‘Not one voice speaking to many’: E C Large, wireless, and science fiction fans in the mid-twentieth century

In this paper, E. C. Large’s 1956 novel Dawn in Andromeda is examined, using literary analysis, as a work of public history science. The recounts how God places pioneer population on new planet, challenging them to from nothing the creation ‘seven-valve all-wave superhet wireless’ single generation. On general level, article presents science firmly rooted human and material efforts engineering. As such, it shown chime more particularly with hopeful definitions explored by wireless enthusiasts first generation fiction fans Britain during 1930s. However, optimism 1930s not borne out novel; ultimately, satirises form corrupted that did deliver what had hoped for.