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unusual facts about speculative fiction



Eric Shapiro

Short fiction by Eric Shapiro can be found in the fiction anthologies "The Elastic Book of Numbers" (British Fantasy Award Winner for Best Anthology, 2006), "Daikaiju!" (Ditmar Award Winner for Collected Work, 2006), and "Corpse Blossoms" (Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Anthology, 2006), among other speculative fiction anthologies.

Le Dernier Homme

Written by Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville and published in 1805, it was the first story of modern speculative fiction to depict the end of the world.

Matthew Kapell

Other publications include works on the computer game Civilization, Holocaustal images in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the American speculative fiction and socialist writer Mack Reynolds re-working of the Utopian fiction of Edward Bellamy, and Christian Romance fiction.

Nicholas Chamberlaine Technology College

The author of speculative fiction Graham Joyce also attended Nicholas Chamberlaine School in the late 1960s.

Prayers for the Assassin

Prayers for the Assassin is a political thriller, and a work of speculative fiction, written by American crime writer Robert Ferrigno.

Romas Kukalis

Romas Brandt Kukalis (also known simply as Romas) (born in Toronto, Canada) is a painter best known for his work as a cover artist for works of speculative fiction, including the Animorphs Chronicles.

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

Mark Dery states that afrofuturism within speculative fiction, “treats African-American themes and addresses African-American concerns in the context of twentieth-century techno-culture”.


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Adam Brown

Adam Browne (born 1963), Australian speculative fiction writer

Black science fiction

According to Jess Nevins, "a fully accurate history of black speculative fiction ... would be impossible to write" because very little is known of the dime novel authors of the 19th century and the pulp magazine writers of the early 20th century, including notably their ethnicity.

Distrust That Particular Flavor

Since making a name for himself as a leading figure in the cyberpunk genre with his Sprawl trilogy of novels, Gibson has been primarily known as a writer of science or speculative fiction.

Gibsonia

The works of William Gibson, a late 20th-century/early 21st-century speculative fiction author

Principle of least action

The speculative fiction writer, Ted Chiang, has a story, Story of Your Life, that contains visual depictions of Fermat's Principle along with a discussion of its teleological dimension.

Richard Bowes

It included the original novella, "My Life in Speculative Fiction." These stories plus recent material appeared in Streetcar Dreams and Other Midnight Fancies from England's PS Publishing in 2006.

Shimmer

Shimmer Magazine, or Shimmerzine, a speculative fiction magazine

Sonny Whitelaw

Sonny Whitelaw (born 9 August 1956) is the author of several contemporary ecothriller and speculative fiction novels including five Stargate novels.

The Deep: Here Be Dragons

The all-ages graphic novel won the Aurealis Award, Australia's premier speculative fiction literary award, for Best illustrated book/graphic novel in 2012 and was also nominated for Best children’s illustrated work/picture book.

Vylar Kaftan

Kaftan's short story "Civilisation" is included in Farah Mendlesohn's anthology Glorifying Terrorism, and several of her other speculative fiction flash and short stories have also been published.