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In science, attrition are ratios regarding the loss of participants during an experiment. Attrition rates are values that indicate the participant drop out ...
The Dark Beyond the Stars is a 1991 science fiction novel by American writer Frank M. Robinson. [1] It is a Lambda Literary Award winner, published by Orb Books. [2] It tells the story of a generation ship and its crew on a long mission to search for extraterrestrial life in the galaxy and the complex conflict between the Captain and the protagonist, a 17-year-old technician named Sparrow.
[1]: 70 Science fiction magazines, including Gernsback's Science Wonder Stories, alongside works of pure fiction, discussed the feasibility of space travel; many science fiction writers also published nonfiction works on space travel, such as Willy Ley's articles and David Lasser's book, The Conquest of Space (1931). [1]: 71 [5]: 743
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 ...
Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia is a 2021 reference work written by science fiction scholar Gary Westfahl and published by ABC-Clio/Greenwood.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.
The Science in Science Fiction is a book by David Langford, Peter Nicholls and Brian Stableford published in 1982. The book is divided into twelve chapters. The first eleven chapters each examine science fiction works about a particular topic, such as Space Flight, Aliens or Time Travel, and discuss how accurate the works are to real science; the final chapter of the book covers notable ...
Frederik Pohl's science fiction work The Age of the Pussyfoot (1966–1969) tells the story of a man revived from cryopreservation in the year 2527, having died in a fire 500 years earlier. Although relatively few stories explore cryonics for medical time travel, Edgar Allan Poe's mentioned story (1845) includes a mummy, mentioning the use of ...
Downbelow Station is a science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh, published in 1981 by DAW Books.It won the Hugo Award in 1982, [1] was shortlisted for a Locus Award that same year, [1] and was named by Locus magazine as one of the top 50 science fiction novels of all time in 1987.