Super Men
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5118527 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Attebery (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | Part 1 |
| Pages | 61-76 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Fiction Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-7729 • E-ISSN: 2327-6207 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/sfs.25.1.0061 |
| OpenAlex | W4409415471 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The superman story has long been a staple of science fiction, combining wish-fulfillment fantasy with the scientific rationale of Darwinian evolution. Under the prodding of John W. Campbell, Jr., nearly every writer of the Golden Age produced at least one such story, and some, like A.E. Van Vogt, wrote little else. In a story that critiques the superman scenario, Philip K. Dick revealed the gender assumptions underlying both the literary and the scientific traditions. Dick's "The Golden Man" (1954) takes off on themes developed in Van Vogt's Slan (1940), Norvell Page's "But Without Horns" (1940) and other Campbell-era fiction, showing that the superhuman characters therein say more about gender roles than about evolutionary advancement. In doing so, Dick also echoed the earlier work of Stanley Weinbaum, whose pre-Campbell The New Adam (1939) depicts a superman whose masculine traits are precisely his points of weakness. (BA
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2019 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |