Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This article is part of a series on the: Culture of the United States; Society; History; Language; People. race and ethnicity; Religion; Arts and literature; Architecture
It is not normally used to describe magazines mainly or entirely of criticism or media related material (see Category:Science fiction-related magazines), nor comics (see Category:Comic books), nor for amateur magazines (see Category:Science fiction fanzines); however, by long tradition, magazines of written fantasy are so described.
The following year, Campbell finally achieved his goal of getting rid of the word "Astounding" in the magazine's title, changing it to Analog Science Fact/Science Fiction. The "/" in the title was often replaced by a symbol of Campbell's devising, resembling an inverted U pierced by a horizontal arrow and meaning "analogous to".
The first science fiction comic was the gag cartoon Mr. Skygack, from Mars by A.D. Condo, which debuted in newspapers in 1907. [1] [2] The first non-humorous science fiction comic strip, Buck Rogers, appeared in 1929, [3] and was based on a story published that year in Amazing Stories.
Aurealis was launched in September 1990 [1] to provide a market for speculative fiction writers, with a particular emphasis on raising the profile of Australian authors. In October 2011, the magazine became a monthly e-publication (published every month except January and December).
"Surface Tension" is a science fiction short story by American writer James Blish, originally published in the August 1952 of Galaxy Science Fiction. As collected in Blish's The Seedling Stars, it was revised to incorporate material from his earlier story "Sunken Universe", published in Super Science Stories in 1942. [1]
New Worlds was a British science fiction magazine that began in 1936 as a fanzine called Novae Terrae. John Carnell, who became Novae Terrae ' s editor in 1939, renamed it New Worlds that year.
Since the days of ancient Rome, the concept of communicating vessels has been used for indoor plumbing, via aquifers and lead pipes. Water will reach the same level in all parts of the system, which acts as communicating vessels, regardless of what the lowest point is of the pipes – although in practical terms the lowest point of the system depends on the ability of the plumbing to withstand ...