Subsequent writers have benefitted by taking advantage of being able to dip and delve from their image-bank, mixing-and-matching from their pre-existing archive of ideas. When EE ‘Doc’ Smith, or Isaac Asimov, or Robert Heinlein were first expanding the scope of SF out into the galaxy, it had never been done before. But alternately, those first statements were unique, existing in a separate continuum. That teenage opening up of possibilities that flashes in your head like neon. That moment of ignition is the same now, as it was for readers of earlier decades. It is forever new, at the point of its first discovery. But it also renews for every new initiate. It can be argued that – yes, the literature evolved from its cruder simpler pulp forms, and sophisticated as it grew. There are two perspectives on this phenomena. But those who have read it will have noticed, perhaps, that there is not one line of dialogue in “The Mad Planet”, and there is only one short speech in its sequel’ (in the essay “Writing For The Fun Of It” in ‘Tales Of Wonder’ no.9, Winter 1939). Commenting about his 1926 story “The Mad Planet” he points out that ‘one of the essentials for maintaining the reader’s interest, say the pundits, is dialogue. But, born 16 June 1896 in Norfolk, Virginia, he was one of the genre’s pioneers. Myth-wise, the alias ‘Leinster’ was derived from a province and an ancient Kingdom of Ireland. ‘One of my lunacies is that I enjoy doing things which the authorities in such matters say can’t possibly be right’ proclaimed William Fitzgerald Jenkins – aka ‘Murray Leinster’. It has evolved from simpler forms, into greater complexity. As the literature of science, SF conforms to the principles of evolution.
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