How To Use Science fiction In A Sentence
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As a result, instead of the clean visuals that typify the science fiction genre, we see lens flares, shaky handheld cameras, zooms, and sloppy rack focuses even in CGI shots.
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Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers.
Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
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It's science fiction all right, but it's also a character study and a murder mystery.
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It's science fiction but it gives a good inside on war strategies and tactics.
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From Wikipedia: A redshirt is a stock character, used frequently in science fiction but also in other genres, whose purpose is to die soon after being introduced, thus indicating the dangerous circumstances faced by the main characters.
October 2007
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Ray Bradbury turned 90 years old on Aug. 22, and the science fiction pioneer has no intention of slowing down.
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Most Hollywood films, particularly science fiction films, are these days a mass of overfamiliar and uncredited cliches that have been ripped off and merged together, usually not very intelligently.
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Writer, publisher, mother of two incipient adults, slave of cats: Barbara Friend Ish is the publisher of Mercury Retrograde Press, which publishes fantasy, science fiction, and interstitial works.
MIND MELD: The Best Genre Crossovers
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Crick, and his colleague Leslie Orgel, who originally suggested the idea with him, supposed that the bacteria had originally evolved by natural processes on the home planet, but they could equally, while in the mood for science fiction, have added a touch of nanotechnological artifice to the mix, something like the molecular gearwheel illustrated opposite.
Scientists' Responses Solicited
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Despite the Cylons being redesigned, the story changed a little, and the complexity ramped up a thousandfold, the new Battlestar Galactica won legions of new fans for a franchise many thought long since dead, and through extras such as the spin-off project Razor (plus other forthcoming films) and the upcoming prequel series Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica story will continue to echo in the science fiction pantheon long after the series has ended.
Galactica Original | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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It goes without saying that more than a few of these works have been reprinted in anthologies such as Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year and several editions of Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction.
August 2009
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The fiction section contained subsections of fantasy, science fiction, teen fiction, and so on.
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Moreover, his fascination with B-movies, science fiction and the rest of pop culture was self-conscious but not qualified by archness or irony.
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At one level, the movie is about science fiction, kung fu, firearms and non-stop action.
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Michael Chabon is fighting the good fight for science fiction. [via swivet]
August 2008
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The Plaza Theater is showing a classic science fiction double feature.
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In Britain, more so than in other countries, science fiction has always had a stigma attached to it.
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So they hated their "target" audience from the get-go, and despite wanting to get away from "Science Fiction" they are going to continue doing the same thing:
April Fool's Comes Early: SyFy anyone?
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He has written the world's first science fiction novel entirely in Scots.
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From hard-edge science fiction to high-flown fantasy, comic books to film noir, high culture to sub-culture… we sink our teeth into it all!
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Thankfully, I read rather a lot of good (by which I mean charactery) science fiction throughout January and February.
A Sci Fi Experience Wrap-Up
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The other is a lurid science fiction tale, made up by the woman's demon lover during assignations in rundown, disreputable places.
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I don't like science fiction novels much. When you've read one, you've read them all.
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In SF circles, this is being seen as another attack on science fiction as subliterary as opposed to paraliterary which is just so awful and mean.
Nick Mamatas' Journal
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Amazingly tender, gentle film; science fiction and love in perfect harmony.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even though I'm fond of saying we are living in the age of science fiction, until Rosie is doing my dishes, that statement is not correct.
MIND MELD: What Are The Coolest Robots in Science Fiction?
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This is why, when the fantasy turns out to be science fiction in disguise, I tend to like that a lot more.
SF Fanatic: I Am Not A Fan Of Fantasy, Here's Why
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Some authors fill a novel with futuristic scenery and jargon and then strenuously, even stertorously, deny that it's science fiction.
Embassytown by China Miéville – review
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Just as much of today's horror fiction is vampire-driven, one major branch of modern fantasy -- in novels, "cosplay" (costume play), gaming and comics -- is obsessed with an alternate 19th century, one in which the inventions and mad scientists of Jules Verne, the tweedy science fiction of H.G. Wells and the gaslight romances of Arthur Conan Doyle have been mixed and remixed.
"The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack," steampunk by Mark Hodder
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Not only is it a science fiction author's ultimate idea repository and writer's-block alleviator, but the folks at DARPA obviously have a sense of humor about their overtly Matrix-like, world-dominating aspirations.
Brave New World Order: A Googlement Above, Around, and Ahead of the People
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It tells the story of three young people raised at a secluded English boarding school, where we learn their lives are conscribed by a dark secret, one that involves science fiction-like advances in modern medicine.
Director Mark Romanek Tackles 'Never Let Me Go'
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The author outlines both the commonalities that define science fiction fandom and the tensions and schisms within the community, focusing on participants in organized clubs, amateur publications, and conventions.
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Whenever the unthinkable happens, you can be pretty sure science fiction will unthink it.
What's Wrong with Star Trek?
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It could be argued that this apocalyptic novel is a ghost story, science fiction, transcendental cult fiction, anti-military agitprop or new-age fantasy - it is all of these and more.
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That is one of the better moments in filmed science fiction and Darabont nails his critique of the clunky VO.
Frank Darabont Hates The Blade Runner Voice-Over
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No Fear of the Future | An alternate history of chinese science fiction Tem andado a correr os sites e blogs do costume, e só ainda não foi aqui retransmitido por falta de tempo.
Leituras
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Luckily for all of us, a steady diet of pop culture, horror movies, vampire books, and science fiction television saved Lauren from the restrictive confines of her normal suburban routine; she has only just now realized that there are other geeks out there in the world.
Lauren Kalal | Fandomania
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I'd argue that steampunk is basically a form of science fiction that looks backwards rather than forwards.
10. Steampunk, ed. by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
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The genre is not about exploring possibilities, as science fiction does, but about losing ourselves in impossibilities.
July 2007
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He is also a difficult writer to define, ranging from fantasy to science fiction and essays.
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The answer to this question is perhaps less academic for me than most, insomuch as my alter ego is a college professor and I teach an introduction to science fiction and fantasy literature class fairly regularly.
MIND MELD: Speculative Fiction Books That Should Be Assigned in School
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Either way, I don't think you'll find much help on science fiction related groups, where we tend to be ailurophiles for the most part.
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Seems to me the archetype is that of the perils of pride and not a uniquely science fiction construct.
MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2)
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That was the dream of solar sailing, so beloved of both scientists and science fiction writers.
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The science fiction story about a character called Daniel and his clones will be released with 200,000 copies.
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The "superweed" is a favorite villain in science fiction.
Why We Must Learn to Love Weeds
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She has things graphical and novelly in the works, and a master plan for world domination involving Dungeons & Dragons and science fiction writers.
Interviews
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Penguicon: the free software and science fiction con in southeast Michigan, May 1-3
Boing Boing
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Science fiction portrays robots and cyborgs as making our lives simpler.
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Via Locus Online their "blinks" in the left column I found the article Sci-Fi's Brave New World, about science fiction as mythmaking.
Science fiction as myth
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Thus, to dismiss writer-director Darren Aronofsky's hyper-ambitious third feature The Fountain - a heady fusion of science fiction, metaphysics and a melodramatic quest for immortality both romantic and spiritual - for simply believing in its own sentimental grandiloquence is to deny one of the most exquisite and strangely moving trips to the multiplex this year.
GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky.
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Atwood uses the term speculative fiction rather than science fiction.
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What i missed most was some good science fiction/phantasy.
Matthew Yglesias » TV Show of the Decade
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We see this same science fiction morality play told yet again in 2010: The Year We Made Contact, the film that could never be as great as the unsurpassable 2001: A Space Odyssey, but which remains one of the best realistic science fiction films yet made.
MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Film Villains in SF/F/H (with Various Videos of Villainy)
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Science fiction, wrote Asimov, ‘can first, and most important, accustom the reader to the notion of change.’
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I find there are too many negative connotations to genre writing, especially to the ever-so-popular science fiction / fantasy.
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Donnie Darko proves that it's possible to do science fiction with visual effects in the independent film arena.
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Well, science fiction, when I started reading it in 1930, was mostly bug-eyed monsters threatening nubile maidens.
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And as far as Avatar: saw it in 3-D, was wowed by the special effects, thought the movie itself story, acting, directing, etc. was pretty average, wasn’t too bothered by the so-called pantheistic elements in it – it was just science fiction to me.
My Kindle Got Run Over by a Car at Ray Fowler .org
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Science Fiction, by it's very name, implies a fictive universe within an understandable scientific framework.
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This widely panned science fiction effort follows the familiar storyline of humans fighting to save mankind after aliens invade Earth.
The Sun
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As if she wished to be understood as the mother of science fiction, Shelley repeated her futuristic experiment, publishing The Last Man in 1826.
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Yet, perhaps, a century from today, someone using Gates' equations will be able to build starships and make what we know as science fiction in 2001 an everyday reality.
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As the editor of Holography News, it’s always fascinating to see the latest trends in holography streets behind the fantastical science fiction world’s vision of what the technology should achieve.
Hologram Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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Some subgenres, such as the Gothic and science fiction, have until now made little headway in Arabic popular culture.
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The science fiction film had some marvellous special effects.
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It's titled The War on Science Fiction and Marvin Minsky and it attempts to show how science fiction is becoming too "feminized": Science fiction is a very male form of fiction.
Is Science Fiction Becoming 'Feminized'?
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Called variously a child prodigy, a boy wonder, and the wunderkind of science fiction, Delany began to write when he was quite young.
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Damnation Books, publishers of horror, dark fantasy, paranormals, thrillers, science fiction and dark-themed erotica, is giving away a 2nd book this week for folks who join their reader's list.
SF Tidbits for 8/18/09
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It would be up to the scientists to decide which is the viable option and which belongs to the realm of science fiction.
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He loves science fiction in particular.
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It's a joy to find this young author coming into his own, and bringing the craft of science fiction out of the backwaters where it's been caught lately between the regressive drag of publishers marketing to a "safe" readership and the bewildering promises of change and growth offered by postmodernism in all its forms and formlessness.
Embassytown by China Miéville – review
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I'm a feminist science fiction critic who is married to an alien.
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This sounds like science fiction, but the evidence of large asteroid impacts in our history is well established.
The Sun
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Para encerrar o site com chave de ouro, o ensaio de Eleanor Arneson, writing science fiction during the third world war, e rematem com o editorial de Eileen Gunn, a criadora do site: kiss kiss! bang bang!
Desvanecer
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A bibliophile from a young age she has always had an affinity for the genres of science fiction and fantasy.
Kelly Melcher | Fandomania
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MZB was still writing what was being published as SF... the situation that exists today of low-overhead publishing on line and print on demand and self-publication with the web for promotion and publicity and ordering, didn't exist way back when... swords and psionics space and planetary fantasy is rife today with ebooks and paranormal/furistic romances and some science fiction romance.
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs
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The myriad worlds of fantasy and science fiction are where our spirits are free to frolic unfettered by the weight of sin.
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Even these early tales make it clear why Vance is still one of the most revered, read, and taught of science fiction authors, highlighting his blending of genres, forward-thinking and prophetic science, and careful craft.
Subterranean Press » Latest Subterranean Press News
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He is the author of a kitschy science fiction novel about an earthling who decides to pay back his student loan by teaching English on a distant planet.
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Stanleywho becomes an instant expert in any subject that concerns him-had already devoured several libraries of science fact and science fiction.
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This science fiction film lends itself well to wide screen.
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I used to think of movies like The Matrix and Inception as science fiction -- fake adrenalized entertainment in place of boring reality.
Jeff Klima: (The Dangerous World of) Parentheses
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Best Non-Fiction Essay: “Los dioses astronautas en la ciencia ficción”, (“Astronaut gods in science fiction”), Mario Moreno Cortina (BEM On Line)
Science Fiction Awards Watch » Blog Archive » Premios Ignotus Winners
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The link between science fiction and the history of astronautics is complex.
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It's two-fisted, pulp-adventure, science fiction. '
July 2009
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No one I know is on this show, except possibly for the very few happily married childed couples with solid jobs I am acquainted with--except all of those are also either poly, kinky, or science fiction authors as well, and those are not groups represented on Thirtysomething.
Throwdown!
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Thus I think that the broader cultural appropriation of things that used to be solely the purvey of Science Fiction is a good thing, and huge media conventions like San Diego Comicon are a good thing.
MIND MELD: What Can Worldcon and Comic-Con Learn From Each Other?
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Her closer engagement with concrete social change has been accompanied by a rapprochement with the conventions of science fiction.
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As per their introduction, it attempts to help define a new literary movement, one resulting from the evolution of space opera from being the "true heart of science fiction" to a genre that adds more rigorous science, more character depth, better writing and sensitivity to political realities.
REVIEW: The New Space Opera 2 edited by Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan
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For those coming up to speed, I have a Ph.D. in bacterial genetics from U. Wisconsin-Madison (if you're going to do science fiction art, it helps to know some science).
So long, Peter Graves
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Ingenious plots hovered on the frontier of science fiction with a touch of ghost story.
Times, Sunday Times
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The criticism traditionally heaped upon science fiction and fantasy - that they are infantile and escapist genres - has always been fairly risible.
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The Iron Heel by Jack London (1907) has been described as a forerunner to the “soft” science fiction of the 1960s and 70s.
The History of Science Fiction: 1900 - 1909 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
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We are re-writing a film script at the direct request of a studio, preparing a television series pitch, I'm writing a science fiction novel with my mentor Larry Niven, writing the third Tennyson Hardwick detective novel with my wifie, researching a contemporary thriller involving quantum physics, National Security, and the damnedest cult you ever saw.
Archive 2009-07-01
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I think it's pretty easy to argue that Hard SF, of the type written by Larry Niven, is the strong right arm of Science Fiction.
MIND MELD: What's Your Favorite Sub-Genre of Science Fiction and/or Fantasy?
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Undoubtedly the most modern method devised to preserve human bodies might well be said to belong to the realm of science fiction.
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Resnick also offers a great editorial about the silliness of defining science fiction, a genre which refuses to be put in a "straightjacket".
August 2007
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The recent resurgence of science fiction in China adds to its interest, too.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Compare British versus American forms of television, centering on a single genre: crime series, science fiction, situation comedy.
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Hence, a psionic boy with telepathic powers due to his mutation is a science fiction character; but a prophet who reads the unspoken thoughts in the hearts of men due to a blessing from the elf-queen, is a fantasy character.
INTERVIEW: John C. Wright
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Today, science fiction runs the entire gamut from the pulpish to the mainstream (Chabon, McCarthy) and ideas may be served up wholesale in many other media.
John Joseph Adams » 2009 » July
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Not Free SF Reader: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Last Temptation Of Katerina Savitskaya - H.G. Stratmann skip to main | skip to sidebar
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Last Temptation Of Katerina Savitskaya - H. G. Stratmann
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Evidently by the time of the interview he had already been visiting hospitals, as he notes their science fiction-like hypermodernity, and even advises his interviewers to visit one.
Ballardian » ‘I really would not want to fuck George W. Bush!’: A Conversation with J.G. Ballard
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I kind of lost my taste for the science fiction show when they started explaining everything.
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No one picks up a science fiction novel expecting to be scienced or a fantasy novel to be fantasized (that takes porno?)
The Great Debate
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The border between science fact and science fiction gets a bit fuzzy.
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I don't like science fiction novels much. When you've read one, you've read them all.
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Least of all, writers of science fiction, who if they are true to their calling, start with the blankest of canvases, and are free to create, worlds, universes, cultures, states of being and consciousness, the very laws of mass and energy if they so choose.
Point/Counterpoint: Media Tie-Ins
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It had never occured to me how underused the word 'shoogle' is in science fiction.
Encyclopaedia Fantastica
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Nor was it Neal Stephenson, the visionary science fiction writer who imagined a future transformed by nanotechnology in his 1995 novel The Diamond Age.
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Science fiction just doesn't turn me on.
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Science fiction stories often mention robots that can talk.
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Father Brown & remorse beforehand continuous approximation to a perpetual peace a science fiction story about mnemic causation perhaps Borges-like
Archive 2005-08-01
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That was the dream of solar sailing, so beloved of both scientists and science fiction writers.
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2010 April 12 « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
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Unlike many science fiction dystopias, this one seems uncomfortably realistic.
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There have also been suggestions, if not recently, that the boom in fantasy is partly due to the negativity and lack of “soaring imagination” of current science fiction.
F&SF, Reviewing, and Optimism « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
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Caldwell said the lectureship is a great way to expose people and students on campus to the science fiction community.
Clovis News Journal : News
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They interpenetrate of course and the fact that I've been reading science fiction for thirty-five or more years means that I probably have a somewhat more louche approach to these remarkable possibilities than many people do.
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The whole thing is glorious fun, nineteenth-century science fiction, imagining a selenic ecosystem:
Information, Culture, Policy, Education:
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In the Golden Age of science fiction, advances in atomics, aeronautics, and astronautics allowed writers to envision a future that very easily lent itself to an adventure story: namely, the planetary romance.
Science Fiction vs. Fantasy: Speaking for the Defense
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The Masters Of Science Fiction", the 2007 science fiction anthology TV series, lensed in Vancouver, includes all six episodes from the series, including the 'lost' episodes "Little Brother" and "Watchbird":
Archive 2010-04-01
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Another genre opportunity that is raised and discarded is that of science fiction.
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Where did it all start… if I were to pin point any particular instance, it was my fascination with dragons and the genre of science fiction / fantasy.
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So our little beloved side-stream of science fiction is doomed to remerge into the stagnant main waters of literature, one hopes, to sweeten them.
INTERVIEW: John C. Wright
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For these reasons, Frankenstein has been considered the first science fiction novel.
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Often, it is this image that elicits the most delight from the science fiction film fan: the moment in which the technology itself is foregrounded and the visual drama is fetishized.
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From my point of view there is something very young about science fiction.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has composed for a variety of genres but science fiction, horror and fantasy stories dominate his filmography.
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Considering the technical complexities required, televised science fiction has frequently earned less than proportionately balanced critical response.
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Science fiction deliberately foregoes a direct engagement with the world literary fiction confronts more squarely, preferring instead imaginative extrapolations from existing conditions in that world; fantastic fiction ignores the restraints of realism in coming to terms with that world altogether.
Genre Fiction
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Iain sez, The fundraising body for science fiction's Arthur C Clarke Award has just released a collection of essays on past winners (up to and including Quicksilver) and The Aust Gate bookstore has set up a site for it.
Boing Boing: May 21, 2006 - May 27, 2006 Archives
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Science Fiction wird gerne mal als Literatur der Ideen bezeichnet.
2009 April « Memesis Virtualis
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You write in several different genres; you've written some science fiction and romance in addition to mystery.
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After reading Wally K. Daly's untransmitted Doctor Who story, I became curious about his other work - he was a moderately prolific writer of (mostly radio) plays, and I discovered that he had written a science fiction trilogy in the late 1970s.
Before The Screaming Begins trilogy
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Individual susceptibly to concussions varies tremendously, however, so a 100 percent accurate "concussion sensor" for now remains science fiction.
Livescience.com
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Although the term robot may suggest science fiction or exotic gadgets from Japan, robots are commonly used today in industry and the military.
The Seattle Times
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In this section you'll find horror and science fiction.
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What is the difference between playing pinball games and video games, snowboarding and surfing, or reading cyberpunk vs. traditional science fiction?
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The ethos has little in common with that of science fiction; rather, it's a rhapsody on the miraculous benefits the Victorians were expecting their harnessing of electricity to bring to them.
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This sounds like science fiction, but the evidence of large asteroid impacts in our history is well established.
The Sun
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It's no coincidence, I'd say, that Isaac Asimov wrote both science fiction and murder mysteries, or that the Illuminatus Trilogy and similar works appeal to many sf readers, or that noir is everywhere in strange fiction these days, even secondary world fantasy.
Archive 2010-01-01
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Once upon a time, science fiction writers expected similar dauntlessness from space pioneers.
Eastern Europe
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To say that my knowledge of this byway of science fiction is feeble would be a gross overstatement.
Books
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I was the guest at the Science Fiction Society of Northern New Jersey, famous for having the least-pronounceable acronym in skiffydom.
May 17th, 2009
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The welcoming committee is pure science fiction, a towering wind energy farm of sleek white windmills, five storeys high and filling the valley's entire widescreen width.
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It's been repeated by many critics and fans that Donnie Darko is simply an unclassifiable movie, bringing elements of suburban culture, science fiction, fantasy, and family drama to the screen in just under the running time of two hours.
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It's a funny thing, but despite the fact that science fiction and fantasy are my genre fiction of choice, I never liked Lord of the Rings.
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So it would be an error to be too strict or literal-minded about application of the science fiction label.
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The border between science fact and science fiction gets a bit fuzzy.
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From dime novels and penny dreadfuls through to the pulp boom of the early 20th century which gave us the modern commercial genres of Western, Crime, Romance, Science Fiction and so on, that process continues, with all these genres being defined as “pulp fiction” which by now is intrinsically in contradistinction to “literary fiction”.
Archive 2009-05-01
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The result of this subversion is a surprisingly mature and complex look at gender politics — revealing the power of comics and science fiction to address feminist issues and to reach a younger, predominantly male audience with a enlightening message.
It’s a Woman’s World | PopPolitics.com
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Everyone’s favorite caustic, raspy monotone is back for more science fiction-fantasy-mystery hybrid goodness.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
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The idea belongs in the realm of science fiction.
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The Star Trek franchise paved the way for other science fiction television series, most of which were largely unwatchable.
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While science fiction routinely describes face-to-face encounters with intelligent aliens, it may be that we will never actually meet extraterrestrials.
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Anton has a consuming passion for science fiction.
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In the late 1960s, a sixteen-year-old boy living in Orem, Utah, read Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy, a classic science fiction epic set in the far future.
First lines
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Bibliophile Stalker interviews Ellen Datlow, Editor of (among many, many other things) the upcoming anthology The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy: "It's not that the genres have weaknesses or strengths but that the purveyors of genres write well or badly and use the genres ambitiously or in hackneyed ways.
March 2008
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From that comes Terminator 2, Frankenstein, and a huge chunk of science fiction.
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There is not much crossover among readers of romance and science fiction.
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S.J. Higbee whiles away her time writing science fiction and fantasy — her sci-fi adventure novel “Running Out of Space” is due out this year with Cyberwizard Publications.
A DROP OF THE HARD STUFF • by S.J. Higbee
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Well, science fiction, when I started reading it in 1930, was mostly bug-eyed monsters threatening nubile maidens.
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I wouldn't care so much except that in the eyes of many this rubbish is the supposed figurehead of all forward-thinking science fiction, and that is patently false.
Is he dead Jim?
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The purpose of leadership in the space arena is to convince the political leadership that ISRU, In Situ Food Production, and reusable space systems are not science fiction.
NASA Faces Tough Choices & Needs an Administrator Now - NASA Watch
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The border between science fact and science fiction gets a bit fuzzy.
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In it, I study and analyze postmodern science fiction films and novels in an attempt to develop a “postcapitalist” theory of selfhood, technology, subjectivity and the body.
Nonfiction
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He is often confused or inaccurate about the details of science fiction televisions shows and films he mentions – he seems unaware that the new Battlestar Galactica is neither a continuation nor a remake of the earlier series from the late 70s (p.168), and he calls the midi-chlorians from Star Wars “midi-chlorines” (p.184).
Archive 2008-07-01
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Back in 1954 the Austrian social thinker Robert Jungk wrote a bestselling futurological study, the title of which, Tomorrow is Already Here, predicted the way science fact would be constantly breathing down the neck of science fiction as the 20th century proceeded.
Splice
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Science Fiction is not about predicting or anticipating the future, it's about helping us prepare for the future, * any future* and exploring the consequences of actions and situations.
TPN :: GDay World
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The science fiction now in existence is no longer "science.
Who Killed Science Fiction?
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A longtime wearer of contacts, Roberts needed no persuading afterward to keep the new lenses, even if they make him look like some wild-eyed creature from a science fiction film.
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To make the script more marketable, the American fascists were re-cast as anthropophagic extraterrestrials, taking the story into the realm of science fiction.
Latest Articles
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Space experts have dismissed the design as pure science fiction.
Times, Sunday Times
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Quoting from HG Wells' science fiction classic The War of the Worlds, the MP said high-tech windfarms were ‘monstrous tripods, striding over young pine trees, and smashing them aside’.
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But is TV mirroring reality or is it all science fiction?
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The fundamental premise of the publication is that early design for space travel was influenced largely by science fiction.
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While many of these technologies may seem like science fiction, so too were the jet engine, the airplane, and the rocket engine only 100 years ago.
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Polyphony 4 makes it clear enough that a spirit of experimentation exists among those writers who have chosen to work within the uber-genre of science fiction/fantasy, much more so, if this anthology is at all representative, than among those who still aspire to the putative respectability of "literary fiction.
Genre Fiction
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What geeks have, geeks in any field, be it a field like science fiction or a field like tropical fish, is that they are moved to do what they do because of a love and passion for the field above all else.
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Ballard first entered the literary world as a science fiction writer, a genre he soon exhausted and has not explored in years.
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Like the earlier Maps in A Mirror, this collection is a definitive retrospective of the short fiction career of the writer that The Houston Post called “the best writer science fiction has to offer.”
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR APRIL 11TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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It's science fiction but it gives a good inside on war strategies and tactics.
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The resulting sub-genre, cyberpunk, broke from old-school science fiction by focusing on all-pervasive quantum-based technologies such as genetic engineering and microprocessing.
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The term saga also crops up, occasionally, in science fiction, e.g. in relation to E.E.
More about sagas
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They're pretty awful in retrospect, but they got me interested in collies, and before the dust had settled Carol and I bred and exhibited 23 collie champions (naming most of them after science fiction stories and characters).
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves
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What no science fiction writer before the moonshot anticipated was that the Space Race would start out as a contest between two military powers for ascendancy in the 'high ground' of outer space, which then devolved into a prestige project, whose prohibitive costs were bourn for such imponderable goals such as national bragging rights.
MIND MELD: Is Science Fiction Responsible for the Lack of Public Interest in Space Exploration?
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There is not much crossover among readers of romance and science fiction.
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He devoured science fiction books as a teenager.
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Science fiction stories often mention robots that can talk.
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2009 August 08 « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
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But whenever I see science fiction, I flash back to watching Star Trek with my dad, my teddy bear and/or Tina my doll, watching people getting to go everywhere and everywhen.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Mari Ness
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More techno-thriller than pure science fiction, the book is solid and a lot of fun to read.
January 2009
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Ziolkowsky began as a science fiction writer in the late 1800s, but later laid down some of the fundaments of rocket propulsion that are still used today.
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Android, Age One is a science fiction adventure based on the real life and death of a child with leukodystrophy.
Android, age one
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Amazingly tender, gentle film; science fiction and love in perfect harmony.
Times, Sunday Times
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Science fiction and fantasy still have a whiff of geekiness to them and they really shouldn't.
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The book also contains a reprint of a funny science fiction short story, ‘Roll Over Beethoven,’ written by Cooper and Larry S. Haverkos.
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The greatest danger faced by the ants is not that the workers are going to conquer them, as in science fiction stories.
INTERVIEW: Dr. Michio Kaku