Article: Frederick Clarke, science fiction scholar

Article: Virtual learning Oak Park school tests new kind of ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  February 16, 2000 ;     625 words ... ... spaceship to grasp geography in a three-dimensional way. While that might be the stuff of science fiction for most people, it's reality for students at Oak Park's Lincoln School. The school is the first elementary school in the country to house ...

Article: Oak Park no jungle, but `Tarzan' began there
Chicago Sun-Times;  August 31, 2000 ;     516 words ... ... home on 414 Augusta in Oak Park, they were told Edgar ... Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest are ... grandfather of modern science fiction will be placed at the ... lived in several homes in Oak Park before settling in California ...

Article: Here's what happened when Borders came to Oak Park
Park Ridge Herald-Advocate (IL);  January 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Magic Tree Bookstore on Oak Park Avenue. Barbara's ... Tree Bookstore, 141 N. Oak Park Ave., said her store ... year-olds, teens and science fiction fans. "We really relate ... store's opening. The Oak Park area fit into the target ...

Article: 'Hemingway Hoax' author comes to Oak Park
Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL);  June 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... in 1990. Known best of a long list of science fiction books, Haldeman combines speculation ... 21, at the Hemingway Museum, 200 N. Oak Park Ave. His program will be based on a ... The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park will host its 17th annual Hemingway birthday ...

Article: Oak Park Broncos win regional crown
Forest Leaves (River Forest, IL);  July 31, 2002 ;     700+ words ...STAFF WRITER The Oak Park Bronco (12-year-olds) team won the Rockford Regional title the hard way. Oak Park advanced out of the loser's bracket ... Sunday afternoon. The title advanced Oak Park to the North Zone Tournament in Joliet ...

Article: Science fiction lure.(Arts & Entertainment)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  July 5, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... lived in the future. Beginning in science fiction's "Golden Age," Gunn has written ... 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 ...

Article: science fiction
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...science fiction literary genre in which a background ... integral part of the story. Although science fiction is a form of fantastic literature ... war, invasions from outer space. Science fiction is generally considered to have ...