Gernsback, la perversité et l'optimisme à l'aube de la SF

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"There’s a profound optimism at the heart of the life and work of Hugo Gernsback, famed progenitor of the literary genre known as science fiction, a belief that the human mind, combined with hard work and a good bit of tenacity, can transform the human world through the transformation of material things. In his essay from 1916, “The Perversity of Things”, Gernsback confronts the stubbornness of the physical world, its seeming unwillingness to bend to our will. Things themselves are not truly perverse, he argues; what is perverse is our inability, or simple unwillingness, to understand those things, to study them and carefully plan their transformation into the tools that we need, and to remain steadfast and patient on the long and difficult road required for the development of the useful and the true."