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3 unusual facts about science fiction


Celestial Games

After Toxic Bunny was published Celestial Games then started working on a new title, The Tainted a Science fiction, action, Role-playing video game or RPG.

Jamie Donnelly

She is featured on the original Roxy cast recording in her role, singing the opening song Science Fiction/Double Feature.

Monkey Gone to Heaven

Snarled vocals, sci-fi lyrics, and the usual molten lava flow of guitars burn another crater where your ears used to be.


.com for Murder

com for Murder is a 2001 science fiction crime drama film written by Nico Mastorakis and Phill Marr and directed by Mastorakis, starring Nastassja Kinski, Nicollette Sheridan, Roger Daltrey, and Huey Lewis.

Abhuman

Neal Asher describes humans possessed by hostile "Jain" technology as "abhuman figures" in his science fiction novel Polity Agent.

Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne

Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne(Alraune, the hangman's daughter, named Red Hanna) is a 1918 silent science fiction horror film directed by Eugen Illés and Joseph Klein and starring Max Auzinger in which a Doctor uses the sperm of a dead man to impregnate a prostitute.

And a Star to Steer Her By

And a Star to Steer Her By is a science fiction short story by G. Harry Stine under the name Lee Correy originally published in the June 1953 edition of Astounding Science Fiction.

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials

Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials is a 1979 science fiction book by artist Wayne Barlowe, with Ian Summers and Beth Meacham (who provided the text).

Between the Strokes of Night

Between the Strokes of Night (1985) is a science fiction novel by Charles Sheffield.

Beyond the Stars

This science fiction drama centers on Eric, teenage son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo program which sent the first humans to the moon.

Big Body

It's also a concept album based on the SF stories of Theodore Sturgeon (More Than Human) and Kurt Vonnegut (The Sirens of Titan); telling a story where the human race was transformed into a species named "Homo Gestalt" by computer networks, having a "Journey Through Your Body" theme.

Bristol VR

Three 1980 VRs were used in the making of a 2009 episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who entitled "Planet of the Dead" - one new to West Riding Automobile Company (registered RUA 461W), and the other two new to Alder Valley (registered GGM 84W and HJB 455W).

Catherine Crook de Camp

Catherine Crook de Camp, (November 6, 1907, New York City – April 9, 2000, Plano, Texas) was an American science fiction and fantasy author and editor.

Continental Shelf Station Two

The undersea living experiment also had two other structures, one a submarine hangar that housed a small, two man submarine referred to as the "diving saucer" for its resemblance to a science fiction flying saucer, and a smaller "deep cabin" where two oceanauts lived at a depth of 30 metres for a week.

Dennis Ryland

Dennis Ryland is a fictional character on the USA Network science fiction The 4400 portrayed by Peter Coyote.

Dumbing down

Conceptually, the world postulated in Idiocracy derives from the science fiction short story The Marching Morons (1951), by Cyril M. Kornbluth.

Espedair Street

As Banks' first novel to eschew 'special effects', not being Gothic horror like The Wasp Factory, a literary mystery (Walking on Glass), or science fiction, most critics regard it as one of his most accessible works.

Eugène Mouton

Pierre Martin Désiré Eugène Mouton (12 April 1823, Marseille, - 8 June 1902, Paris) was a French writer of comic, adventure, and fantastical literature, and is considered an early writer of science fiction.

Fictitious entry

A Fred Saberhagen science fiction short story, "The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron," in which an encyclopedia article for a star system was a fictitious entry included in the encyclopedia to detect plagiarism, which caused a ship to end up in an empty star system where it ran out of fuel and ceased to be a threat to humanity.

Frugalware Linux

All the Frugalware releases except "Genesis" have been named after planets in science fiction books by Isaac Asimov.

Gabrielle Stanton

Her first job was on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which she followed with writing positions on V.I.P. and the science fiction series Earth: Final Conflict, Farscape, The Invisible Man and Veritas: The Quest, in the latter two of which she also served as co-producer.

In Darkness Waiting

In Darkness Waiting is a science fiction short story by Stephen Leigh.

In Milton Lumky Territory

In Milton Lumky Territory is a realist, non-science fiction novel authored by Philip K. Dick.

Inspector Shimura

Shimura is a comic strip in the British science fiction anthology the Judge Dredd Megazine, detailing the exploits of its eponymous hero in Hondo-City, a futuristic version of Tokyo.

Jo the Waiter

Like many Numan songs from this period, it evokes a Burroughsian world of addiction, homosexuality and failed relationships, predating the writer's fascination with science fiction that took hold on the next and last Tubeway Army album, Replicas (1979).

John Morressy

John Morressy (December 8, 1930 - March 20, 2006, Sullivan, New Hampshire) was a science fiction and fantasy writer and a professor of English at Franklin Pierce College.

John Sickels

Sickels has also written poetry, science fiction, and has had multiple role playing books published within the Star Fleet Universe game system off-shoot of Star Trek.

Karl Heinz Göller

Göller was widely admired for the number and range of his publications: six books and over 110 essays on topics as diverse as the Old English elegies, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Shelley, T. S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, nursery rhymes and science fiction.

March Laumer

He was the older brother of science fiction writer Keith Laumer; their youngest brother Frank was also a writer, on historical subjects.

Mark Dery

In it, he interviews three African-American thinkers—science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany, writer and musician Greg Tate, and cultural critic Tricia Rose—about different critical dimensions of Afrofuturism in an attempt to define the aesthetic.

Michael McGruther

In 2001, Extra Life, a drama about coming-of-age in the digital world; in 2004, Arthur C. Clarke's prophetic novel Prelude to Space; and in 2005, Blood Son, based on the 1951 short story by legendary science fiction and horror writer Richard Matheson.

Michael R. Collings

Collings has had multiple collections of his poetry published on subjects such as Mormon theology, Joseph Smith, Christmas, science fiction, and horror.

Microcon

Microcon is an annual science fiction and fantasy convention, held annually at the University of Exeter in Exeter, Devon, England since 1982, usually over the first weekend in March.

My Living Doll

According to The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, My Living Doll is the source of the science fiction phrase "Does not compute" in popular culture.

Mysterious Galaxy

It was founded in 1993 and caters mostly to fans of genre fiction such as mystery, fantasy, science fiction, and horror.

Necker cube

The Necker cube is discussed to such extent in Robert J. Sawyer's 1998 science fiction novel Factoring Humanity that "Necker" becomes a verb, meaning to impel one's brain to switch from one perspective or perception to another.

New York Race

NYR: New York Race, also known as New York Race, is a science fiction racing game based on the film The Fifth Element directed by Luc Besson.

Of Missing Persons

Of Missing Persons is a 1955 science fiction short story by Jack Finney, which describes a burned-out bank teller named Charley Ewell living in 1955 New York City who receives a chance to emigrate from Earth to Verna, a lush, earthlike planet light-years away.

Penelope Austin

In March Austin and Conley won a competition to collaborate with US producer, J. J. Abrams, on a track for the Australian version of the science fiction film, Star Trek Into Darkness (April 2013).

Peter Heck

Peter Jewell Heck (born 4 September 1941, Chestertown, Maryland) is an American science fiction and mystery author.

Phenytoin

In the 2013 science fiction film Elysium, the protagonist (played by Matt Damon) takes Miporol, a fictional brand name for diphenylhydantoin, after having been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.

Pinpre Puran

Besides this novel, he also wrote many other novels and stories, such as: Kuhoker Deshe কুহকের দেশে, Prithibeer Shatru পৄথিবীর শত্রু, Kalapanir Atole কালাপানির অতলে, etc. and the famous Ghanada series, all of which cover a wide range of science fiction.

Propertarianism

Ursula K. Le Guin, in the science fiction novel The Dispossessed (1974), contrasted a propertarian society with one that does not recognize property rights.

Ram Moav

Ram Moav (1930 - 1984) was an Israeli geneticist and science fiction writer.

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers is a best-selling science fiction comedy novel by Grant Naylor, the collective name for Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, co-creators and writers of the Red Dwarf television series, on which the novel is based.

Rhino Times

The newspaper features editorial columns by noted science fiction and fantasy author and Mormon Orson Scott Card and local investigative reporting by New York Times best-selling author Jerry Bledsoe.

Robert DoQui

He is best known for his role as King George in the 1973 film Coffy, starring Pam Grier, as Sgt. Warren Reed in the 1987 science fiction film RoboCop, the 1990 sequel RoboCop 2, and the 1993 sequel RoboCop 3.

Saint Leibowitz

Saint Leibowitz is a character in the science fiction novels A Canticle for Leibowitz and Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman written by Walter M. Miller, Jr..

Simon Levack

He has acknowledged Australian historian and anthropologist Inga Clendinnen and the work of Bernardino de Sahagún, compiler of the Florentine Codex, as influences; he has also (in an interview with the Criminal History ezine) indicated that science fiction has been an influence on his work.

Skoptsy

The Stars My Destination - science fiction novel by Alfred Bester features a futuristic version of the Skoptsy sect, in which members have all sensory nerves severed.

Thendara, New York

Thendara is also the name of the main city on the planet Darkover in the famous series of science fiction novels by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

Ukiah Oregon

It is revealed that several centuries ago the invasion force of a hive mind species called the Ontongard arrived in the Solar System with the intention of converting all life on Earth into a copy of itself, via a form of viral infection.

Year's Best SF

Year's Best SF is a science fiction anthology series edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.


see also

41st World Science Fiction Convention

The 41st World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as ConStellation, was held September 1–5, 1983, at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Alpha Rho Upsilon

Other distinguished ARU alumni include author & reporter Gordon Weil '54, Congressman Tom Andrews '75, noted economist Larry Lindsey '76, opera singer Kurt Ollmann '77, and science fiction writer Walter H. Hunt '81.

Audio signal processing

overdrive effects such as the use of a fuzz box can be used to produce distorted sounds, such as for imitating robotic voices or to simulate distorted radiotelephone traffic (e.g., the radio chatter between starfighter pilots in the science fiction film Star Wars).

Ben Dunn

In 2006, Dunn worked as an animator for the science-fiction film "A Scanner Darkly."

Cinda Williams Chima

They have been named Booksense and Indie Next picks, an International Reading Association Young Adult Choice, a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, to the Kirkus Best YA list, and the VOYA Editors’ Choice, Best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, and Perfect Tens lists.

Code Blue

Code Blue – Emergency, a 1987 science fiction novel by author James White.

Constance Chapman

Born at Weston-super-Mare, her roles include Mrs. Brown in the 1982 Granada Television adaptation of A Kind of Loving and Anne in the Children's science fiction series, The Georgian House (1976).

Curse of the Hidden Mirror

John Shirley, a renowned author of cyberpunk science fiction, wrote the lyrics for many songs of the album.

EarthWeb

EarthWeb is a science fiction novel written by author Marc Stiegler, and released in May, 1999 by publisher Baen Books.

Ellen Klages

She got involved in writing fiction while working at the Exploratorium, in San Francisco, when she was selected to co-author a children’s science activity book with science fiction author Pat Murphy.

Expo '70

Director Douglas Trumbull said that the design of the space freighter Valley Forge in the 1971 science fiction drama Silent Running was inspired by the Landmark Tower.

Fanaticon

Fanaticon is a multi-genre, science-fiction, fantasy, comic book, anime, and gaming convention held in Dothan, Alabama.

Fantazia

Fantázia, a Slovak science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine

Frank Schoonover

He also gave art lessons, established a small art school in his studio, designed stain glass windows, and dabbled in science fiction art (illustrating Edgar Rice BurroughsA Princess of Mars), he was known locally as the “Dean of Delaware Artists.”

Hiroko

Hiroko Ai, a character in the science fiction novel series Mars trilogy

Howard Roffman

The book, Heir to the Empire by noted science fiction author Timothy Zhan stayed on the The New York Times Best Seller list for nineteen weeks, paving the way for a highly successful re-launch of the franchise.

Jeff Marcus

Jeff is best known for his television role as Albert Einstein, the Tenctonese janitor of the L.A.P.D. precinct in the cult science fiction TV series Alien Nation.

John J. Pierce

He has written critical essays and book introductions on Cordwainer Smith, and essays on Twin Peaks and The X-Files for the fanzines Wrapped in Plastic and Spectrum and has had other articles published in The New York Review of Science Fiction and Science Fiction Studies.

Kurd Lasswitz

His first published science fiction story was "Bis zum Nullpunkt des Seins" ("To the Zero Point of Existence", 1871), depicting life in 2371, but he earned his reputation with his 1897 novel Two Planets, which describes an encounter between humans and a Martian civilization that is older and more advanced.

Loglan

This has been thought to make it suitable for humancomputer communication, which led Robert A. Heinlein to mention the language in his science fiction novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966), and as a fully-fledged computer language in The Number of the Beast (1980).

Margaret Wander Bonanno

She has written several science fiction novels set in her own worlds, including The Others, a collaborative novel with Nichelle Nichols, a biography, and other works.

Mason, Michigan

David Feintuch, author of the acclaimed science fiction series the Seafort Saga, was a longtime resident of Mason.

Monster on the Campus

The film was the last of Universal's science fiction monster films released before Island of Terror (1966).

Myths of the Near Future

The Mercury Prize-winning band Klaxons named their debut album after the book, and have been quoted as saying they are fans of Ballard's work, reflected in their science fiction and futuristic lyrical content.

Panshin

Alexei Panshin (born 1940), American writer and science fiction critic

Postliterate society

Many science-fiction societies are postliterate, as in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Dan Simmons' novel Ilium, and Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story.

Preincarnation

It is found in the anime Millennium Actress when the interviewer is present in the main character's memories, in the ending to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining as well as the science fiction series Quantum Leap and PSI Factor.

Rob Grant

The 'Grant Naylor' collaboration, as it had become known, was best known for the creation of the cult science-fiction comedy series, Red Dwarf, which evolved from Dave Hollins: Space Cadet, a recurring sketch within Son Of Cliché.

Robert Banks Stewart

Stewart wrote two highly regarded serials for the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons (1975) (which was set in his native Scotland and drew on the Loch Ness Monster legend) and The Seeds of Doom (1976) (which was influenced by The Day of the Triffids).

Robert Bennet

Robert Ames Bennet (1870–1954), American western and science fiction writer

Roberta Collins

She starred in many exploitation films, including the prostitute, Clara in Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive, and the character, Matilda the Hun in the science fiction film, Death Race 2000.

Rod Roddenberry

Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry is the son of actress Majel Barrett and writer and producer Gene Roddenberry, who is best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek.

Roger Spottiswoode

In 2000, he directed the science fiction action thriller The 6th Day starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Scott Adams

An avid fan of the science fiction TV series Babylon 5, he appeared in the season 4 episode "Moments of Transition" as a character named "Mr. Adams," who hires former head of security Michael Garibaldi to locate his megalomaniacal dog and cat.

Scott Bartlett

His science fiction epic feature "Innerseed" was in pre-production for many years, having completed a pre-visualization version starring a then unknown William Hurt.

Sean Moore

Sean A. Moore (1965–1998), American fantasy and science fiction writer

Simone Bendix

In addition to the 1994 Gerry Anderson science-fiction drama Space Precinct, in which she played the regular role of Officer Jane Castle, her television appearances include The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993), Between the Lines (1993), The Tomorrow People (1994), Lie Down with Lions (1994) and The Crow Road (1996).

Special circumstances

Special Circumstances, a secret service-type organization in Iain M. Banks' Culture science-fiction setting

Stiftelsen

Foundation series, a famous science fiction series by Isaac Asimov known in Scandinavian languages as Stiftelseserien

Strange Change Machine

The Strange Change Machine was a Mattel toy from the late 1960s, in which "shape memory" plastic figures of prehistoric animals & science fiction-like creatures could be reconstituted from compressed "time capsule" form, and re-compressed back into that form.

Sylvia Kelso

She has a Creative Writing MA built around one science-fiction novel using alternate North Queenslands and she earned her Ph.D. in 1997.

The Cornell Lunatic

Famous alumni from the magazine include science fiction novelist Adam-Troy Castro, CSI producer Naren Shankar, and Harvard economics professor Sendhil Mullainathan.

The Indestructible Man

Indestructible Man, a black-and-white second-feature science fiction film starring Lon Chaney, Jr., made in 1956

The Santaroga Barrier

Wolfe, G.K. "Santaroga Barrier, The – Frank Herbert", in Magill, Frank Northern (editor) (1979) Survey of Science Fiction Literature Salem Press, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp.

The Ship Who Sang

In the popular 1992 science fiction computer game, Star Control II, the player can embark on an optional side quest to Beta Corvi, and meet a sentient alien race who inhabit a gas giant there.

The Voices of Time

The Voices of Time (collection), a collection of science fiction short stories by J. G. Ballard

Toronto Public Library

Notable special collections include The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, The Merril Collection of Science Fiction, The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, and The Rita Cox Black and Caribbean Heritage Collection.

Townsley

Joel Townsley Rogers (1896–1984), American writer who wrote science-fiction, air-adventure, and mystery stories

Year's Best SF 9

Year's Best SF 9 (ISBN 0-06-057559-X) is a science fiction anthology edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer that was published in 2004.

Zero Theory

The Zero Theorem, a science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam