Science Fact And Science Fiction An Encyclopedia: Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings.Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the Encyclopedia is not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow and counter flow of influences, including how fictional representations of science affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored and, because science is an international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.

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The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Century: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of the 20th Century

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Science Fact And Science Fiction An Encyclopedia: Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings.Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the Encyclopedia is not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow and counter flow of influences, including how fictional representations of science affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored and, because science is an international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.

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Practicing Science Fiction: Practicing Science Fiction: Critical Essays on Writing, Reading and Teaching the Genre by Karen Hellekson, Craig B. Jacobsen, Patrick B. Sharp, and Lisa Yaszek

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The Secret History of Science Fiction: Genre-bending anthologists Kelly and Kessel (Rewired) select a wide range of post-1970 stories by authors who occupy the nebulous land between literary and genre. Offerings like Margaret Atwood's Homelanding, a vignette about alien life, and Steven Millhauser's The Wizard of West Orange, which conclusively demonstrates that any story centering around a new science is science fiction, make it clear that nongenre authors have been writing stories that appropriate many genre tropes. But while the title will attract genre fans, li-fi readers who might otherwise be drawn in by T.C. Boyle and Don DeLillo may well be put off by the Tachyon imprint and the words science fiction, undermining the editors' assertion that the walls that separate the mainstream from science fiction are, in fact, crumbling

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Science Fiction & Fantasy eBook Master Collection A-E: This collection is a compilation of many other collections, including the 13130 collection and all updates , and is fairly complete as of 2011. The folder format is by author: Lastname, First. You will NOT find files within folders within folders 10 deep; you will also NOT find every file individually zipped or rarred, inside a rar within a rar and then the folder rarred for good measure. Updates will NOT consist of thousands of new ebooks in one folder requiring you to sort each into its proper folder. Updates will retain the same folder format so all you'll have to do is a SINGLE drag and drop to update your master collection

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The Best Japanese Science Fiction Stories: A compilation of 13 symbolic, psychologically based stories written by 10 of the most talented Japanese science fiction writers, including Shinichi Hoshi, Ryo Hanmura, and Sakyo Komatsu. This well written, engaging science fiction collection, flooded with strange imagination and striking plots, and inspired by the fearsome uneasy future, is a book that should grab the imagination of young adult sci-fi enthusiast

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Science Fiction And Fantasy Artists Of The Twentieth Century: This biographical dictionary presents information on 400 artists whose influence and illustrative contributions to the fields of science fiction and fantasy literature helped define the 20th century as the "Science Fiction Century" and helped established science fiction and fantasy as unique and identifiable genres. In addition to providing basic, inclusive biographical data on venerable artists from Chris Achilleos to John Michael Zeleznik, each entry also includes a bibliographic listing of each artist's published work in the genre

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Science Fiction & Fantasy: This collection is a compilation of many other collections, including the 13130 collection and all updates 1-15, and is fairly complete as of Feb 2009. The folder format is by author: Lastname, First. You will NOT find files within folders within folders 10 deep; you will also NOT find every file individually zipped or rarred, inside a rar within a rar and then the folder rarred for good measure (one bloody collection took hours to unpack!$%#). Updates will NOT consist of thousands of new ebooks in one folder requiring you to sort each into its proper folder. Updates will retain the same folder format so all you'll have to do is a SINGLE drag and drop to update your master collection. There are 1410 authors, and maybe 15,000-20,000 works

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Great Science Fiction: Complete Collection Of Every Great Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Authors

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