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

The Birmingham Post (England);  March 29, 2000 ;     700+ words ......you appreciate the distinction between science fiction and sci-fi. Apparently, sci-fi is not a neutral abbreviation of science fiction. It is, in science fiction circles, a derogatory term used to apply either to bad science fiction or to science fiction ...

Science Fiction Fandom

Journal of American Culture;  July 1, 1996 ;     279 words ......It focuses on fans, most of whom read science fiction, collect it, read...professional ranks. Science Fiction Fandom, however, indicates that most fans, if they write...incomprehensible to most non-fans. Science Fiction Fandom is interesting...

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

Extrapolation;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......conference, Who Governs Science Fiction?, which later appeared...control the genre of science fiction. I discussed Hugo...introduced the term science fiction to the world and...the writers and fans of the science fiction community, who have...which determines ...

Reaching the Outer Limits: Science Fiction in the Library

Feliciter;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......of any sort of science fiction has not necessarily...librarians into fans. Booksellers...librarians regard science fiction as a form of...robots and what fans call "BEMs" (...me, but some science fiction fans look downright...

Next Stop, Twilight Zone? Science Fiction Fans Gather to Ponder A Future...

The Washington Post;  August 10, 1998 ;     700+ words ......at the 56th World Science Fiction Convention. Did Shakespeare...Greeley, Colo. But at science fiction conventions, "I've...they're interested. Science fiction readers are always...readers, editors, fans, critics. The schedule...from "Star Wars." Is science ...

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

The Virginian Pilot;  November 19, 2001 ;     700+ words ......1987, when legendary science fiction artist and illustrator...dozens of devoted fans converged for a send-o...Hugo Award, the World Science Fiction Society's equivalent...Coast contingent of fans. The move put him...he was hooked on science fiction. At 79, he still ...

Science in Science Fiction

Talk of the Nation (NPR);  November 20, 1998 ;     700+ words ......FANTASY WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA; SCIENCE FICTION WRITER: My pleasure. Glad to be here...those. NIMOY: I have a long history with science fiction. My earliest interest was in a series...that. NIMOY: Exactly. And my work in science fiction is approaching the 50th year. I ...

Our grand old man of science fiction is gone

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  October 12, 2006 ;     577 words ...Did you know one of science fiction's oldest pioneers, longest- running fans and most beloved...itself. Much of it was science fiction, but a lot of it...he was a winner of science fiction's highest honor...wasn't attending a science fiction convention, which...news ...

For the extended family and the universe: Judith Merril and science...

Biography;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......n's world of modern science fiction, first in New York...talented band of science fiction fans and budding writers...and began writing science fiction. As a marginal genre...limited readership, science fiction in the atomic era...in the American science ...

Science fiction is fun for fen

Chicago Sun-Times;  August 27, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Bova readily understands that the term "science fiction" also encompasses tomorrow's extrapolations...and many other forms of the genre. "Science fiction, in all its subcategories, accounts for...said, has "hurt the field of genuine science fiction enormously." He said: "People read ...

The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction. .(Book Review)

Extrapolation;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......importance of the seventies to feminist science fiction has been convincingly demonstrated...just such an endeavor. For Larbalestier, science fiction is not only a body of literature but...how the battle-of-the-sexes has defined science fiction since the early days of pulp sf. ...

Alien world close to home; Sci-fi fan and blogger Neil Macdonald meets...

Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);  August 27, 2008 ;     700+ words ......music and of course, culture, but science fiction? You may be surprised to know the...two Doctor Whos - it also hosts the Science Fiction Hub at the University of Liverpool...Gernsback, the man who coined the phrase 'science fiction'. Science Fiction librarian Andy ...

SAM MOSKOWITZ, 76, SCIENCE FICTION AUTHORITY,...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  April 28, 1997 ;     495 words ......Moskowitz's main interest in life was science fiction, a subject not offered in college in...Wells and Jules Verne had been writing science fiction since the 19th century, it had not been...measure of Mr. Moskowitz's standing as a science-fiction scholar that Gernsback hired him ...

Williamson considered one of science fiction's greats.

Portales News-Tribune (Portales, NM);  November 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ......a large shadow in the science fiction community. Terms and...often had their roots in science fiction. Williamson coined or...In an interview with Science Fiction Weekly when he was 94...closest friends and best fans, the eventual Grand Master of science fiction ...

Business Girls and Beset Men in Pulp Science Fiction and Science Fiction...

Femspec;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......July 1931 New York City science fiction fan Arnold Wolf wrote...the earliest American science fiction fans thought through changing...modernizing society using science fiction motifs. Wolf's desire...and doctors, as well as science fiction writers and ...