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Edisonade is a genre of fictional stories about a brilliant young inventor and his inventions, many of which would now be classified as science fiction.This subgenre started in the Victorian and Edwardian eras and had its apex of popularity during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [1]
More books followed, including science fiction novels and stories, gothic works, criticism, plays, a libretto for an opera of Frankenstein, prose and verse children's books such as A Child's Garden of Grammar, and ten poetry collections. In the 1980s, he moved from science fiction to horror with a quartet set in Minneapolis: The Businessman ...
Under Compulsion is a collection of science fiction stories by Thomas M. Disch.It was first published by Rupert Hart-Davis in 1968 in the UK. It was subsequently published in the US in 1970 by Doubleday under the title Fun with Your New Head.
For example, after relating the story of how Simonides relied on remembered seating arrangements to call to mind the faces of recently deceased guests, Steven M. Kosslyn remarks "[t]his insight led to the development of a technique the Greeks called the method of loci, which is a systematic way of improving one's memory by using imagery."
Theodore Lockard Thomas (April 13, 1920 [1] – September 24, 2005 [2]) was an American chemical engineer and patent attorney who wrote more than 50 science fiction short stories, published between 1952 and 1981.
Science Fiction Stories: 1956 A Year in the Linear City: Paul Di Filippo: 2002 All Summer in a Day: Ray Bradbury: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 1954 All You Zombies: Robert A. Heinlein: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 1959 Allamagoosa: Eric Frank Russell: Analog Science Fiction: 1955 And I Awoke and Found Me Here on ...
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 8 (1946) is an English language science fiction story collection, edited by Isaac Asimov and Martin H. Greenberg. [1] It is part of a series which attempts to list the great science fiction stories from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. They date the Golden Age as beginning in 1939 and lasting until 1963.
Algis Budrys praised Science Fiction Inventions as "an excellent book," saying that almost every one of the stories included was "a real landmark sf story, in the especial sense that each of them either originated or first fruited a basic technological idea in such a happy combination with story values that it is impossible to touch that idea again without having to find some totally new ...