The main assignment for this week is to prepare for the midterm exam, which you will be taking on Monday, March 20.  Additionally, although we have not yet had much time to discuss the “pulp era” in science fiction, which extends roughly from 1926, when Hugo Gernsback, who is sometimes referred to as the “father of science fiction [in the U.S.],” publishes the first issue of the magazine Amazing Stories until 1938 when Robert W. Campbell takes over the editorship of the magazine from Gernsback, I’d like you to read some texts from this period.  Please read the following: 1/ Gernsback’s April, 1926 editorial to the first issue and first volume of Amazing Stories, 2/ Gernsback’s June 1929 editorial to the first issue and first volume of his next magazine Science Wonder Stories, and 3/ a story by H. G. Wells published in the 1926 issue of Amazing Stories and/or The Time Machine (1895).  Please don’t hesitate to e-mail me with any questions about the midterm or the readings: jrodgers@citytech.cuny.edu