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These Sci-Fi Books MADE the 1940's

The 1940s weren’t just a turning point in world history — they were a turning point for science fiction. Shaped by World War II, totalitarianism, mass propaganda, and the arrival of the atomic bomb, this decade forced sci-fi writers to confront a new reality: technology could now end civilisation as easily as it could advance it. In this video, I’m not counting down the “best” sci-fi novels of the 1940s. Instead, I’m looking at *10 science fiction books that *made the decade** — the novels that fundamentally changed what the genre was for. From dystopian surveillance states and post-apocalyptic worlds, to artificial intelligence, cosmic time, and the fear of systems spiralling beyond human control, these books shaped everything sci-fi would become in the decades that followed. This is the decade where science fiction stopped asking “What can we build?” and started asking “What might this cost us?” 📚 Books covered in this video: 00:00 – Intro: The World of the 1940s & Why This Decade Matters 02:04 – Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949) 03:41 – Earth Abides (George R. Stewart, 1949) 05:16 – The Invention of Morel (Adolfo Bioy Casares, 1940) 06:41 – Against the Fall of Night (Arthur C. Clarke, 1948) 08:05 – Beyond This Horizon (Robert A. Heinlein, 1942) 09:13 – The World of Null-A (A. E. van Vogt, 1948) 10:20 – The Cosmic Engineers (Jack Williamson, 1949) 11:18 – The Skylark of Space (E. E. “Doc” Smith, 1946) 12:11 – Bend Sinister (Vladimir Nabokov, 1947) 13:08 – The Humanoids (Jack Williamson, 1949) 14:00 – Outro