3. Edisonade: "any story dating from the late 19th century onward and featuring a young US male inventor hero and who ingeniously..."
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4. "...extricates himself from tight spots and who, by so doing, saves himself from defeat and corruption."
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5. Astonishing Science Fiction was the major home for the Edisonade and also publication where Dianetics made its debut.
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6. Hubbard, in casting himself as the lone genius inventor whose discovery would revolutionize world, was writing "real life" Edisonade.
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7. Joseph Cambell, editor of Astonishing Science Fiction, and early Hubbard champion was a sucker for the Edisonade.
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8. Aside from Dianetics, Campbell embraced host of other pseudoscience technologies (psi, perpetual motion machines) & "lone inventors"
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9. The Edisonade provided the cultural ground which made Hubbard plausible to the gullible.
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10. The chief problem with 1940s science fiction was a radical misunderstanding of collaborative nature of modern science.
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11. In the age of the Manhattan Project, science fiction writers still held up lone inventor Edison as the model for how science works.
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