From Mike Colagrossi at bigthink.com.
The early 20th century saw explosive growth for the science fiction genre.
A wide range of these books would go on to become classics.
These great works explore the strange, zany and absurd profundities of our existence.
The first Golden Age of Science Fiction was officially considered to be from 1938 to 1946. As a whole and how most readers view it — the era extended into the early- to mid-1960s. From Jules Verne to earlier proto-science fiction works, the genre has gained more prominence and significance as the years go by. Preceded over by the "big three," Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein, this unique Golden Age era produced some of the greatest works of literary art in the past century
