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"it slowly dawned on me that the landscape of science is maybe what interests people a great deal in science fiction."
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![]() One of the first science fictions stories to mention this idea. This is one of Ray Cumming's "Tubby" stories; his slow-witted protagonist asks many questions, thoughtfully answered.
The solar storm of 1859 stimulated interest in how events on Earth, like aurora displays and disruption of telegraph services, could be influenced by events in space, like sunspots and solar flares.
Space weather is now an accepted field of study and is of great interest for practical reasons:
An interesting look at space weather is provided in The Weather in Space by Ben Bova, published in Amazing Stories in 1963. You might enjoy this puckish illustration by FINLAY:
![]() (From Weather in Space by Ben Bova) Compare to space weather map from The Storm (1943) by AE van Vogt and the cosmic storm from After World's End (1939) by Jack Williamson. See also the poison space cloud from The Poison Belt (1913) by Arthur Conan Doyle for a discussion of the idea of "clouds" of gas or dust in space. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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'This was their world, their planet — this swift-traveling, yet seemingly moveless vessel.'
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Accompanied by a small selection of similar ideas from science fiction.
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'...war-balloons, or, as it would be more correct to call them, navigable aerostats.'
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