic Patrol (The Federation of Planets). There are millions of moments in his work that are one to one comparisons to millions of SF and Super-hero ideas long before they saw print. The Lensmen had x-ray vision before Superman did, had a Red Lensmen before the Green Lantern existed, and had “…a strong influence of the weak minded,” before Obi-wan.

22. Great ! Thanks ! This was more or less exactly what I was looking för.