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Space travel, [1]: 69 [2]: 209–210 [3]: 511–512 or space flight[2]: 200–201 [4] (less often, starfaring or star voyaging[2]: 217, 220 ) is a science fiction theme that has captivated the public and is almost archetypal for science fiction. [4] Space travel, interplanetary or interstellar, is usually performed in space ships, and ...
Cities in Flight is a four-volume series of science fiction novels and short stories by American writer James Blish, originally published between 1950 and 1962, which were first known collectively as the "Okie" novels. The series features entire cities that are able to fly through space using an anti-gravity device, the spindizzy.
August 1954. " The Cold Equations " is a science fiction short story by American writer Tom Godwin (1915–1980), first published in Astounding Magazine in August 1954. In 1970, the Science Fiction Writers of America selected it as one of the best science-fiction short stories published before 1965, and it was therefore included in The Science ...
The Space Traders. "The Space Traders" is a science fiction short story by Derrick Bell. As a short story, was published in 1992. However it originated in a different form under the title "The Chronicles of the Space Traders" as part of his 1989 speeches republished twice in law journals in 1989 and 1990. [1][2] It was republished in the year ...
A Tenderfoot in Space: Robert A. Heinlein: Boys' Life: 1958 A Thousand Deaths (London short story) Jack London: 1899 A Toy for Juliette: Robert Bloch: Dangerous Visions: 1967 A Walk in the Sun (short story) Geoffrey A. Landis: Asimov's Science Fiction: 1991 A Work of Art: James Blish: Science Fiction Stories: 1956 A Year in the Linear City ...
The Skylark of Space is a science fiction novel by American writer Edward E. "Doc" Smith, written between 1915 and 1921 while Smith was working on his doctorate.Though the original idea for the novel was Smith's, he co-wrote the first part of the novel with Lee Hawkins Garby, the wife of his college classmate and later neighbor Carl Garby. [1]
0-8125-1001-1. OCLC. 24426024. N-Space is a collection of short stories by American science fiction author Larry Niven released in 1990. Some of the stories are set in Niven's Known Space universe. Also included are various essays, articles and anecdotes by Niven and others, excerpts from some of his novels, and an introduction by Tom Clancy.
The most prominent work of fiction dealing with the subject of terraforming Mars is the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (consisting of the novels Red Mars from 1992, Green Mars from 1993, and Blue Mars from 1996), [2] [3] [25] a hard science fiction story of a United Nations project wherein 100 carefully selected scientists are sent to ...