Article: Dateline: April 1926 (75 years ago).(publication of science fiction magazine Amazing Stories)(Brief Article)

Article: Tor Announces Its First Podcast - from the 65th World ...
PR Newswire;  September 5, 2007 ;     650 words ... ... announce its first ever podcast from the 65th World Science Fiction Convention in Yokohama, Japan this August ... the leading online destination for the Science Fiction community. The World Science Fiction Convention is an annual gathering of the ...

Article: Fifty-year party. (World Science Fiction ...
The Economist (US);  September 9, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... admired. It was the first World Science Fiction Convention. Fifty years on ... most notable is in scale. Science fiction is no longer restricted to ... forgotten by all in a day or so. Science-fiction conventions in general are ...

Article: "Back to the Future" receives award at the World ...
PR Newswire;  September 4, 1986 ;     467 words ... ... dramatic presentation Aug. 30 at the World Science Fiction Convention in Atlanta. The convention ... ConFederation," was the largest science-fiction gathering of the year. Other nominees for the Science Fiction Achievement Award in the film category ...

"This promising of great secrets": literature, ideas, and the ...
CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...I resent a lot of science fiction. This promising of great secrets ... Vonnegut has employed aspects of science fiction such as time travel, spaceships ... In his scathing 1965 essay "Science Fiction," he states: "I learned ...

Article: BIG BANGS ABOUND IN END-OF-WORLD SCIENCE ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  March 2, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Byline: Mark Graham ( When it comes to science fiction, my absolute favorites are end ... 275 pages, $22). Kunta Kinte? A science fiction author? You've got it, and, in ... he explains that he grew up reading science fiction, but that he missed not only black ...

Article: Fantastic fantasy and out-of-this-world science ...
Curriculum Review;  December 1, 2002 ;     475 words ...From cyberpunk to time travel, and from Tolkien to King, The Science Fiction and Fantasy Readers' Advisory will help put great novels into the hands of Young Adult fiction readers. After outlining the ins ...

Article: Machines all set to take over the world; Science ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... arguably become the first of a new breed of humans - a person who physically became part of The World Machine. After years of science fiction writers and futurologists speculating that man and machine would eventually become one, the Coventry-born academic has ...