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Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell 's Islands of Space in the November issue of Astounding Science Fiction. [ 4 ][ 5 ][ 1 ] The complementary term soft ...
The Dead and the Gone. This World We Live In. The Shade of the Moon. Life As We Knew It is a young adult science fiction novel by American author Susan Beth Pfeffer, first published in 2006 by Harcourt Books. It is the first book in The Last Survivors series, followed by The Dead and the Gone. The book follows a teenage girl named Miranda and ...
Megacity. Pastoral science fiction —science fiction set in rural, bucolic, or agrarian worlds, either on Earth or on Earth-like planets, in which advanced technologies are downplayed. Seasteading and ocean colonization. Pirate utopia. Reality Television. Space colonization. Colonization of the Moon. Ecumenopolis. Pantropy.
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 ...
U.S. television science fiction is a popular genre of television in the United States that has produced many of the best-known and most popular science fiction shows in the world. Most famous of all, and one of the most influential science-fiction series in history, is the iconic Star Trek and its various spin-off shows, which comprise the Star ...
Asimov's Science Fiction: 1990 A Cabin on the Coast: Gene Wolfe: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 1984 A Can of Paint: A. E. van Vogt: Analog Science Fiction: 1944 A Clean Escape: John Kessel: Asimov's Science Fiction: 1985 A Colder War: Charles Stross: Spectrum SF: 2000 A Dream of Armageddon: H. G. Wells: Black and White: 1901 A ...
Dragon's Egg is a 1980 hard science fiction novel by American writer Robert L. Forward.In the story, Dragon's Egg is a neutron star with a surface gravity 67 billion times that of Earth, and inhabited by cheela, intelligent creatures the size of sesame seeds who evolve, live, and think a million times faster than humans.
Armada is a science fiction novel by Ernest Cline, published on July 14, 2015 by Crown Publishing Group (a division of Penguin Random House). [1] [2] The story follows a teenager who plays an online video game about defending against an alien invasion, only to find out that the game is a simulator to prepare him and people around the world for defending against an actual alien invasion.