science fiction
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sci·ence fic·tion
(abbr.: SF or Sci Fi)
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n.
fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.
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Science-fictions writer Farmer dies in Peoria
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 2/26/2009; ; 600 words
; ...PEORIA - One of the last living science-fiction writers from the genre's golden...Fire and the Night," a non- science-fiction look at race relations...worker himself, is legendary among science fiction fans for many achievements...
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Intra-active: the child/animal in children's SF.(science fictions)(Essay)
Magazine article from: Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...elucidated in the area of feminist science studies. This growing critical...that is responsible science which acts or intra-acts between the sciences and the humanities. In Barad...act' signifies a primary science studies argument; that...many contemporary literary fictions with ...
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A LOOK AT . . . Reproductive Reactions; Science Fictions: Cloning Is Bad And Septuplets Are Good
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/14/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...the stunning advance in medical science that brought us Dolly, there is...actually are, and is grounded more in science fiction -- in notions of co-opting personal identity -- than in science. Our positive reaction to the...
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Science Fictions: a Scientific Mystery, a Massive Cover-up, and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo. (Political booknotes: lab rat).
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; SCIENCE FICTIONS: A Scientific Mystery, a Massive Cover...s downfall. The first 100 pages of Science Fictions only deepened my sense of burden...all over again," his aunt Emma said. Science Fictions is ultimately a scientific detective...
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Love in the time of cloning: science fictions of transgressive kinship.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Extrapolation; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; Science fiction has long played with the...perspective of various cloning fictions, a resource that fruitfully...possible answers from recent fiction, I ask: how might this...as I will discuss, clone fictions complicate any assumption...
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Fredric Jameson. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions.(Book review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. New York / London. Verso...insisted on the importance of science fiction, and in this latest work he...and future, the insistence of science fiction on imagining a future...
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Archaeologies of the Future: the Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions.(book review)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Afterimage; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...DESIRE CALLED UTOPIA AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTIONS by Fredric Jameson. Verso...artificially only as a genre of science fiction. But Jameson not only wants...the literature and cinema of science fiction--Jameson extends his...
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Death at the Parasite Cafe: Social Science (Fictions) and the Postmodern.
Magazine article from: Public Interest; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Sociology/ Postmodern Theory/Fiction." The jacket-copy of the...is a disturbing theoretical fiction of contemporary shifts from...deconstructive ethnography, and social science fiction." Their goal is to...in this book. Real social science and research are still being...
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BL Publishing.(science fictions)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Bookwatch; 2/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...These new Warhammer titles are excellent pick for science fiction libraries strong in military sci fi and fantasy...action is superb and any library strong in military science fiction will want these. Steven Savile's INHERITANCE...
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Archaeologies of the future; the desire called utopia and other science fictions.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2006; 454 words
; ...the future; the desire called utopia and other science fictions. Jameson, Fredric. Verso 2005 431 pages $35...today by the visions of utopia that are central to science fiction. In order to shed light on the genre and its potential...
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Science Fiction
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
Science Fiction Science fiction is the genre of stories and...laws of mathematics and the physical sciences, or on the use of technology as currently...into the realm of fantasy rather than science fiction. Most science fiction plots...
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science fiction
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
science fiction literary genre in which a background...Campbell, Jr., founded Astounding Science Fiction in 1937. In that magazine much attention...Raymond F. Jones, and Robert Sheckley. Science fiction has established itself as a legitimate...
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Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool, see EVERYMAN THEATRE , Liverpool.
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What's Everyone Reading? Popular Fiction and Nonfiction
Book article from: American Decades
...EVERYONE READING? POPULAR FICTION AND NONFICTION Unusual Best...subjects, romance novels and science fiction and fantasy were in...purpose and audience. Certain science-fiction and fantasy writers...did many of the writers of science fiction's New Wave, including...
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fantasy fiction
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...distinguished from fantasy fiction, a genre in some respects...writers in a period dominated by science and by a rationalistic world...see Dodgson ). Fantasy fiction, however, began to win a...The location of Dunsany's fictions is characteristically unstated...Faerie. The essence of fantasy ...
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