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The list includes technologies that were first posited in non-fiction works before their appearance in science fiction and subsequent invention, such as ion thruster. To avoid repetitions, the list excludes film adaptations of prior literature containing the same predictions, such as " The Minority Report ".
The book contains the following stories (magazines in which the stories originally appeared given in parentheses): "The Same to You Doubled" (Playboy 1970/3) "Cordle to Onion to Carrot" (Playboy 1969/12) "The Petrified World" (If 1968/2) "Game: First Schematic" "Doctor Zombie and His Little Furry Friends" "The Cruel Equations"
"Liar!" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and was reprinted in the collections I, Robot (1950) and The Complete Robot (1982). It was Asimov's third published positronic robot story.
"Reason" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in the April 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and collected in I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990). It is part of Asimov's Robot series, and was the second of Asimov's positronic robot stories to see publication.
"A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...
"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.
After several successful experiments popping popcorn kernels and exploding a whole egg, Spencer built the first microwave oven, which was a rudimentary metal box with a magnetron inside, to heat ...
Pages in category "Science fiction short stories" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 490 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .