The Science (Fiction) of Life.(Periodical review)

Extrapolation;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Issue of Biography on Life Writing and Science Fiction. Vol. 30, No. 1 (Winter...The juxtaposition life writing and science fiction does not, after all...the nexus between science fiction and life writing than that of artificial...

THE TRUTH IS IN HERE; CONSUMING PASSIONS Rog Peyton tells Jo Ind about his...

The Birmingham Post (England);  March 29, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Science fiction is a term as incomprehensible to...press and told them he was selling science fiction, fantasy and horror. The journalist...appreciate the distinction between science fiction and sci-fi. Apparently, sci-fi is...

COMMENTARY: Science fiction an epic genre

University Wire;  February 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ......conscious minds in "Blade Runner." Science fiction can seem a little ridiculous, but...negative stereotyping. She began writing science fiction during her undergraduate studies in economics. "I've always wanted to write science fiction," she said. "It occurred to me in...

'Saving the world through science fiction'.

Journal-World (Lawrence, Kansas);  July 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Skiffy. That's how some prominent science fiction writers jeeringly pronounce...lot of people still think of science fiction as robots and ray guns, says Christopher McKitterick. Yet science fiction these days is such a diverse...

Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction.(Book Review)

Extrapolation;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005...Every time I've taught a course on science fiction, I've thought it would be useful to...Speculations on Speculation: Theories of Science Fiction, edited by Gunn and Matthew Candelaria...

Saving science fiction

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  July 3, 2005 ;     700+ words ......lived in the future. Beginning in science fiction's "Golden Age," Gunn has written or...Robert Heinlein and Theodore Sturgeon. "Science fiction is the literature of change," says...Editor) John Campbell used to say, 'Science fiction is practice in a no- practice zone...

Science fiction & scientific literacy: incorporating science fiction...

The Science Teacher;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...The term science fiction has become synonymous, in the...bothers those who know that in good science fiction the science is often to be taken...most common classroom uses of science fiction is for students to pick out flaws...

COLUMN: A geek pays tribute to science fiction

University Wire;  March 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Wednesday, Arthur C. Clarke, the renowned science fiction writer, died at his home in Colombo...often placed in the pantheon of great science fiction Writers along with the likes of Isaac...considering the monumental influence of science fiction on science in particular and society...

REVIEw OF CRITICAL THEORY AnD SCIEnCE FICTIOn

Femspec;  December 31, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Carl Freedman. Critical Theory and Science Fiction. Hanover, MA: Wesleyan University...Freedman's dense work on "classic" modern science fiction, what it's about and what it's supposed...fictional form we think we recognize as science fiction. His Critical Theory and Science ...

University program blasting off to save science fiction

AP Worldstream;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......lived in the future. Beginning in science fiction's "Golden Age," Gunn has written or...Robert Heinlein and Theodore Sturgeon. "Science fiction is the literature of change," says...Editor) John Campbell used to say, 'Science fiction is practice in a no-practice zone...

Imagine that -- Science Fiction Museum in Seattle lets you go where sci-fi...

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  October 29, 2006 ;     700+ words ......happened without the existence of science fiction? Could engineers have designed and...thinking about the 1902 pioneering science-fiction film "A Trip to the Moon," which was...Could that have been possible without science fiction? All scientific developments begin...

IN NEAR FUTURE, SCIENCE FICTION EXPERIENCE.(Life and Arts)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 18, 2003 ;     700+ words ......The Seattle billionaire will turn science fiction into reality with the construction...January. Opening in summer 2004, the Science Fiction Experience, or SFX, will be a multilevel...shrine to Allen's lifelong love of science fiction art, literature, movies and memorabilia...

On the origins of genre.(science fiction)

Extrapolation;  December 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ...There is no starting point for science fiction. There is no one novel that marks...Hugo Gernsback as the true father of science fiction. Still others (including myself) have...all that we have come to identify as science fiction. What part of Frankenstein, for instance...

Science fiction and the playing fields of Eaton.(J. Lloyd Eaton)(Critical...

Extrapolation;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......the J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, long held...scholars as they analyzed works of science fiction and fantasy at the podium and fielded...that occurred in May, 2005, at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle, and I now have...

WHATEVER HAPPENED: SCIENCE-FICTION ARTIST KELLY FREAS?(LOCAL)

The Virginian Pilot;  November 19, 2001 ;     700+ words ......VIRGINIAN-PILOT\ In March 1987, when legendary science fiction artist and illustrator Frank Kelly...prestigious Hugo Award, the World Science Fiction Society's equivalent of the Oscar...Kelly Freas was 8, he was hooked on science fiction. At 79, he still is. The son of two...