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The book collects fifty novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, with an introduction by Asimov. The book is organized as a "Glossary of Terms Frequently Used in Science Fiction Stories," terms "science fictionish rather than scientific" that are "not generally found in ordinary reference books [or] scientific ...
The Scouting stories, originally printed in the Boy Scouts of America magazine Boys' Life, were part of Heinlein's effort to diversify beyond pulp science fiction. [20] Farmer in the Sky, which also had a strong connection to Scouting, was serialized in Boys' Life under the title "Satellite Scout". Heinlein considered writing another Boy Scout ...
Worlds of If Science Fiction: 1962 2430 A.D. Isaac Asimov: Think (IBM magazine) 1970 A Boy's Best Friend: Isaac Asimov: Boy's Life: 1975 A Braver Thing: Charles Sheffield: 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 ...
Tom Swift and His Motor Cycle (1910), the first Tom Swift book. Tom Swift is the main character of six series of American juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasize science, invention, and technology. Inaugurated in 1910, the sequence of series comprises more than 100 volumes.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Z for Zachariah is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Robert C. O'Brien, which was published posthumously in 1974. The name Robert C. O'Brien was the pen name used by Robert Leslie Conly.
The Colossal Camera Calamity [19] (04 Jun 2015; based on the CBBC TV series, not part of the original book series) It's school-photo time, which is the worst time of year for Hank Zipzer. No matter what he does, he always ends up looking like he's just seen Miss Adolf dancing. Bleurg! This year, he's determined to get it right.
Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, An English-Language Selection, 1949–1984 is a nonfiction book by David Pringle, published by Xanadu in 1985 [1] [2] with a foreword by Michael Moorcock. Primarily, the book comprises 100 short essays on the selected works, covered in order of publication, without any ranking.