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This video highlights a period in Science Fiction that is often considered the one that established it as legitimate literature of the genre.

Key Elements of the Lecture
Campbell’s Astounding magazine tended to print hard sci-fi and this may have gone a long way in establishing Science Fiction as a legitimate genre.
Under Campbell's editorship, science fiction developed more realism and psychological depth to characterization than it exhibited in the Gernsbackian "super-science" era.
The July 1939 issue of Astounding Science Fiction containing the first published stories of both A. E. van Vogt and Isaac Asimov are frequently cited as the precise start of the Golden Age.
The development of the atomic bomb increased interest in science, as well as anxiety about the possible apocalyptic effects of a nuclear war.
A major increase in the number of sci-fi films being created throughout the 1950s, and creating a Golden Age of Science Fiction that matched the one taking place in literature.