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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)At the age of three, Isaac Asimov was brought to Brooklyn from Petrovichi, Russia, by penniless immigrant parents. He grew up in a series of candy stores, earned a Ph.D. in chemistry and reached the rank of associate...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)With nearly five hundred books to his credit, Isaac Asimov was probably the most prolific American writer of the century, and his range was as vast as his output. He was among other things a master at explaining science...
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From: Foundation
Reiterated Plots and Themes in the Robot Novels: Getting away with Murder and Overcoming Programming
Just as the Robot stories and novels exhibit the same chaos-theory concepts as does the Foundation series, but in a somewhat different way, so too do the Robot novels exhibit the same fractal quality of duplication... -
From: ExtrapolationMany science fiction writers attempt to create plausible future worlds by extrapolating scientific, technological, and social trends into the future. Such extrapolations are often quickly out of date, since scientific...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersIsaac Asimov was almost unbelievably prolific in both the number of books he produced and the variety of genres he tackled. He churned out mysteries, young-adult and adult science fiction, young-adult and adult...
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From: ExtrapolationAs a psychologist specializing in psychobiography, and as a science fiction fan for over thirty-five years, I have become intrigued by the psychology of science fiction writers. Why do they write, and why science...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Lawrence Durrell's Tunc and Nunquam are the two parts of a science fiction novel known collectively as The Revolt of Aphrodite. The plots describe the efforts of Felix Charlock to build a computer, Abel, and a robot...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)A major Romantic writer-critic-editor of the American Renaissance, Edgar Allan Poe experimented with a variety of the then-popular literary modes, and invented quite a few literary subgenres including science fiction as...
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From: Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Warrick provides background information on Dick’s short fiction, discussing his thematic emphases on the differences between humans and machines and between reality and...
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From: Cyberculture, Cyborgs and Science Fiction: Consciousness and the Posthuman[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Haney “demonstrates that posthuman encounters may indeed preclude sacred experience understood as an unsayable void of conceptions,” citing several of Asimov’s stories from I,...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Karel Capek was a prolific author of stories, essays, novels, travelogues, plays, and newspaper articles. The word "robot" was coined by his brother Josef (his collaborator in some works), but its blend of...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)One of the handful of scriptwriters who consistently produced quality drama during American TV's Golden Age of the 1950s, Rod Serling demonstrated an interest in SF themes as early as 1956, when he adapted Pat Frank's...
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From:St. James Guide to Science Fiction Writers (4th ed.)Dean R. Koontz's best science fiction was written before 1980; since then he more properly can be called a writer of horror novels. His best work is a convincing amalgam of sympathetic characters and quirky plots, but...
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From:New Formations (Issue 98) Peer-ReviewedThis article argues for an expanded conception of automation's 'explicability'. When it comes to topics as topical and shot through with multifarious anxieties as automation, it is, I argue, insufficient to rely on a...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRobopocalypse (2011) is a novel by American science fiction writer, Daniel H. Wilson, which involves a war between humans and robots. As we are living in an era with technological advances, this is a good reason to...
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From:Romance Notes (Vol. 60, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEste artículo se centra en la voz emergente, provocadora y diferente de una joven poeta catalana, Raquel Santanera (1991), y en las dimensiones políticas, éticas e ideológicas que conforman su obra poética, especialmente...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 36, Issue 1)ONCE OR TWICE A YEAR FRANCE'S NATIONAL Museum of Technology, on the nondescript rue Vaucanson in Paris, announces a special demonstration. On the second floor, at the end of a corridor of antique steam engines and...
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From:Hollins Critic (Vol. 57, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLove, Robot. By Margaret Rhee. Brooklyn, New York: The Operating System, 2017. $18.00 (pa.) When I first picked up Love, Robot, Margaret Rhee's debut collection of poetry, the contrast between the mechanical arm...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6054)In an alternative 1982, our narrator, Charlie, has just purchased a limited-edition robot, Adam, "the first truly viable manufactured human with plausible intelligence and looks". Upstairs, Charlie's neighbour, Miranda,...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 6152)Since its launch last month, the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction has provided us with a renewed sense of the future's past. Edited by Jesse Sheidlower, and originating in a project intended to expand the OED's...