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... data9 = Background Robert J. Sawyer — called "the dean of Canadian science fiction" by The Ottawa Citizen and "just about the best science-fiction writer out there these days" by The Denver Rocky Mountain News ... of the science-fiction field's top honors for best novel of the year. Awards The World Science Fiction Society 's Hugo Award , which he won in 2003 for his novel Hominids; The Science Fiction and ...

... . Goddard in science fiction, things about space? Did you ever read any of the science fiction writers of that time? '''Armstrong:''' As a young boy I don't recall reading much science fiction. I did come ... look ahead, but candidly, I don't have the ability that some of those wonderful science fiction writers of past generations had. They turned out to be quite perceptive in many ways ...

... on just what you mean by "prophecy." There are, it seems, four ways in which science fiction can appear prophetic. 1. The author just makes things futuristic by simply making them bigger ... 's science. One well-known science fiction author, who truly ought to have known better, referred to the speculations in From the Earth to the Moon as " ...the kind of pseudoscience that gives science fiction ...

... later American Interplanetary Society, founded in 1930 and afterward known as the American Rocket Society, science fiction literature (more specifically, “interplanetary stories”) played a stronger role in attracting new members and circulating ... 15, 10 August 1927, p. 205; Willy Ley, „The End of the Rocket Society,“ ''Astounding Science Fiction'', Vol. 31, August 1943, p. 64; e-mail, Dorota Trąbka, Scientific Information Department, University ...

... first science fiction convention to ever be staged anywhere in the world, at the Theosophical Hall in Leeds Yorkshire. At this meeting on January 3rd 1937 he joined the newly formed Science Fiction Association and became acquainted with its instigator Douglas W. F. Mayer. In late 1937 and early 1938 Mayer would publish three issues of a magazine called "Amateur Science Stories ...

... , there appeared a biographical sketch, with photo, of Otto Willi Gail, another highly popular German science fiction author, plus a sample chapter of his work, originally published as a book in 1925 ... works, like the other fictional works mentioned earlier, also greatly influenced the members of the VfR and later played a role in the development of early American science fiction interplanetary literature.) Gail was ...

... 1920s he grew interested in science fiction and began a part-time career as a writer of short stories. His fiction appeared in Wonder Stories, one of the all-science fiction magazines published in New ... to Hadfield Part 3 by Robert Godwin Chapter 3 Footnotes i Inventor of the all-science-fiction magazine and sometime contributor to the Globe and Mail. ii Prelude to the Space Age ...

... similar ideas attributed to the Russian Tsiolkovsky and the American Goddard, and even predates the fictional lunar satire of Jules Verne. The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to ... source of inspiration for space travel seems to have almost always been a legendary French fiction writer. On February 8th 1828, Pierre Verne and his wife Sophie Alotte de la Füye ... for space flight. We have the whole neat and tidy story of how a French science fiction writer proposed using a gun for a manned scientific trip to the moon. How his ...

... , Science Fiction’s Story, B.I.S. Not to Aim So High, SFA London Branch Formed. January 1938 (Vol. 1 No. 6) A Year of Progress (Editorial), Campbell’s Plans for “Astounding”, Science Fiction For Beginners ( Arthur C. Clarke ), SFA “More Criticism” Campaign, Another “Tales of Wonder”, Benson Herbert Interviewed, Fantasy Book Reviews, Science Fiction’s Story (Continued), The Great Gilmore ...

... the first to suggest (unmanned) satellites in geosynchronous orbits. The German science fiction author Kurd Lasswitz, mentioned above, had suggested a fictional Martian space station in his 1897 novel, ''Auf Zwei Planeten'' (''On ... (96.5 km/hr.). Also in the February issue appeared a sample chapter of the science fiction novel (published later that year in book form), ''Flug in der Sterne'' (''Flight to the ...

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