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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 .
Arcot, Wade and Morey – scientist-inventors in science fiction stories by John W. Campbell The Baltimore Gun Club in From the Earth to the Moon – three of its wealthy members (Victor Barbicane, Stuyvesant Nicholl, Ben Sharpe) build a giant gun which launches an occupied capsule to the Moon
Science fiction scholars study science fiction to better understand it and its relationship to science, technology, politics, other genres, and culture-at-large. [216] Science fiction studies began around the turn of the 20th century, but it was not until later that science fiction studies solidified as a discipline with the publication of the ...
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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.
[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]