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First edition cover art of Ralph Brillhart published by Monarch Books. The Colors of Space is a 1963 science fiction novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley.. The book has been reviewed by P. Schuyler Miller for the Analog Science Fiction and Fact (1964), by Steve Miller for the Science Fiction Review (1983), and also that year by Robert Coulson for the Amazing Science Fiction.
Moorcock hailed Bester's novel as a reminder of "why the best science fiction still contains, as in Ballard, vivid imagery and powerful prose coupled to a strong moral vision". [20] In 2012, the novel was included in the Library of America two-volume boxed set American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s, edited by Gary K. Wolfe. [21]
At one time, black holes in science fiction were often endowed with the traits of wormholes. This has for the most part disappeared as a black hole isn't a hole in space but a dense mass and the visible vortex effect often associated with black holes is merely the accretion disk of visible matter being drawn toward it.
Some works of fiction have mentioned fictional colors outside of the normal human visual spectrum that have not been observed yet and whose observation may require advanced technology, different physics, or magic. [9] [10] [11] Introduction of a new color is often an allegory intending to deliver additional information to the reader. [12]
"The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. [2] In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" (most likely after a line from either Milton's Paradise Lost or Shakespeare's Macbeth) [3] in the hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts.
[5] UK book review site The Bookbag remarked that "... what sets this book apart is the quality of the writing and the depth of the author's imagination." [ 6 ] On an episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast released on 29 April 2022, the artist Grimes said that Surface Detail of the Culture series is the greatest science fiction book ever written.
Beyond the Spectrum is a science fiction novel by Martin Thomas, published in 1964. Beyond the Spectrum is set in the year 2956, the 30th century. It concerns an invasion of Earth by the inhabitants of the invisible planet Nihil. Nihil is invisible due to an odd defect in the fabric of space between it and most of the other planets.
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.