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1 December 1951. " The Fun They Had " is a science fiction story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in a children's newspaper in 1951 and was reprinted in the February 1954 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Earth Is Room Enough (1957), 50 Short Science Fiction Tales (1960), and The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973 ...
Life. " It's a Good Life " is a short story by American writer Jerome Bixby, written in 1953. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, as one of the 20 best short stories in science fiction published prior to the Nebula Award. The story was first published in Star Science ...
The Veldt (short story) " The Veldt " is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Bradbury. Originally appearing as " The World the Children Made " in the September 23, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man.
Science Fiction Stories: 1956 A Year in the Linear City: Paul Di Filippo: 2002 All Summer in a Day: Ray Bradbury: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 1954 All You Zombies: Robert A. Heinlein: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 1959 Allamagoosa: Eric Frank Russell: Analog Science Fiction: 1955 And I Awoke and Found Me Here on ...
2001: a Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. Written concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001 is just one of author Arthur C. Clarke's massive array of sci-fi novels. Clarke was so prolific ...
A mother and daughter, Maureen and 35-year-old Caitlin, live through the last few months of Earth's existence. Maureen and her late husband Harry are described as having substantial astrophysical knowledge. Caitlin, an astrophysicist herself, has been involved with the recent discovery of the Big Rip, a field of dark energy that is essentially ...
Reception. [] "That Only a Mother" falls into a category of mid-century science fiction writing often referred to as the "housewife heroine" story, works that deal explicitly with domestic themes and the experiences of women. Stories of this type were often controversial because while some editors praised their literary qualities, others viewed ...
Series. Robot series. —. Robot AL-76 Goes Astray. " Robbie " is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was the first of Asimov's positronic robot stories. In 2016, "'Robbie" won a retrospective 1941 Hugo Award for best short story. [1] ". Robbie" was the fourteenth story written by Asimov, and the ninth to be published.