Pedantically, I wonder about: "the readers Gernsback was cultivating didn't ask about the politics of radio" with this coming back to haunt them in the 1930s.
Both radio enthusiasts Gernsback are talking about the politics of radio and regulation as early as 1912.
Yeah, US Science Fiction, and US literature generally move in the direction of being increasingly willfully blind to politics, but I believe that's more of a post-war/cold war trend.
Pedantically, I wonder about: "the readers Gernsback was cultivating didn't ask about the politics of radio" with this coming back to haunt them in the 1930s.
Both radio enthusiasts Gernsback are talking about the politics of radio and regulation as early as 1912.
Yeah, US Science Fiction, and US literature generally move in the direction of being increasingly willfully blind to politics, but I believe that's more of a post-war/cold war trend.