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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 ...
It was founded in late 1999 by science fiction writer Eric Flint and publisher Jim Baen to determine whether the availability of books free of charge on the Internet encourages or discourages the sale of their paper books. [2] The Baen Free Library represents an experiment in the field of intellectual property and copyright. It appears that ...
House of Stairs (1974) is a science fiction novel by William Sleator about orphaned teenagers placed in a house of stairs, similar to the lithograph print by M. C. Escher, which provided the novel's title and setting, [1] in a psychological exploitation of a social dynamics experiment.
Dune by Frank Herbert. Dune is epic sci-fi. Operatic sci-fi. It’s the sci-fi of world (nay, universe) building, and in that sense it shares much with the fantasy genre—those works inspired by ...
Attack from Atlantis is one of the thirty-five juvenile novels that comprise the Winston Science Fiction set, which were published in the 1950s for a readership of teen-aged boys. The typical protagonist in these books was a boy in his late teens who was proficient in the art of electronics, a hobby that was easily available to the readers.
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 ...
The background of Mars presented in the novel, as a desert planet crisscrossed by giant Martian canals built by an ancient civilization to bring water from the polar ice caps, is a common scenario in science fiction novels of the early 20th century, and was actually put forward as a plausible theory by some astronomers around the turn of the ...
This is one of the thirty-five juvenile novels that comprise the Winston Science Fiction set, which novels were published in the 1950s for a readership of teen-aged boys. The typical protagonist in these books was a boy in his late teens who was proficient in the art of electronics, a hobby that was easily available to the readers.