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The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 1971 The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper: H. G. Wells: Ladies' Home Journal: 1932 The Rats in the Walls: H. P. Lovecraft: Weird Tales: 1923 The Ray-Gun: A Love Story: James Alan Gardner: Asimov's Science Fiction: 2008 The Red One: Jack London: 1918 The Red Queen's Race: Isaac Asimov: Analog ...
Each story has introductory notes by Warrick, author of The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction (1981), explaining the significance of the story in the context of science fiction's evolution of ideas concerning artificial intelligence. This anthology is a companion piece to that non-fiction book, providing the source material upon which ...
The first official definition of Smart Grid was provided by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA-2007), which was approved by the US Congress in January 2007, and signed to law by President George W. Bush in December 2007. Title XIII of this bill provides a description, with ten characteristics, that can be considered a ...
Robots, Androids, and Mechanical Oddities: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick.It was first published by the Southern Illinois University Press in 1984 and was edited by Patricia S. Warrick and Martin H. Greenberg.
An abridged paperback edition titled, Selections from Science Fiction Thinking Machines was later published by Bantam Books in August 1955 and was reprinted in September 1964. [1] The book consists of twenty-two novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors, together with an introduction and bibliography by the editor. The ...
"A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...
The book should be distinct from his similarly titled later anthology, Six Great Short Science Fiction Novels. The book collects six novellas and novelettes by various science fiction authors, together with an introduction by the editor. The stories were previously published from 1940-1952 in various science fiction and other magazines. [1]
Many of the most enduring science fiction tropes were established in Golden Age literature. Space opera came to prominence with the works of E. E. "Doc" Smith; Isaac Asimov established the canonical Three Laws of Robotics beginning with the 1941 short story "Runaround"; the same period saw the writing of genre classics such as the Asimov's Foundation and Smith's Lensman series.