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Materials science in science fiction is the study of how materials science is portrayed in works of science fiction.The accuracy of the materials science portrayed spans a wide range – sometimes it is an extrapolation of existing technology, sometimes it is a physically realistic portrayal of a far-out technology, and sometimes it is simply a plot device that looks scientific, but has no ...
The Memory Police (Japanese: 密やかな結晶, Hepburn: Hisoyaka na Kesshō, "Secret Crystallization" or "Quiet Crystallization") [3] is a 1994 science fiction novel by Yōko Ogawa. [4] The novel, dream-like and melancholy in tone in a manner influenced by modernist writer Franz Kafka , takes place on an island with a setting reminiscent of ...
The book contains eight essays on the history of science fiction, eleven thematic essays on how different topics relate to science fiction, and 250 entries on various science fiction subgenres, authors, works, and motifs. It received positive reviews, with critics finding it to be well-researched and useful for students in particular.
And so works centered on some “extinction-like event”—books like The Road, or The Handmaid’s Tale, or The Leftovers—do, in effect, count as science-fiction. (Though, we’ve included far ...
Within numerous science fiction settings, the challenges associated with contemporary cryonics are overcome prior to the development of faster-than-light travel, making it a viable means of interstellar transportation. In fictional renditions, the cells typically remain viable, and the revival process is depicted as straightforward or even ...
"The Crystal Spheres" is a science fiction short story by American writer David Brin, originally published in the January 1984 issue of Analog and collected in The River of Time. [1] It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story 1985. [2] In it, Brin presents an explanation for the Fermi Paradox.
The Crystal Horde is a science fiction novel by American writer John Taine (pseudonym of Eric Temple Bell). It was first published in book form in 1952 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 2,328 copies.
Contemporary Authors. Volumes 53–56. Detroit: Gale Research, 1975. Who Was Who in America. Volume 6, 1974–1976. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1976. Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. 3d ed. Edited by Noelle Watson and Paul E. Schellinger. Chicago: St. James Press, 1991. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Edited by John Clute and ...