Writers may find the future appealing ... be a way of getting at that experience.” In the early part of the 20th century, American science fiction tended to present a positive image of a future ...

Ringworld by Larry Niven was published in 1970 to huge acclaim, winning both Hugo and Nebula awards; it's been in print ever ...

In effect, science-fiction writers critically examined the concept ... Such visions of space communities became attractive in the early 1970s, because new evidence indicated that all other worlds ...

At this time, submarines are only in the very early stages of scientific ... It establishes Ballard as a major British writer of the “New Wave” of science fiction. His stories bring ...

So, in fall 2011, Stephenson launched the Hieroglyph project to rally writers to infuse science fiction with the kind of optimism that could inspire a new generation to, as he puts it ...

The world we carve with our blood remains a world of people. It is in the face of these realities, not in spite of them, that I discover the gift of world builders and science fiction. Writers imagine ...

Writers deemed worthy of entire brief chapters on their ... Cinema, Comics, Dark Fantasy, Early Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Fandom, Feminism, Indigenous Mythology, and so forth. Although ...

A relatively early series of articles on sf has been collected in Barry N. Malzberg’s The Engines of the Night: Science Fiction in the Eighties (1982). The pieces gathered here were written in 1979/80 ...