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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 86, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedScience fiction works differentially from other written categories, particularly those categories traditionally called literary.... It has its own particular ways of making sense out of language. To ignore ... these...
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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSStay Slim for Good, by Weiner, Zalman Amit, and E. Ann Sutherland (New York: Walker, 1976; Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1976).Stop Smoking for Good, by Weiner, Amit, and Sutherland (New...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhen Joss Whedon's science fiction television series, Firefly, premiered in September, 2002, there was no denying it was a Western. In succeeding frames of the opening credits a pistol cocked with a threatening click;...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 84, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe commonly accepted academic definition of science fiction was formulated by Darko Suvin in the 1970s, but now there is a much-needed revision of his ideas. But does it go for enough? This is probably one of the...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 84, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBoth classical and current fiction include mathematics as a literary device. As commonly used in science fiction, topology includes the study of spatial dimension, including the arcane Fourth Dimension, famously...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 139, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIf at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it. --Albert Einstein I long dismissed science fiction as fairytale foolishness banged out by hacks for barely literate adolescents. Such...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersOctavia Butler said in an interview in Science-Fiction Writers that she "began writing fantasy and science fiction because these seemed to be the genres in which I could be freest, most creative." She went on to say that...
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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSEdible Wild Plants of Nova Scotia (West Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia: Eastern Shore Publishing Collective, 1976).Edible Wild Plants of the Maritimes (West Chezzetcook, Nova Scotia: Wooden...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersDouglas Adams is best known for his first novel, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), a blend of satire, deadpan humor, and absurdity. But he has been writing comedy for over two decades, proving immensely...
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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSEn hommage aux araignées (Montreal: L'Actuelle, 1974); republished as L'Etranger sous la ville (Montreal: Editions Paulines, 1986).Der Träumer in der Zitadelle, German translation by Otto...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Arthur C. Clarke writes adventures of the near and far future, in which men seek knowledge and explore new environments. The most notable aspect of his fiction is the perfect welding of the expository passages,...
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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKDreams of an Unseen Planet (New York: Arbor House, 1986; London: Grafton House, 1990); revised edition (Victoria, British Columbia: Press Porcépic, 1989). OTHER"Making History," in Howe...
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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSNeuromancer (New York: Ace, 1984; London: Gollancz, 1984).Burning Chrome (New York: Arbor House, 1986; London: Gollancz, 1986).Count Zero (New York: Arbor House, 1986; London: Gollancz,...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersWithin the genre of science fiction, Gene R. Wolfe has earned acclaim for both his short stories and his novels. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction notes that "though neither the most popular nor the most influential...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Howard Fast has written in virtually every genre—novels, plays, poems, filmscripts, critical essays and short stories—and in a number of subgenres of fiction, including science fiction, social satire, historical and...
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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSBloodshift (Toronto: Virgo Press, 1981; New York: Warner, 1990; London: Pan, 1992).Dreamland (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart/Bantam, 1986 [1985]; New York: Warner, 1991).Children of the...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)By the time it was published in book form H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, the best-known of his ``scientific romances,'' had already been serialized three times in very different, usually incomplete forms: as The Chronic...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersPhilip K. Dick was one of the most important and influential science fiction writers of the last 30 years, challenging readers with such themes as messianism, existentialism, confusion of identity, control of reality,...
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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSWho Knows One? (Toronto: Hawkshead Press, 1962).Within the Zodiac (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1964).Sunburst (Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1964; Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside,...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersAmerica's Grande Dame of science fiction, Ursula Le Guin had no easy start to her writing career. Publishers said her early work was neither one genre nor another, so despite its obvious merit, it couldn't be published....