Science Fiction
Astronautics is unique among the sciences in that it has its roots in an art form. For nearly 400 years space travel existed only in the minds of those faithful writers who kept the to...
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Science Fiction
From its beginnings as a literary genre science fiction has displayed ambivalence toward the ethical implications of scientific discovery and technological development. As a form of li...
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This book leads young writers step-by-step through the writing of a science-fiction story. This book will help students sort and arrange the raw materials that are around them to create an end pro...
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Submitted for your approval: A 52-year-old man _ an overworked man, a man of words _ receives an advance copy of an upcoming science fiction series from ABC.Warily, he fires up the DVD player, expe...
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Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Alfred A. Knopf, 288 pages, $24.In prose as bland as institutional pudding, Kazuo Ishiguro has compiled an unsettling horror story. It's so constructed, or rigge...
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American author (b. June 22, 1947,
Pasadena, Calif.
—d. Feb. 24, 2006,
Lake Forest Park, Wash.
), was chiefly noted for her science-fiction novels about future societies and superhuman powe...
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Polish science-fiction author (b. Sept. 12, 1921, Lwow, Pol. [now
Lviv, Ukraine
]—d. March 27, 2006,
Krakow, Pol.
), wrote both traditional science fiction and dark allegorical tales that v...
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Online games give players roles like warriors, space explorers and wizards. Now, there's an exciting new profession: pawnbroker."Entropia Universe," a science-fiction game whose currency is convert...
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