I butchered the lyrics to Science Fiction, Double Feature. Mea Culpa.
I talked too much about E E “Doc” Smith’s Triplanetary and 1930s science fiction.
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A couple of bookends for E.E. “Doc” Smith’s timeline:
1930: Pluto discovered
1939: Robert A. Heinlein’s first published story, “Life-Line,” comes out.
You mentioned Burroughs – – his books were immensely popular, particularly the Tarzan books, and the Tarzan films starring Johnny Weissmuller began in 1932.
Thanks for the added context.
I probably spent too much time looking things up about that time frame this morning and found a lot of it fascinating.
But I think I need to find a different classic for July. 😀