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Dr. Franklin's Island is a young adult science fiction book by Ann Halam published in 2001. It is narrated in the first person. [1] Loosely based on H. G. Wells' 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, [2] it tells the story of three teenagers who end up on an island owned by Dr. Franklin, a brilliant but insane scientist, who wants to use them as specimens for his transgenic experiments.
"The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" is a 1969 science fiction short story by James Tiptree Jr. (a pen name for American psychologist Alice Sheldon). [1] The story was first published in Galaxy Science Fiction , [ 2 ] but has since been reprinted at least 44 times in various anthologies and publications, earning a position as one of the most ...
Dr. Stockstill A psychiatrist before the war, Stockstill later becomes a general practitioner. He attempts to treat Bluthgeld and Dangerfield. He attempts to treat Bluthgeld and Dangerfield. Mr. Austurias The West Marin school teacher, and an avid mushroom collector.
Dr Weston – A thick-set physicist, ruthless and arrogant, who mocks "classics and history and such trash" [2] in favour of the hard sciences. Dick Devine – Weston's accomplice who "was quite ready to laugh at Weston's solemn scientific idealism. He didn't give a damn, he said, for the future of the species or the meeting of two worlds." [3]
The earliest known use of the term "space marine" was by Bob Olsen in his short story "Captain Brink of the Space Marines" (Amazing Stories, Volume 7, Number 8, November 1932), a light-hearted work whose title is a play on the song "Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines", and in which the protagonists were marines of the "Earth Republic Space Navy" on mission to rescue celebrity twins from aliens ...
3001 follows the adventures of Frank Poole, the astronaut killed by the HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. One millennium later, Poole's freeze-dried body is discovered in the Kuiper belt by a comet-collecting space tug named the Goliath, and revived. Poole is taken home to learn about the Earth in the year 3001.
The Space Trilogy (also known as The Cosmic Trilogy or The Ransom Trilogy) is a series of science fiction novels by British writer C. S. Lewis. The trilogy consists of Out of the Silent Planet (1938), Perelandra (1943), and That Hideous Strength (1945).
After World War II, three teenage rocket experimenters are recruited by one boy's uncle, Dr. Cargraves, a renowned physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project, to refit a conventionally powered surplus "mail rocket". It is to be converted to run on a thorium nuclear pile which boils zinc as a propellant. They use a cleared area in a ...