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

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  October 29, 2006 ;     700+ words ......existence of science fiction? Could engineers...1902 pioneering science-fiction film "A Trip...on a story by Jules Verne? And what about...possible without science fiction? All scientific...'s technically science fiction. If you look...Ray Bradbury, ...

COLUMN: A geek pays tribute to science fiction

University Wire;  March 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Clarke, the renowned science fiction writer, died at his home...the pantheon of great science fiction Writers along with the...K. Dick, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Ray Bradbury. The...monumental influence of science fiction on science in particular...before, ...

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...

How "hard sf" keeps the science in science fiction. Charles Sheffield

The Washington Post;  April 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ......by defining science fiction -- and then...you're wrong. Science fiction consists of...will be not science fiction, but fiction...you think it's science fiction. Like many an upstart, science fiction is apt to claim...arguably science fiction, ...

Humanism, science fiction, and fairy tales.(Is There a Need for Fantasy?)

Free Inquiry;  June 22, 1995 ;     700+ words ......transcendental temptation through science fiction rather than religion. The science fiction history The World Beyond the Hill - Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence...the transcendental nature of science fiction. The following is largely based...the origin ...

'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...

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...

Reaching the Outer Limits: Science Fiction in the Library

Feliciter;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Gernsback, one of science fiction's early champions...which the World Science Fiction Society hands out...achievement in science fiction, was named after...as H.G. Wells, Jules Verne and Edgar Allan...and readers of science fiction who would be ...

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 ......no starting point for science fiction. There is no one novel...or Edgar Allen Poe, or Jules Verne. Gary Westfahl has nominated...as the true father of science fiction. Still others (including...have come to identify as science fiction. What part of Frankenstein...come ...

Loving the alien: science fiction. (annual convention held in Glasgow,...

The Economist (US);  September 2, 1995 ;     700+ words ......thus establish science fiction as a mass-market...respectable sub-genre of science fiction--a sub-genre that...speculation about science fiction itself. When some...in Glasgow for science fiction's annual world...of mass-market science fiction. Writing ...