From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15208 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, December 13 2024 Volume 14 : Number 15208 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Answer a few questions about Southwest Airlines services and earn $100 reward ["Southwest Airlines Shopper Gift Opportunity" Subject: Answer a few questions about Southwest Airlines services and earn $100 reward Answer a few questions about Southwest Airlines services and earn $100 reward http://kpfamilysafe.shop/kF3_26QMdgxy8ozsaGHwzx-8p_P2JNcJF-tQc7fzPARSZfSBDQ http://kpfamilysafe.shop/yVKlmAPkomR74o1QJE9rZ8MNzbI-d_rWR5nfOQpD5IeDUDM7wg ceded the subgenre contained many elements of what would become space opera. They are today referred to as proto-space opera. Early proto-space opera was written by several 19th century French authors, for example, Les Posthumes (1802) by Nicolas-Edme RC)tif, Star ou Psi de CassiopC)e: Histoire Merveilleuse de l'un des Mondes de l'Espace (1854) by C. I. Defontenay and Lumen (1872) by Camille Flammarion. Not widely popular, proto-space operas were nevertheless occasionally written during the late Victorian and Edwardian science-fiction era. Examples may be found in the works of Percy Greg, Garrett P. Serviss, George Griffith, and Robert Cromie. Science fiction scholar E. F. Bleiler cites Robert William Cole's The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236 as the first space opera in his 1990 reference work Science-Fiction: The Early Years. The novel depicts an interstellar conflict between solar men of Earth and a fierce humanoid race headquartered on Sirius. However, the idea for the novel arises out of a nationalistic genre of fiction popular from 1880 to 1914 called future-war fiction. Despite this seemingly early beginning, it was not until the late 1920s that the space opera proper began to appear regularly in pulp magazines such as Amazing Stories.:?10b18? In film, the genre probably began with the 1918 Danish film, Himmelskibet. Unlike earlier stories of space adventure, which either related the invasion of Earth by extraterrestrials, or concentrated on the invention of a space vehicle by a genius inventor, pure space opera simply took space travel for granted (usually by setting the story in the far future), skipped the prel ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15208 ***********************************************