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After lunch I met Veronica Hollinger, an editor for ''Science Fiction Studies'', Joe Haldeman, and Stephan R. Donaldson. The latter I heard read,

...k |chapter=Science Fiction and a World in Crisis |date=1974 |title=Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow |url= |location=New York |publisher=Harper and Row |pag ...|title=Star Maker: Olaf Stapledon’s Divine Tragedy |url= |journal=Science Fiction Studies |volume=8 |issue=3 |page=269 |ref=harv }}</ref> Plugging oneself in

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...the pictures. This is a rock-solid, harder-than-diamonds, [[w:Hard science fiction|''hard'' sf]]. My Kindle’s dictionary just shrugs when I try to look anyt

...seems always to be a central concern of his work: the limits of reason and science. Like his story “[[April 22, 1997|Reason]],” “Nightfall” shows how Science, itself, disrupts. “Nightfall” illustrates the contention between science and religion, or fact and belief. The scientists attempt to explain what wi

...was teaching my [[Short-Form Science Fiction, Fall 2019|short-form science fiction course]]? [[Category:Science Fiction]]

...can Dream. I think the premise is what makes this fantasy, but the science-fiction elements soon take center-stage as the our history begins to diverge with t

...great ''[[w:Twilight Zone|Twilight Zone]]'' episode. It’s really a science-fiction, horror story that has a simple mystery and a nice payoff at the end that c

...N 1011.01 || [[Short-Form Science Fiction, Fall 2019|Perspectives on Genre Fiction]] || MW 9:30-10:45 || CoAS-122 | 86228 || HUMN 4472.01 || [[Science Fiction, Fall 2019|Studies in Culture]] || {{F-Online}} || {{CNone|-}}

...|first=Donna |date=1990 |orig-year=1985 |chapter=A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s |chapter-url=https://archi [[Category:Science Fiction]]

...on writing. I have to agree. Therefore, my resolution is not to write more fiction (though I certainly will if I get the opportunity), but to get at least one

...see our mutual friend Tom. It’s cool because we can geek out about science fiction and Mailer.

...then. What else was a nerdy little kid to do but to read expansive science fiction and fantasy cycles? ...r center a demigod. I’ve discussed [[Toward a Science Fiction Epic|science fiction’s relationship to the epic]] before, so I don’t have to rehash the part

...ourselves in relation to the universe. Call the first relationship that of science and the latter that of philosophy. I understand that this distinction is wr ...ould be called a novel of golden age sf, where an almost romantic faith in science can solve the problems of the world and help humanity though their most dif

...his form than science fiction. This course will examine short-form science fiction in stories, television, and films.}} ...{{font|text=Research|font=Alegreya Sans SC}}: “[[w:Science fiction|Science Fiction]]” (you can start on Wikipedia) and bring what you find out to class for

...of Twentieth-Century Fiction |volume=Volume II: Twentieth-century American Fiction |chapter-url=https://grlucas.net/grl/Speculative_Fiction |url=https://www.g ...ald R. |title=‘It Might Not Be Unpleasant to Live’: The Transitional Short Fiction of Norman Mailer |url= |journal=The Mailer Review |volume=15 |issue= |date=

...but overall I guess I just wasn’t sure what I was reading. Was it science fiction? A political polemic? A metaphysical treatise? A bunch of related short sto [[Category:Science Fiction]]

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...lds both wonders and terrors that almost approaches ''Dune''-level science fiction. Like ''Dune'', I think part of what’s compelling about Reynolds’ world

...ns of my branching interest in technoculture. Most of it is on speculative fiction: Ballard, Dick, Cronenberg, Baudrillard, Haraway, cyborgs, The X-Files, and ...pecially the latter. There’s something akin to my fascination with science fiction, I think. I do even include some futurism in the New Media course.

...Soon came a stronger government, military, industry, and corporations—with Science leading the way—that vied for a slice of the USA. They provided security ...this seems to be the drive of Western civilization since its founding. Add science into the mix, and ''man’s'' ultimate achievement is also his ultimate thr

...which he served as president his senior year, and read fantasy and science fiction from an early age. While he did not excel as an academic, his interests in ...as got his first hint of literary studies in higher ed with a contemporary fiction course with Dr. Carole Cole. After trying a major in music, then a short-li

File:Lucaspix03.jpeg|Science fiction author Jack McDevitt

...man spirit.<ref>Originally entitled “Carl Sagan’s Vision: Toward a Science Fiction Epic” and published on Nov 10, 1998 @ 17:01.</ref> ...of human knowledge in politics, philosophy, philology, art, theology, and science because of a greater and more equal dissemination of knowledge. No longer w

...bably reminded me of a spaceship that I imagined out of one of the science fiction books I was reading at the time. To my young mind, that was a good enough r

...The need for '''digital natives''' who are fluent in discerning fact from fiction, truth from spin, scientific consensus from ideology has never been more ne ...1101, ENGL 1102, a sophomore literature survey, and a history or political science class. Subject matter would obviously be emphasized, but the research and w

* “Mailer’s Transitional Short Fiction.” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Long Branch, NJ, Jun 2022. * “[[October 23, 2018|Norman Mailer’s Short Fiction]].” The Norman Mailer Society Conference, Macon, GA, Oct 2018.

...ale was also one of the best. At first, I thought it was going all science-fiction on me, and I wasn’t sure about that direction. Also, I could see where it

Read more science fiction on [https://www.kurzweilai.net/ his site].

...is in {{c|Literary|literary studies}}, and I also write about {{c|Science Fiction|sf}}, {{c|New Media|new media}} (and {{c|Technoculture|technoculture}}), {{

...to]] is still seminal (excuse the word) to the study of new media. Science fiction is becoming the new reality. The dialectic of last century is tired. We nee ...ll this do to our humanistic endeavors of morality and ethics? Philosophy? Science? Religion? Art? Even these could be lost, as many other critics predict. Wh

...n” in my [[ENGL 1102]] class. It strikes me this time through as a science-fiction allegory where some humans have evolved and perhaps mutated into superior b

...ise you, but I often get asked “what’s your favorite novel?”—“what science fiction book should I read next?”—“what books did you use to teach such-and-s

...objects seem to be guided by a mathematically predictable physics, the new science did not explain the origin of these systems. The church could survive a cha ...m J. |date=2009 |chapter=Eutopia |title=The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction |editor1-last=Bould |editor1-first=Mark |editor2-last=Butler |editor2-first

...sing. Seriously, why in the world would they produce a high-budget science fiction television series based on a video game when they could, for example, devel

...rspace|cyberspace]].” The idea of plugging in to the machine was a science fiction trope popularized by the [[w:Cyberpunk|cyberpunks]], and it drove our first

...troubled skyways<ref>Interesting image, giving the song a bit of a science fiction-feel. What are these skyways and why are they troubled? In any case, it see

...s ''Teaching with Your Mouth Shut'' and Bruce Sterling’s (yes, the science fiction writer) ''Tomorrow Now'', and all left the impression that I should be rem

* Panel Chair, “From Vampires to Video Games: Cultural Anxiety and Science Fiction,” PCA/ACA, Atlanta, GA, Apr 2006 * Event Coordinator, Georgia Science Olympiad, 2005-2013

...t want to work on as your semester project {{crossreference|(see [[Science Fiction, Fall 2019/R1 Wikipedia Contributions|R1]])}}. You needn’t decide right n

...Solaristics is the space era’s equivalent of religion: faith disguised as science. . . . Solaristics is a revival of long-vanished myths, the expression o ...film adaptations of his novel, but their visions reflect revised views of science and technology’s influence on humanity.

...consciousness will be able to inhabit any body that we want it to. Science fiction? Perhaps, but that does not mean we can dismiss it as nonsense. Kurzweil is

...ything this summer, since summer is when I get caught up with some science fiction. Since I’m reading novels for work, I’ve been reading short stories for

...corching summer day than Alfred Bester’s “Fondly Fahrenheit.” This science fiction narrative uses the heat almost as if it’s a character with its own voliti

...l=https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/66/bredehoft.html |journal=Science Fiction Studies |volume=22 |issue= |date=July 1995 |page=252 |access-date=2019-12-3 ...of “Gernsback” might be explained away by semiotic ghosts, but, in a truly science-fictional theory, they might represent breeches by quantum realities that c

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...urreal and phantasmagoric. Both, however, use the accouterments of science fiction to comment on sf narratives and to illustrate the dangers of wandering unwa ...ntact with the ''other''. “Impossible Dreams” wears the clothes of science fiction, but ultimately it’s a postmodern love story that unites two unlikely peo

...er. I liked to watch television, listen to music, read fantasy and science fiction novels. I would much prefer staying awake all night to finish the latest [[

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