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 | | Science fiction film Science fiction film is "a religion, in an attempt to reconcile man with the unknown" (Sobchak 63).... | | | Flare (science fiction novel) Flare is a Roger Zelazny and Thomas Timoux Thomas, published in 1992. | | | Science fiction universe Strictly speaking, every science fiction tale presents its own version of future and therefore... |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/fiction.html
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| | Science Fiction Films |
| | Beginning in the 80s, science fiction began to be feverishly populated by noirish, cyberpunk films, with characters including cyber-warriors, hackers, virtual reality dreamers and druggies, and underworld low-lifers in nightmarish, un-real worlds (i.e., | | | Its importance as an early science-fiction film was that it served as a precursor and inspiration to Universal's Frankenstein (1931) film and many other plots of sci-fi films (with mad scientists, superhuman androids, Gothic elements, and the evil effects of technology). | | | The most memorable blending of science fiction and horror was in Universal Studios' mad scientist-doctor/monster masterpiece from director James Whale, Frankenstein (1931), an adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel. |
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http://www.filmsite.org/sci-fifilms.html
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| | DMZ: John W. Campbell's Golden Age of Science Fiction |
| | Of course, the main reason to view John W. Campbells Golden Age of Science Fiction is for the light it sheds on this seminal figure in science fiction, and Solstein and his crew manage to do this exceptionally well. | | | The remainder of John W. Campbells Golden Age of Science Fiction, however, serves to correct that lack. | | | Using new interviews with several authors, as well as archival footage of Isaac Asimov, John W. Campbells Golden Age of Science Fiction examines Campbells influence on science fiction. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/campbell.html
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| | Science Fiction Films |
| | Beginning in the 80s, science fiction began to be feverishly populated by noirish, cyberpunk films, with characters including cyber-warriors, hackers, virtual reality dreamers and druggies, and underworld low-lifers in nightmarish, un-real worlds (i.e., | | | Its importance as an early science-fiction film was that it served as a precursor and inspiration to Universal's Frankenstein (1931) film and many other plots of sci-fi films (with mad scientists, superhuman androids, Gothic elements, and the evil effects of technology). | | | The most memorable blending of science fiction and horror was in Universal Studios' mad scientist-doctor/monster masterpiece from director James Whale, Frankenstein (1931), an adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel. |
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http://www.filmsite.org/sci-fifilms.html
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| | SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY |
| | Blade Runner is one of two Ridley Scott films we use to open our discussion of science fiction.. | | | She draws heavily form the social sciences, particulary, anthropology (her mother and father were both anthropolgists) in building her stories; it is precisely this shift away from the "hard" sciences that identifies her with the "new wave" science fiction writers of the late sixties. | | | Le Guin is arguably the best science fiction writer writing and may very well be simply one of the best writers of the twentieth century. |
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http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/hmcl3220/summary.html
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| | “Once again we return to film, and we also turn to another one of the New Wave Science Fiction writers. | | | There you’ll find Ellison presenting a version of himself that’s the standard version he’s been presenting for years that will give you some sense of what he’s up to a science fiction writer, as a critic, and as an editor. | | | They changed science fiction from being dominated by its old traditions to being a form that could evolve and become, in many ways, a much more serious art form. |
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http://www.d.umn.edu/~tbacig/sfdemo/dekker/transcripts/bhdintro.html
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| | The Crowned Anarchist Literature and Science Fiction - Roland Michel Tremblay |
| | In this forum you can discuss matters related to this website and the following subjects: literature, poetry, short stories, science fiction, theater, cinema, television, personnal diaries, philosophy and other writings. | | | All these ideas can be adapted for a short or a long feature film, and the TV series can be adapted for a film. | | | - Actors, writers, twists, action, humor, locations, esthetic of the sets and props, main and B stories, big tangents, how much science, magic and paranormal to include in the show, special effects and special guest stars |
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http://www.crownedanarchist.com/scifi.htm
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| | Central Europe Review - Film: Aleksandr Sokurov's Dni zatmeniia |
| | This might seem like an unusual diversion for a piece of "science fiction" (if we can call Dni zatmeniia that, but it is in fact a continuation of science-fiction tradition. | | | The comparison is multileveled, since Dmitri's life is in the genre of film fiction whereas the local inhabitants are shot, as Jameson notes, in a manner which looks as if the material was originally intended for a documentary. | | | Whilst the book could be viewed as a philosophical dialogue on how to behave in a police state, the film, Jameson argues, discusses the relationship between the West and Russia. |
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http://www.ce-review.org/00/3/kinoeye3_horton.html
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| | E220, Science Fiction, Dr. O'Conner |
| | The last two decades has seen a surge in science fiction, in print and on the screen (film and television). | | | One "splinter" group of science fiction in the last twenty years is known as 'cyberpunk.' William Gibson's Neuromancer marked a watershed, denoting fiction much like that of the psychodelic seventies period, with journeys into the soul and self not through drugs but through "plugging" into the dark and complex cyber-network world of the future. | | | New authors have began using science fiction to explore issues pertinent to society today (perhaps not so different from the past), the environment, pollution, overpopulation and population control, religion, cloning, robotics, viruses like AIDS, and big business and corporations. |
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http://faculty.millikin.edu/~moconner/e220/sfhistory.html
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| | DMZ: John W. Campbell's Golden Age of Science Fiction |
| | Frederik Pohl plays around with a lot of the same topics covered by Gordon Dickson and Poul Anderson in The Ideas of Science Fiction. In this film, Pohl talks about the way the same ideas crop up time and again in science fiction writing, each time building on the previous ideas. | | | Simak not only discusses his reasons for writing science fiction, but he also talks about specific books he has written and how changes in his life, not just changes in his writing ability, mean that he could not have written certain books, for instance, City, at a different point in his career. | | | In his opinion, using science fiction in a story is really no more than a way of using the world which is around him and extrapolating to tell a story. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/lectures.html
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| | Novel based on the landmark science fiction film. | | | The Seeds of Time BR 1098 by John Wyndham 4 volumes Ten science fiction pieces some humorous dealing with love, morality, psychology, and the human condition, through such plots as those of the struggle between two men to inhabit one healthy body, and of the mixed marriage of a twentieth-century man and a twenty-second-century woman. | | | The Day of the Triffids BR 8820 by John Wyndham 2 volumes In this English science fiction work, a blinding blast from meteors causes the Earth to be overrun by great flesh-eating plants, which almost exterminate humankind. |
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http://www.loc.gov/nls/bibliographies/published/scifi/other.txt
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| | Movie Review: The Adventures of Pluto Nash - By William Stone, III -Price of Liberty |
| | It is, however, the best filmed libertarian science fiction since the late, lamented Firefly (DVD Collection). | | | Because the overwhelming majority of modern science fiction advocates initiation of force -- often on a galactic scale -- I am constantly frustrated in my attempts to enjoy it. | | | The perfect case in point is the most popular science fiction franchise of all time: Star Trek. |
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http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/03/12/16/stone.htm
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| | pulp |
| | Battlefield Earth (1984) represented a compilation of all of his pulp science fiction themes, and the film version draws heavily upon this incredible legacy. | | | Today’s science fiction films owe much to the early work of the Golden Age of Science Fiction, and “Battlefield Earth” pays tribute to the pulp origins of the genre while at the same time pointing a direction for future cinematic efforts. | | | Fiction.” Similar kudos and accolades were pronounced on the motion picture as George Lucas, Billy Bob Thornton, and hundreds of other members of Hollywood’s elite declared their approval, but none were as prescient. |
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http://www.towson.edu/~flynn/pulp.htm
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| | Science Fiction |
| | We have 43 fiction reviews, 5 science and non-fiction reviews, 2 art book reviews and a news page covering film, TV and author news together with listing of UK major publishers' forthcoming SF/Fantasy and popular science book releases due out before the New Year (2006)... | | | New Science Fiction News for the Autumn 2003 | | | New Science Fiction News for the Spring 2004 |
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http://www.concatenation.org/whatsnew.html
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| | The Free, Spontaneous and Heroic Life: Dystopian Visions in British Science Fiction Films |
| | It is, perhaps, a cliché that science fiction (sf) is a projection of the current culture, that sf is less about the future than about now. | | | The only film contemporaneous with and in the spirit of the New Wave was The Final Programme (1973), an adaptation of a Michael Moorcock novel which Moorcock himself loathed.(3) | | | The concern with juvenile delinquency and violence - particularly violence associated with football and the growth of the cult of the skinhead - continued into the 1970s, making Kubrick's film as topical in 1971 as Burgess's novel had been in the early 1960s. |
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http://try.ibook.com/identity-ibook/stevedewey/mysharer/brit_sf_dystopias.htm
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| | Gary Westfahl's Bio-Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film: Chris Marker |
| | In a career otherwise devoted to distinctive documentary films, Chris Marker has made one astonishing contribution to science fiction film: his short film La Jetée [The Pier]. | | | Gary Westfahl's Bio-Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film: Chris Marker | | | Film based on his work: 12 Monkeys (Terry GILLIAM 1995). |
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http://www.sfsite.com/gary/mark01.htm
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| | Lincoln City Libraries - Science Fiction and Fantasy Resources |
| | Gary Westfahls Biographical Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film is a detailed source of information for genre film history, with cross-referenced bibliographies of writers, directors and actors. | | | Dedicated to the study and teaching of science fiction. | | | Their collection of industry links at http://www.locusmag.com/Links/Portal.html is an excellent place to begin research on science fiction and fantasy-related subjects. |
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http://www.lcl.lib.ne.us/webliographies/sf.htm
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| | PWHCE Film Review: GATTACA |
| | The genre of science fiction film can be divided into two categories; hard and soft science fiction. | | | A soft science fiction film's cutting edge is often determined by the extent that it causes the viewer to re-assess the future with reference to their status quo. | | | Hard science fiction films are normally set in the future and have a loose storyline that is incidental to the high-tech gadgetry and special effects that serve as the main novelty and consequent attraction of the film. |
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http://www.pwhce.org/gattaca.html
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| | News Indexed by Topic - SCIENCE FICTION |
| | Of course, for more than 100 years, filmmakers have been using science fiction to explore new realities - and to plumb the existing one." | | | Science fiction traditionally focuses on the impact of imaginary technologies or sciences on humans. | | | This is an approach used within science as well, testing understanding and exploring possibilities; scientists often point to science fiction as an early influence. |
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http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/newstopics/scifi.html
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| | Science Fiction Course Syllabus |
| | You may report on an assigned author, novel, or film, or on another author or work of science-fiction literature or film. | | | To survey American science-fiction literature and film since 1945: the "Golden Age," the New Wave, the New Women, Cyberpunk, and beyond 2000. | | | We will consider science fiction as the literature of science, technolgy, and change, and as perhaps the most characteristic American literature since 1945, a genre affecting all areas of our popular culture. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/agordon/IDH98.HTM
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| | Meet Scorpius Digital Publishing's Authors |
| | His novelettes "Sharp Tang" and "Entangled Eyes Are Smiling" were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Award in 1995 and 2004 respectivley, and To Hold Infinity and Paradox were on the BSFA shortlists for Best Novel in 1999 and 2001. | | | Richard Christian Matheson is best known for his concise, evocative short fiction such as the stories contained in Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks (Tor), and Dystopia, a multi-media omnibus from Gauntlet Press, and as a novelist (Created By, Bantam). | | | He is less well known for the work he does most often: writing for the film and television industries, where his work has appeared in Amazing Stories, Wiseguy, and Hill Street Blues, to mention a few. |
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http://www.scorpiusdigital.com/auth2.html
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| | BeWrite.net - Content |
| | Paul Barnett, is best known by his most frequent nom de plume, John Grant, under which name he has written some sixty books, both fiction and nonfiction. | | | Carole's love of literature was born aboard Her Majesty's Canadian Ship Cormorant when she escaped into the fictional world of action and adventure to while away the long and lonely hours in her bunk, and dreamed of becoming an author and editor. | | | A winner of several writing awards, she works as a freelance copywriter and is Program Director for the Rhode Island International Film Festival. |
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http://www.bewrite.net/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=5
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| | Science Fiction mad - Science Fiction Age |
| | Profile that explains his importance in the history of science fiction. | | | Tarmongaidon.Net - Wheel of Time - Fantasy and Science Fiction | | | Essay by John L. Flynn argues that the film version of "Battlefield Earth" is a |
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http://www.sciencefictionmad.com/sciencefictionage
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| | Science Fiction: Histories, Texts, Media |
| | This is an interdisciplinary course, which looks at science fiction from the perspective of cultural history and of film and media studies, as well as discussing the written literary texts; two members of staff from English and one member of staff from History are involved in the teaching of this course. | | | It is intended to introduce students to the history of science fiction and to the whole gamut of its various cultural manifestations. | | | Professor Parrinder is the author of Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching (1980), the editor of Science Fiction: A Critical Guide (1979), and the author of several books on H.G. Wells, most recently Shadows of the Future: H.G. Wells, Science Fiction and Prophecy (Liverpool University Press, 1995). |
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http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~lhsjamse/sfma.htm
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| | SF Citations for OED |
| | New Wave was a term first applied, by anthologist Judith MERRIL, to the avant-garde stories published in the British science-fiction magazine NEW WORLDS for a few years after 1964. | | | New Wave, Françoise Giroud's term (nouvelle vague) to describe a group of younger French film directors who emerged in the late 1950s has since been enthusiastically appropriated by promoters of almost any unconventional movement within a popular art form previously characterized by conventions or formulae. | | | The ambitious work of the writers who were considered to be part of the New Wave was swiftly going out of print, and what was coming in was the first surge of Star Trek novelizations, Tolkien imitations, juvenile space adventure books, and other highly commercial stuff that I had no interest in writing or reading. |
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http://www.jessesword.com/sf/view/168
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| | Scifi magazines on-line listing. Science Fiction Crowsnest. |
| | The Magazine of Fantasy& Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the SF magazine which was the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King's Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. | | | News and information about Continuum Science Fiction, a new print SF magzine. | | | Science fiction magazine featuring lots of hard sf short fiction. |
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http://www.computercrowsnest.com/directory/fdmags.shtml
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| | Amazon.com: Books: eXistenZ: A Novelization |
| | > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > General > Contemporary | | | This novelization of David Cronenberg's film by established British SF writer Christopher Priest involves confusion between levels of reality, as portrayed so vividly in novels by Philip K. Dick. | | | Priest's book isn't a good transposition of Cronenberg's eXistenZ, in my opinion. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0061020273?v=glance
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Existenz |
| | A science fiction novel based on the David Cronenberg film, featuring a shocking and violent tale of virtual reality that shatters the line between reality and imagination in a sophisticated, futuristic hi-tech game. | | | The story involves much confusion between levels of reality, as done so well in novels by Philip K. Dick and Priest himself. | | | This is a novelisation of David Cronenberg's movie; John Luther Novak is actually a pseudonym of established British SF writer Christopher Priest. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671033085
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| | Locus Online: Science Fiction News, Reviews, Resources, Perspectives |
| | • The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle is hosting the first annual Science Fiction Short Film Festival on February 4th from 4 - 9 p.m. | | | • The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and Dell Magazines have reached an agreement concerning electronic rights of material published in Analog and Asimov's magazines. | | | Finalists for this year's Philip K. Dick Award, for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States, are by Neal Asher, M.M. Buckner, Karin Lowachee, Justina Robson (twice), and Wil McCarthy. |
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http://www.locusmag.com
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