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Arnould Galopin

Galopin also wrote a number of science fiction novels in the Jules Verne and H.G. Wells style, including the remarkable Doctor Omega (1906), La Révolution de Demain (Tomorrow’s Revolution) (1909) and Le Bacille (1928), an uncannily prophetic tale of a mad scientist who uses biological warfare for revenge.

Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant

Gears of War: Jacinto's Remnant is a 2009 science fiction novel by Karen Traviss, set in the Gears of War universe.

More Things in Heaven

More Things in Heaven is a science fiction novel written by John Brunner and based in part on an earlier work, The Astronauts Must Not Land copyrighted in 1963 by Ace Books, revised version published in 1973 by Dell Books.

The Front Page

John Varley's 1991 science fiction novel Steel Beach takes the story — and the change of sex — to another level; the plot includes a sex-change by a male reporter named Hildy Johnson.

The World of Null-A

The World of Null-A, sometimes written The World of Ā, is a 1948 science fiction novel by A. E. van Vogt.


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A Study in Terror

The film inspired the writing of Sherlock Holmes's War of the Worlds, blending the story of Sherlock Holmes and the world of H.G Wells' science fiction novel The War of the Worlds.

Albert G. Brown

In the 1994 alternative history/science fiction novel The Guns of the South, Brown serves as the running mate to Robert E. Lee in the 1867 Confederate Presidential Election opposing Nathan Bedford Forrest and Louis Wigfall, and is elected vice president, but is killed during an assassination attempt against Lee on his inauguration day.

Alexander Dalgarno

Dalgarno is also cited in the Nebula Award winning novel The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro, a science fiction novel based on Asaro's doctoral work while she was a Ph.D student with Dalgarno.

Blood of the Dragon

Dragonsblood, a 2005 science fiction novel by Todd McCaffrey in the "Dragonriders of Pern" series

CanGames

The CanGames Dwarf was designed by Denis Beauvais, a noted Fantasy artist whose work has appeared in Dragon Magazine, science fiction novel covers and in various video and boardgames.

City of Pearl

City of Pearl is a science fiction novel by Karen Traviss.

Code Blue

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

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster

She now collaborates on everything from the writing of a science fiction novel with fellow artist Philippe Parreno to working with rock singer Alain Bashung on set design.

Donovan's Brain

Donovan's Brain is a 1942 science fiction novel by Curt Siodmak.

EarthWeb

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

Eric J. Heller

Heller is mentioned in the Nebula Award winning novel The Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro, a science fiction novel based in part on Heller's theories.

Evening's Empire

Evening's Empire is a science fiction novel written by David Herter in 2002.

Fear No Evil

I Will Fear No Evil, a 1970 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein

Felix culpa

The theological concept is one of the underlying themes of Raphael Carter's science fiction novel

Flag of Mars

In his science-fiction novel Moving Mars, Greg Bear describes the flag of the fictional Federal Republic of Mars as follows: "red Mars and two moons in blue field above a diagonal, white below".

Hiroko

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

Interloper

Interlopers, a 2001 science fiction novel by Alan Dean Foster

Invisible theater

A similar form of "micro-theater" was portrayed by Samuel R. Delany in his science-fiction novel Triton.

John Korty

The film starred Kim Darby and William Shatner, was produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and was based on the science-fiction novel The Pilgrimage by Zenna Henderson.

Lala Hasanova

In 2007, Hasanova's next science-fiction novel Collision, devoted to the Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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).

Louise Lawrence

In 1971, Lawrence released her first science fiction novel, Andra, about a futuristic society in which the ruler dominates the lives of the citizens of an underground city.

Make Room

Make Room! Make Room!, a dystopian science-fiction novel by Harry Harrison, the basis of the Soylent Green movie

Nunhead Cemetery

The Woman Between the Worlds, a 1994 science fiction novel by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre set in Victorian England, depicts the burial at Nunhead Cemetery in 1898 (in a closed coffin) of a female extraterrestrial.

Oi Polloi

In 2013, they collaborated with CLÀR, the Scottish Gaelic publisher, to launch Mill a h-Uile Rud singer Tim Armstrong's Gaelic science fiction novel Air Cuan Dubh Drilseach at events at Elvis Shakespeare on Leith Walk and on The Cruz Boat at the Shore in Leith.

Omega: The Last Days of the World

Omega: The Last Days of the World is a science fiction novel published in 1894 by Camille Flammarion.

Puente Hills

In the 1953 film adaptation of H. G. Wells' science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds, the Puente Hills were the landing site of the first spacecraft in the Martian invasion.

Red 5 Studios

In July 2011, Red 5 announced a collaboration with Orson Scott Card, author of the science fiction novel Ender's Game, as writer of the Firefall story as well as the creation of a manga novel co-written by his daughter Emily Janice Card and drawn by Joe Ng.

Return to Mars

:There is also a 1955 juvenile science fiction novel of this name by W. E. Johns.

Sapphique

Sapphique is a young-adult fantasy and science fiction novel written by Catherine Fisher, first published in 2008 in the UK.

Sennacherib

Sennacherib is briefly mentioned in the science-fiction novel Children of Dune by Frank Herbert, and in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

Springville, California

In the science fiction novel Lucifer's Hammer, written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, fragments of a comet strike the Earth, causing massive tidal waves to destroy most of the planet's coastal cities.

Stalk

The Stalk, a 1994 science fiction novel by Chris Morris and Janet Morris

Stardance

Stardance is a science fiction novel by Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson, published by Dial Press in 1979 as part of its Quantum science fiction line.

Straylight Run

The band's name was taken from the final section of William Gibson's cyberpunk science-fiction novel Neuromancer.

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 Angel of the Revolution

The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) is a science fiction novel by English writer George Griffith.

The Light of Day

The Light of Other Days, a 2000 science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

The Silver Ship and the Sea

The Silver Ship and the Sea is a young-adult science-fiction novel by Brenda Cooper, published in 2007.

The Throne of Saturn

The Throne of Saturn (novel), a 1970 science fiction novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning political fiction author Allen Drury

Tommyknocker

The Tommyknockers, a 1987 science fiction novel by American writer Stephen King

Triple modular redundancy

In Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novel Rendezvous with Rama, the Ramans make heavy use of triple redundancy.

Tsingtao Brewery

In the 1984 science fiction novel Neuromancer by William Gibson, a plastic ashtray branded with Tsingdao Beer is mentioned in a scene taking place in the bar The Chatsubo.

Tullio Avoledo

In 2011 he published another science fiction novel, Un buon posto per morire, in collaboration with Davide "Boosta" Dileo, keyboard player of the Turinese band Subsonica.

Uri-Rotstock

In Alan Dean Foster's 1984 science-fiction novel The I Inside, the great supercomputer known as The Colligatarch

Voices from the Street

Additionally the character of Hadley returns in Dr. Bloodmoney, as a black man, as opposed to the Caucasian character that he was in Voices from the Street, and again in Dick's science fiction novel The Crack in Space (1966).

William R. Pogue

In 1992, he co-authored The Trikon Deception, a science fiction novel, with Ben Bova.

Xill

The xill is inspired by the ixtl, a devil-like alien from the science fiction novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle by A. E. van Vogt.