The Golden Age
See also: Golden Age of Science FictionThe period of the 1940s and 1950s is often referred to as the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
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“We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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