John W. Campbell, a chief architect of science fiction's Golden Age

Re:John W. Campbell, a chief architect of science fiction's ... by maxerickson on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @09:09AM (#18493859)

For the present it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. Is it not astonishing that, while we are plowing, planting, and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver, and gold; that while we are reading, writing, and ciphering, acting as clerks, merchants, and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators, and teachers; that we are engaged in all the enterprises common to other men -- digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hillside, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives, and children, and above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave -- we are called upon to prove that we are men?

Frederick Douglass, 1852

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/douglass.htm

(I don't know his works well, I just searched and read...1 of them)

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Re:John W. Campbell, a chief architect of science fiction's ... by imglorp on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @09:12AM (#18493873)

Oh yes, others had the visions earlier, but my point was that it wasn't a mainstream viewpoint until much later.

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Re:John W. Campbell, a chief architect of science fiction's ... by ska on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @12:55PM (#18495891)

It's pretty hard to argue that selective enforcement of contemporary mainstream views is necessary to speculative fiction. The hint is right there in the name.

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