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Part 16. Science Fiction "The Boom in Science Fiction" (complete essay from Asimov on Science Fiction (1981)) "The Ring of Evil" (complete essay from Asimov on Science Fiction) Part 17. Miscellaneous Excerpt from Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts (1979) (about cities) "The Delight of Uncertainty" (introduction to Isaac Asimov Presents Superquiz 2 ...
On the Writing of Speculative Fiction" is an essay by American science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was first published in 1947, also appearing in Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy: 20 Dynamic Essays By the Field's Top Professionals in 1993, and The Nonfiction of Robert Heinlein: Volume I in 2011. [1]
Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia is a 2021 reference work written by science fiction scholar Gary Westfahl and published by ABC-Clio/Greenwood.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.
In Search of Wonder: Essays on Modern Science Fiction is a collection of critical essays by American writer Damon Knight.Most of the material in the original version of the book was originally published between 1952 and 1955 in various science fiction magazines including Infinity Science Fiction, Original SF Stories, and Future SF.
Uncertainty in science, and science in general, may be interpreted differently in the public sphere than in the scientific community. [21] This is due in part to the diversity of the public audience, and the tendency for scientists to misunderstand lay audiences and therefore not communicate ideas clearly and effectively. [21]
Science, Numbers, and I From Earth to Heaven is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov . It was the fifth of a series of books collecting essays from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction .
The book's review in Nature closed with: "Uncertainty is an exquisite book, especially because it neither demonizes nor canonizes a great scientist and troubled man." [8] The book's review in Science closed by stating the book "is a powerful demonstration of the potential of social history in scientific biography." [27]
"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 ...