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Throughout the novels, Chip better simulates being human as he gains a better understanding of humans. The books were later made into a series of made-for-TV films for the Walt Disney anthology television series, starring Alan Thicke as Dr. Jonas Carson, Robyn Lively as his daughter Becky, and Jay Underwood as Chip. Chip is created to look age ...
The Galactic Center Saga is a series of books by author Gregory Benford detailing a galactic war between mechanical and biological life. In the Ocean of Night (1977) [1] — 1977 Nebula Award nominee, [2] 1978 Locus Award nominee [3] Across the Sea of Suns (1984) Great Sky River (1987) [4] — 1988 Nebula Nominee [5]
Babel-17 is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Samuel R. Delany in which the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis (that language influences thought and perception) plays an important part. [2] It was joint winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1967 (with Flowers for Algernon) [3] and was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel ...
Ralph 124C 41 +, by Hugo Gernsback, is an early science fiction novel, written as a twelve-part serial in Modern Electrics magazine, which Gernsback edited, beginning in April 1911. It was compiled into novel/book form in 1925. While it pioneered many ideas found in later science fiction, it has been critically panned for its "inept writing."
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1967, [4] and was a finalist for the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel. [5]Algis Budrys, after noting that Delany "has about as little discipline as any writer who has tried his hand" at science fiction and that The Einstein Intersection was a book "whose structure and purpose on its own terms are not realized", declared that the ...
Abaddon's Gate is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey (pen name of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck).It is about a conflict in the Solar System that involves the polities of Earth, Mars, the Asteroid Belt and the outer planets, and a mysterious self-replicating alien technology of immense power.
Ubik (/ ˈ juː b ɪ k / YOO-bik) is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.The story is set in a future 1992 where psychic powers are utilized in corporate espionage, while cryonic technology allows recently deceased people to be maintained in a lengthy state of hibernation. [1]