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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 late 19th century witnessed a new generation of writers, such as J.-H. Rosny aîné, utilizing science and pseudoscience for purely fictional purposes. [15] This marked a significant departure from their predecessors, who employed the conjectural element as a pretext, following in the footsteps of Savinian Cyrano de Bergerac's utopian, Jonathan Swift's satires, and Camille Flammarion's ...
A Crystal Age is a utopian novel/Dystopia written by W. H. Hudson, first published in 1887. [1] The book has been called a "significant S-F milestone" [ 2 ] and has been noted for its anticipation of the "modern ecological mysticism" that would evolve a century later.
As a result, the earliest stories in the genre date to the end of the 19th century, and include W.H. Hudson's A Crystal Age (1887) and H.G. Wells' The Time Machine (1895). [1] Classic examples of the genre from the first half of the 20th century include Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men (1930) and Arthur C. Clarke's Against the Fall of Night ...
The VFA began as a web-ring formed in March 2012 by visionary authors Jodine Turner, Saleena Karim, and Shannan Sinclair, who joined forces to promote their genre via the Visionary Fiction Group at goodreads.com. [42] The Visionary Fiction group expanded to 12 authors before the VFA website live in August 2012. By May 2014 the VFA had 36 member ...
"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.
According to Ott and Broman, Aniara is an effort to "[mediate] between science and poetry, between the wish to understand and the difficulty to comprehend". [10] Martinson translates scientific imagery into the poem: for example, the "curved space" from Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity is likely an inspiration for Martinson's description of the cosmos as "a bowl of glass ...
Scientific romance is an archaic, mainly British term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction. The term originated in the 1850s to describe both fiction and elements of scientific writing, but it has since come to refer to the science fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, primarily that of Jules ...