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

The Birmingham Post (England);  March 29, 2000 ;   Ind, Jo;   787 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...

Octavia Butler: Black America's first lady of science fiction

Michigan Chronicle;  April 26, 1994 ;   Robert E. McTyre;   471 words ......Michigan Chronicle 04-26-1994 Octavia Butler: Black America's first lady of science fiction. By Robert E. McTyre VIRTUAL...a genre waiting for an Octavia Butler to happen. For further information about Octavia Butler's appearance call (313...

'Saving the world through science fiction'.

Journal-World (Lawrence, Kansas);  July 7, 2006 ;     787 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 ;   Harris-Fain, Darren;   787 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 ;   David Twiddy Associated Press;   787 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 ;   Czerneda, Julie E.;   787 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...

Octavia Butler, A Lonely, Bright Star Of the Sci-Fi Universe [Correction...

The Washington Post;  February 28, 2006 ;   Marcia Davis;   787 words ......been like to be Octavia Butler? There she was...wanted to write science fiction, of all things...puzzled. How could science fiction be set on a plantation? Octavia Butler showed them...eventually won science fiction's most prestigious...But that was ...

COLUMN: A geek pays tribute to science fiction

University Wire;  March 21, 2008 ;   Steven T. Cupps;   735 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 ;   M, Janice;   787 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 ...

Octavia Butler 1947-2006

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  April 1, 2006 ;   Anonymous;   311 words ......Negroes can't be writers." Octavia Butler, the award-winning science fiction author, died in late...screenwriting program headed by science fiction legend Harlan Ellison...bills. In the 1970s, science fiction publishers did not see...

University program blasting off to save science fiction

AP Worldstream;  July 1, 2005 ;   DAVID TWIDDY, Associated Press Writer;   787 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...

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

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 18, 2003 ;   Stout, Gene;   774 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 ;   Kincaid, Paul;   787 words ......no starting point for science fiction. There is no one novel...as the true father of science fiction. Still others (including...come to identify as science fiction. What part of Frankenstein...Book of the New Sun, or Octavia Butler's Parable of the Talents...come to ...

Science Fiction Writer Octavia Butler, 58

The Washington Post;  February 28, 2006 ;   Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb;   787 words ...Octavia Butler, 58, one of the country's leading science fiction writers who as an African...the mostly white and male science fiction sphere, Ms. Butler appreciated...a senior manager at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame...

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

Extrapolation;  March 22, 2006 ;   Westfahl, Gary;   787 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...