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"Scanners Live in Vain" was judged by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the finest science fiction short stories prior to 1965 and, as such, was included in the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964. The story was nominated for a Retro-Hugo award for Best Novelette in 2001. It has been published in ...
The Seetee series is a golden age science fiction series by the American writer Jack Williamson, under the pseudonym "Will Stewart.". The narrative follows a small group of late-22nd century Asteroid Belt colonists who attempt to harness the titular seetee (a phonetic for "ContraTerrene", an obsolete term for antimatter [1]), both for the advancement of humanity and to secure the Belt's ...
"The Veldt" is a science fiction short story by American author Ray Bradbury. Originally appearing as "The World the Children Made" in the September 23, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, it was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man.
The Edge of Tomorrow is a collection of short science fiction stories and science essays by Isaac Asimov, published by Tor Books in July 1985. Contents [ edit ]
A sequel to "The Ruum", titled "A Specimen for the Queen", appeared in the May 1960 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.. Following the events of the original story, it is mentioned in passing that the Ruum succeeds in paralyzing a human (implied to be an ironic self-insert of Porges himself).
The Man Who Awoke is a 1933 science fiction novel by Canadian writer Laurence Manning. It was initially serialized in five parts during 1933 in Wonder Stories magazine. In 1975 it was published by Ballantine Books as one complete novel. Norman Winters puts himself into suspended animation for 5,000 years at a time. The stories detail his ...
The World of Null-A, sometimes written The World of Ā, is a 1948 science fiction novel by Canadian-American writer A. E. van Vogt. It was originally published as a three-part serial in 1945 in Astounding Stories. It incorporates concepts from the general semantics of Alfred Korzybski. The name Ā refers to non-Aristotelian logic.
He Who Shrank is a science fiction novella by Henry Hasse, [1] printed as the featured story in the August 1936 issue of Amazing Stories magazine (illustrated on the cover and in its interior pages by Leo Morey). It is about a man who is forever shrinking through worlds nested within a universe with apparently endless levels of scale.