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| | Fictional universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Fictional universes are most common in, but not exclusive to, the science fiction and fantasy genres. | | | A fictional universe is usually differentiated from the setting of, and the cosmology established by, ancient or modern legends, myths and religions, although there are countless fictional universes that draw upon such sources for inspiration. | | | Virtual worlds are fictional worlds in which online computer games, notably MMORPGs and MUDs, take place. |
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Early science fiction was published in books and in general circulation magazines. | | | Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals. | | | A science fiction writer is generally not trying to write a history of the future that they believe will happen, any more than a writer of westerns is trying to create a historically accurate depiction of the old West. |
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Early science fiction was published in books and in general circulation magazines. | | | Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals. | | | A science fiction writer is generally not trying to write a history of the future that they believe will happen, any more than a writer of westerns is trying to create a historically accurate depiction of the old West. |
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| | science - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about science |
| | , and astronomy astronomy, branch of science that studies the motions and natures of celestial bodies, such as planets, stars, and galaxies ; more generally, the study of matter and energy in the universe at large. | | | Levin had come across the magazine articles about which they were disputing, and had read them, interested in them as a development of the first principles of science, familiar to him as a natural science student at the university. | | | Science, in the modern sense of the term, came into being in the 16th and 17th cent., with the merging of the craft tradition with scientific theory and the evolution of the scientific method. |
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| | WritingScienceFiction |
| | Sometimes the science is faulty, but authors make this sacrifice to make some kind of poetic or thematic statement, Still, if the science were removed, the work would fall apart, and so it still is considered part of the Science Fiction body of literature. | | | The next significant writer to contribute to the establishment of Science Fiction as a genre was Jules Vern, the first writer to consciously combine the adventure tale, Gothic tradition, and science. | | | Science Fiction may be a literature of ideas, but it still carries all the demands of any other type of fiction. |
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http://www.delta.edu/drsnyder/WritingScienceFiction.html
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| | NYPL, Comic Books Research Guide |
| | Unfortunately, as with other genres of popular literature such as science fiction, comic books were often considered unworthy of addition to research library collections. | | | Attempts to cover the rise and fall of the comic book industry from the 1930s through the 1950s" Each chapter deals with a different publishing house and follows the development of its major characters through other media such as movies and television. | | | For those seeking to break into the comic book industry there is a chapter on comic book publishers. |
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| | Science Fiction |
| | Although the label "science fiction" was never actually applied to literary products until the 1920s (when it was used, as Vonnegut implies, to identify exotic tales of imagination and adventure published in juvenile-oriented pulp magazines), the genre can easily be expanded to include some of the oldest and most distinguished works of world literature. | | | And the first bonafide science fiction classic is probably Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (1818)--a gothic tale of technoscientific aspiration, hubris, and retribution that continues to gain fans not only in Hollywood (five different productions in the 1990s!) but among contemporary SF readers as well. | | | If none--that is, if all we require are certain themes, characters, settings, and plot elements (e.g., an alien monster, a voyage through space, imaginary worlds, contact with a spirit or extraterrestial) then the Bible is science fiction. |
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| | List of science fiction novels - encyclopedia article about List of science fiction novels. |
| | Babel-17 Babel-17 is a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (that language forms thought) is strongly influential. | | | Book of the New Sun The Book of the New Sun is a novel (initially published in four volumes) written by fantasy and science fiction author Gene Wolfe chronicling the journey of Severian, an apprentice torturer exiled from the Guild of Torturers for committing the one unforgiveable act, to the highest position in the land. | | | Some notable science fiction Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List%20of%20science%20fiction%20novels
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| | Science Fiction as a Genre in Adolescent Literature |
| | Science fiction is many times described as being a cross between the Romance and the Western genres. | | | Science fiction similarly takes the real world as we know it today, with all its facts and natural laws, as its first postulates. | | | Despite its low literary value, this early 20th century science fiction actually turned out to be prophetic. |
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http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/sciencefiction.htm
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| | AfterEllen.com - Lesbian/Feminist Science Fiction |
| | Feminist science fiction might have been full of women on horses pounding drums in the forests, but (paradoxically) none of that pounding or riding led to sex in the woods. | | | More recent feminist science fiction novels, such as Nicola Griffith’s "Ammonite," have moved beyond 1970s feminism’s romance of the earth mother. | | | Although women have written about imagined utopias since the nineteenth century, feminist science fiction did not come into its own until the late 1960s. |
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A science fiction story may be firmly rooted in real scientific possibilities as they are understood at the time of writing, as in Arthur C. Clarke's novel A Fall of Moondust, or highly imaginative, set in an extraterrestrial civilization or a parallel universe, as in Isaac Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves. | | | Early science fiction was published in books and in general circulation magazines. | | | If the society, the person, the technology, and the scientific knowledge base in the story are all drawn from observed reality, without much detail about the scientific aspects, the story may be classed as mainstream, contemporary fiction rather than as science fiction, like Marooned by Martin Caidin. |
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| | Profiles 38 - Science Fiction Comics (Sep 2000) |
| | Beginning with this agenda, the science fiction comic typically worked from a kind of formula, though specific stories didn't necessarily comply in all particulars - rather, this formula provided the key elements writers might choose to use to spice up their tales. | | | Julius Schwartz, John Broome, Gardner Fox, and other writers who made the new generation of DC superheroes would craft science fiction tales in the fifties and sixties. | | | Frequently the science fiction book pursued a kind of bizarre humor of juxtaposition. |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/tatooine/niven/142/profiles/pro38.html
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| | Sociological Science Fiction Defined |
| | A good sociological science fiction novel immerses me in a culture existing nowhere beyond the page while also telling me a fascinating tale. | | | The book doesn't include fancy space battles or conquering new worlds that are generally associated with science fiction. | | | Hard science fiction includes physics, mechanics, biology and other sciences where the results are supposedly predictable whether the science is pulled from thin air or extrapolated from existing research. |
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| | Science Fiction and the Feminist Movement |
| | Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is unequivocally considered the first true science fiction novel and Shelly, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, is referred to as the founding mother of science fiction. | | | Science fiction, as a literary genre, is commonly accepted as a male realm. | | | Unlike mainstream fiction, science fiction allows for settings which are not limited to the historical or narrowly "realistic." This broader definition allows for new settings, new social structures, perhaps new life forms, without necessitating a "scientific" explanation of how t hese all came about. |
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| | Futurist.com: Science Fiction |
| | Greg Bear is a successful science fiction writer who shares his images of the future and thoughts on writing. | | | Most of Science Fiction is literature that deals with the future. | | | This section of Futurist.com introduces books and media about science and science fiction. |
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A science fiction story may be firmly rooted in real scientific possibilities as they are understood at the time of writing, as in Arthur C. Clarke's novel A Fall of Moondust, or highly imaginative, set in an extraterrestrial civilization or a parallel universe, as in Isaac Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves. | | | Early science fiction was published in books and in general circulation magazines. | | | If the society, the person, the technology, and the scientific knowledge base in the story are all drawn from observed reality, without much detail about the scientific aspects, the story may be classed as mainstream, contemporary fiction rather than as science fiction, like Marooned by Martin Caidin. |
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| | ipedia.com: Science fiction Article |
| | Today, pure science fiction or fantasy books only occasionally make the bestseller lists, although, in overall numbers there are more science fiction or fantasy books published now than in the past. | | | The earliest known usage of term "science fiction" is in 1851 (in Chapter 10 of William Wilson's A Little Earnest Book upon a Great Old Subject), in which he writes: "Science-Fiction, in which the revealed truths of Science may be given interwoven with a pleasing story which may itself be poetical and true." | | | Although better known for other works, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also wrote early science fiction. |
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| | Women and SF |
| | At last we come to cyberpunk, and though one could argue science fiction is finally in a postcyberpunk phase, it is evident that the rest of the world is still coming to terms with the cyberpunk generation. | | | Proto-science fiction includes many gothic narrative examples as well as those written before "The Golden Age."[8] Before science fiction was classified as a separate genre, such authors as H. Wells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aldous Huxley, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jules Verne were prime examples of writers creating a fiction considered speculative in nature. | | | Gernsback's ideas regarding the nature of science do not really consider the impact of the prose, for as William Bainbridge clearly establishes, Gernsback's preoccupation was the "scientific authenticity and the romance of technological progress" (54). |
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| | Science Fiction on Radio |
| | Arch Oboler wrote several stories which were science fiction in form for his Lights Out and Arch Oboler Plays series: Rocket From Manhattan, The Immortal Gentleman and others. | | | Bright ideas for science fiction tales don't come on order; they're usually the product of a moment's inspiration, by a writer who is steeped in the field." | | | Despite a dry spell, another true science fiction that made its way to radio in the thirties is probably the best known and would shake the foundations of belief for listeners coming at a time when the world was already clashing on the European continent. |
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| | Isaac Asimov Home Page |
| | Science Fiction writer Michael A. Burstein pays homage to Isaac in Cosmic Corkscrew, his Hugo Award nominated story which appeared in the June 1998 issue of Analog, and honors the 60th anniversary of Asimov's submission of his first story to Astounding Science Fiction. | | | Asimov developed the Three Laws (with the help of his editor John W. Campbell) because he was tired of the science fiction stories of the 1920s and 1930s in which the robots, like Frankenstein's creation, turned on their creators and became dangerous monsters. | | | Jenkins' Spoiler-Laden Guide to Isaac Asimov is a collection of John Jenkins' reviews of every one of Isaac Asimov's books. |
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| | SpeculativeFiction.net |
| | Other cross-genre stories such as science fiction romance are not yet included here. | | | In this same category are statements like: "Science fiction is not part of the canon of english literature." Really? | | | In hard science fiction, science and technology are integral to the plot to the point of being the main protagonists. |
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| | Article: Reason, Sexuality, and the Self in Libertarian Science Fiction Novels, by Greg Beatty |
| | Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Genre. | | | James Gunn has stated that science fiction "is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people." Given the stability these novels claim for human character, libertarian science fiction is more about stasis, or, more charitably, about people effecting change on the universe without being changed by their actions. | | | Since libertarian science fiction is also a debatable term, I'm only looking at the novels that have won the Prometheus Award, the award given annually since 1982 by the Libertarian Futurist Society. |
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Sometimes, utopic and dystopic literature is regarded as science fiction (accurate insofar as sociology is science); however, dystopic literature sometimes falls under the cyberpunk genre. | | | Early science fiction was published in books and in general circulation magazines. | | | Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals. |
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| | Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A science fiction story may be very realistic, as in Arthur C. Clarke's novel A Fall of Moondust, or highly imaginative, set in an extraterrestrial civilization or a parallel universe, as in Isaac Asimov's novel The Gods Themselves. | | | Early science fiction was published in books and in general circulation magazines. | | | Science fiction is a genre of fiction in which advances in science, or contact with more scientifically advanced civilizations, create situations different from those of the both the present day and the known past. |
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| | Mystery in Space: the Science Fiction Comic Book |
| | Its basic concept, a revival of the past in a science fictional context, would be used in several tales in the DC sf comic books. | | | This is very different from the Adam Strange tales to come, which are all carefully set against the same science fictional world. | | | This was a common procedure in Silver Age comics, writing a story that rationalizes an imaginative cover. |
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| | Fiction Department - Enoch Pratt Free Library |
| | For a chart that tracks when and where science fiction, fantasy, and horror works are rated bestsellers, click on "Monitor," then on "This Week's Bestsellers." For a list of new books in these genres, click on "Monitor," then on "New Books." The list of new books may include titles not listed in Amazon. | | | Heralded by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein in the eighteenth century and works by Jules Verne and H. Wells in the nineteenth, science fiction emerged as a distinct genre in the 1920s and 30s, when it flourished in magazines. | | | The most prestigious prizes for science fiction and fantasy are the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, which may go to a work in either genre, and the World Fantasy Award, which goes to a work of fantasy. |
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| | Currey sf |
| | [2] of first-edition science fiction (the original purchase of 3,050 titles was from Currey's personal collection), and with the addition of his annual gifts, his contribution of another 2,700 titles (including Roger Zelazny's fanzine collection), Currey's own interests have given the collection its focus. | | | The original goal was to acquire the 6,050 first editions Currey cited in his landmark bibliography, including the non-science fiction and non-fiction works by the same authors. | | | The Currey Collection addresses two specific areas: Science Fiction from 1818 (the publication date of Frankenstein), and author collections of "major twentieth-century science fiction and fantasy authors," with additional material from the contemporary period. |
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| | history sf |
| | Until then, feminist authors must infiltrate the system covertly, for as long as science fiction continues to serve as a barometer of popular patriarchal culture, women's roles must be hacked from the circuitry of the male matrix. | | | Proto-science fiction includes many gothic narrative examples as well as those written before "The Golden Age."[3] Before science fiction was classified as a separate genre, such authors as H. Wells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Aldous Huxley, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jules Verne were prime examples of writers creating a fiction considered speculative in nature. | | | Gernsback's ideas regarding the nature of science do not really consider the impact of the prose, for as William Bainbridge clearly establishes, Gernsback's preoccupation was the "scientific authenticity and the romance of technological progress" (54). |
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| | Veronica Hollinger- Feminist Science Fiction: Construction and Deconstruction |
| | She makes frequent and cogent use of their own commentaries so that, for example, we are treated to details of Tiptree's commentary-in-disguise written for the 1975 symposium on "Women and Science Fiction," which was subsequently published as the double issue Khatru 3 and 4. | | | In fact, Lefanu herself points out that Carter "is a writer that science fiction fans can boast of for taking SF out of the ghetto and revealing its seriousness to a sceptical world" (p. | | | One of the most enjoyable aspects of the four in-depth studies included in Lefanu's volume is that they develop as dialogues with the writers she is reading. |
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| | Writing Science Fiction |
| | The nine-time winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards has chosen his most thought provoking observations for this vivid, 20-year chronicle of events in both science fiction and the world in general. | | | The modern marketplace of science fiction and the relationship between art, culture, and commerce as reflected in works of science fiction are the concerns of these original essays. | | | The contributors, all of whom are science fiction writers, editors, or critics, offer a wealth of new perspectives and insights on the forces that both drive and hinder creativity and its commodification. |
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