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The book collects fifty novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Asimov. The book is organized as a "Glossary of Terms Frequently Used in Science Fiction Stories," terms "science fictionish rather than scientific" that are "not generally found in ordinary reference books [or] scientific ...
Pages in category "Characters in written science fiction" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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The book contains eight essays on the history of science fiction, eleven thematic essays on how different topics relate to science fiction, and 250 entries on various science fiction subgenres, authors, works, and motifs. It received positive reviews, with critics finding it to be well-researched and useful for students in particular.
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
The novels are "stand-alone"; they do not share any characters and do not form a strict chronological series. The later novels are not sequels to the earlier ones. They nonetheless tell a story of space exploration. [10] James Gifford wrote "It is not often recognized that [the juveniles] are a reasonably consistent 'Future History' of their ...
Z for Zachariah is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Robert C. O'Brien, which was published posthumously in 1974. The name Robert C. O'Brien was the pen name used by Robert Leslie Conly.
[17] In a book on early women science fiction writers, Eric Davin noted that all of her stories focus on "the search for community and communication," a theme that many women's science fiction stories from the time share. [8]: 288 Henderson's years as a school teacher helped her to write believable child characters. [18]