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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Famous quotes containing the words golden age, golden and/or age:
“But if that Golden Age would come again,
And Charles here rule as he before did reign;”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“Ah, Sun-flower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun,
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller’s journey is done:
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow
Arise from their graves, and aspire
Where my Sun-flower wishes to go.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“The age of the book is almost gone.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)