Discovery (fiction)

Discovery (fiction) - Factbites
Where results make sense
About us | Why use us? | Reviews | PR | Contact us

Topic: Discovery (fiction)

Note: these results are not from the primary (high quality) database.

In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	AddALL.com - Travel Fact and Travel Fiction: Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery and Observation in Travel Writing
		Travel Fact and Travel Fiction: Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery and Observation in Travel Writing
		AddALL.com - Travel Fact and Travel Fiction: Studies on Fiction, Literary Tradition, Scholarly Discovery and Observation in Travel Writing
		If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too!
	www3.addall.com /detail/9004101128.html (84 words)

	Arthur C Clarke Bibliography
		In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind - and this is one of them!"
		Frontline of Discovery: Science on the Brink of Tomorrow
		Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science Fiction
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /authors/Arthur_C_Clarke.htm (84 words)

	The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: Judges and Alumni
		His short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Science Fiction Age, Realms of Fantasy, Electric Velocipede, Salon, and elsewhere.
		In 1985 Rychlak was awarded a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation for a residency at the Bellagio Study Center in Italy and in 1990 she won the Prix de Rome at the American Academy in Rome.
		She is currently on the Jury of the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards and the Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America.
	www.scholastic.com /artandwritingawards/jurorbios.htm (8922 words)

	Social and Political Novel III
		Great fiction appears to discover facts by giving us the impression that our reading of the text completes the bottom half of a discovery whose plaintive stalk the writer has merely uncovered.
		Perhaps this illusion of discovery, the uncovering of a world which is related to, but not continuous with, the known world, is fiction’s greatest beauty: fiction’s false bottom.
		Meanwhile the form of fiction at its best can be a great summons to our imaginations and other aspects of our minds to come alive far beyond simple levels of perception, let alone memorization of fact and trivia.
	www.politicalnovel.org /socialandpoliticalnovelIII.html (3234 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of fictional spaceships
		Discovery One is a fictional spacecraft shown in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
		In the fictional Farscape universe, Talyn is a Peacekeeper/Leviathan hybrid gunship, a living spaceship that is the progeny of the Leviathan Moya.
		Science fiction of a military orientation is rife with huge fleets of combat starships plying the galaxy, engaging each other in titanic exchanges of missile and laser fire.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-fictional-spaceships (3234 words)

	Sociological Science Fiction Defined
		Where hard science fiction looks at how a character uses a particular gadget or discovery, soft science fiction is more likely to look at the gadget's impact on a society or how a person reacts to the discovery.
		Hard science fiction includes physics, mechanics, biology and other sciences where the results are supposedly predictable whether the science is pulled from thin air or extrapolated from existing research.
		Soft science fiction focuses on the intangible sciences, such as psychology and anthropology.
	fmwriters.com /Visionback/Issue19/themesoc.htm (1171 words)

	Encyclopedia: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
		Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals.
		He brings them aboard his stolen spaceship, the Heart of Gold, whose crew rounds out the main cast of characters: Marvin the Paranoid Android (a severely depressed robot), and Trillian, a woman known by Arthur as the only other surviving human being.
		Briefly reunited with the others for a trip to Milliways, the restaurant of the title, Zaphod and Trillian discover that the Universe is in the safe hands of a simple man living on a remote planet in a wooden shack with his cat.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Hitchhiker%27s-Guide-to-the-Galaxy (1171 words)

	The Templeton Gate - Authors - Arthur C. Clarke
		Concerning the discovery of an ancient alien artifact on the Moon, this story would later be credited as the genesis for the screenplay of the landmark SF film 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick.
		His journey of discovery takes him from his sheltered existence in the domed city of Diaspar, to another such utopian enclave, known as Lys, in which the emphasis is on a closeness to nature.
		His fiction output dwindled considerably by the mid-60s, but 1971 saw his return with the excellent (and award-winning) "A Meeting with Medusa," concerning a cyborg explorer of the dense atmosphere of Jupiter.
	members.tripod.com /templetongate/clarke.htm (1171 words)

	HAL wasn't the answer
		As the brain of the spaceship Discovery in Stanley Kubrick's movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" (and in Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novel of the same name), HAL is certainly famous, as computers go, even fictional ones.
		For example, even though Discovery is hurtling through space, a real ship seen in real space would not appear to be moving in relation to distant stars, but that would have looked odd on a movie screen.
		Unlike many popular science fiction movies, especially the Star Trek and Star Wars efforts, "2001" made an effort to be realistic about the science being portrayed.
	www.paloaltoonline.com /weekly/morgue/monthly/1997_Feb_5.HAL.html (1171 words)

	Recommended
		The best space fiction novel in 40 years portrays the desperate last ditch attempt of a Chelomei-like Chief Designer to put a cosmonaut on the moon before the Americans.
		Caidin was the most prolific 'space fiction' writer and this is his best known work.
		A fictional story set against the background of real events of the Soviet lunar program in the late 1960's.
	www.astronautix.com /articles/recended.htm (1171 words)

	ArtForum: The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Discovery, the Investigation, the Debate. - book reviews
		ArtForum: The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Discovery, the Investigation, the Debate.
		The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Discovery, the Investigation, the Debate.
		Visitors to Madame Tussaud's in 1974 ranked Jack the Ripper~ third on a list o most hated and feared (edged out only by Adolph Hitler and Richard Nixon).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n7_v32/ai_15329489 (411 words)

	Interview with Lee Upton
		I've come to need to write fiction now, too, and I think that the genre has its own rewards that no other genre offers in quite the same concentration--that sense of almost casual discovery, the sort of discovery at the level of the scene that differs somehow from work in scenes in poetry.
		Writing longer fiction has allowed me more readily to experiment with different sorts of tones and possibilities and conceptions in all my work, and has even afforded me a greater sense of ease in poetry.
		The pressure on the individual word in fiction isn't the same as in poetry; you have to discipline yourself to tread more lightly so that an almost orchestral effect begins to take shape in fiction.
	www.adirondackreview.homestead.com /interviewupton.html (3274 words)

	SPACE.com -- SETI and the Smallest Stars
		So for now, M dwarf constitute only a small fraction of the SETI target list, and until the discovery comes, SETI scientists are going to take their best crack at answering these questions with pen and paper.
		Seriously though, it may be that some of these issues can only be resolved through the discovery of inhabited M star planets.
		Astrobiologists arent the types to give up easily, and we know there are ways to get around all these difficulties.
	www.space.com /searchforlife/seti_turnbull_040429.html (1083 words)

	Shapeshifting fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Science fictional TF fiction tends to feed a sense of discovery and suggest the unlocking of potential.
		Transformation fiction (TF fiction) occurs most commonly in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres, though examples show up in other genres as well.
		Transformation fiction has been around at least since the early Greeks in their mythology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shapeshifting_fiction (1083 words)

	Shapeshifting fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Science fictional TF fiction tends to feed a sense of discovery and suggest the unlocking of potential.
		Shapeshifting or transformation fiction is a genre in fiction which deals with physical transformation, usually called shapeshifting.
		Fantasy TF fiction is often mystical or dynamic, focusing on the change of the person's identity when transformed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shapeshifting_fiction (536 words)

	Learn more about Detective fiction in the online encyclopedia.
		The Mystery of Marie Roget is particularly interesting, as it is a scarcely fictionalized analysis of the circumstances around the real-life discovery of the body of a young woman named Mary Rogers, in which Poe expounds his theory of what actually happened.
		A branch of crime fiction, detective fiction is the fictional genre centered around an investigation by a detective, usually in the form of the investigation of a murder.
		A beginner to detective fiction, would generally be advised against reading anything about a piece of detective fiction (such as a blurb or an Introduction) before reading the text itself.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /d/de/detective_fiction.html (1608 words)

	Lucinda MacKethan, An Overview of Southern Literature by Genre
		The labeling of women’s fiction as "domestic" reflects the idea that women belonged in the home, that politics and public life were inappropriate for women, and that their natural "sphere" was to inculcate, in their children, the morals needed for gendered roles in society.
		The slave narrator him or herself was encouraged to leave inner revelations, such as expressions of self-discovery and individuality, in the background and to foreground the verifiable facts of representative slave experience, without adornment.
		Slave narratives were potent weapons in the abolition arsenal, especially with the rise of organized abolition societies in the 1830s.
	www.southernspaces.org /contents/2004/mackethan/5b.htm (1608 words)

	Raymond Williams- Utopia and Science Fiction
		The type of fiction is little affected whether the discovery is made by a space voyage or a sea voyage.
		It can be agreed that the two fictions exemplify the difference between a willed general transformation and a technological transformation; that More projects a commonwealth, in which men live and feel differently, while Bacon projects a highly specialised, unequal but affluent and efficient social order.
		Consider three utopian fictions of the late nineteenth century: Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race (1871); Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward (1888); William Morris's News from Nowhere (1890).
	www.depauw.edu /sfs/backissues/16/williams16art.htm (1608 words)

	Social and Political Novel III
		Perhaps this illusion of discovery, the uncovering of a world which is related to, but not continuous with, the known world, is fiction’s greatest beauty: fiction’s false bottom.
		Wood thinks novelists should use less information and less social reality and abstraction because such phenomena do not function aesthetically in fiction, since they are not closely related to the essence and depths of character and the human condition, at least not in revealing ways.
		This is great writing, great art, great satire, as far as it goes, lively and deeply social engaged, and important in ways that Edmund Wilson and scores of other critics and novelists have understood fiction to be effective, as a living, enlightening and influential mode of knowledge and experience.
	www.politicalnovel.org /socialandpoliticalnovelIII.html (3234 words)

	Definitions of Science Fiction
		Science fiction is story-telling, usually imaginative as distinct from realistic fiction, which poses the effects of current or extrapolated scientific discoveries, or a single discovery, on the behavior of individuals of society.
		In its [science fiction's] aim it is bound, by its extrapolation of science and its use of dramatic plot, to view man and his machines and his environment as a three-fold whole, the machine being the hyphen.
		Science fiction is that branch of fantasy, which, while not true to present-day knowledge, is rendered plausible by the reader's recognition of the scientific possibilities of it being possible at some future date or at some uncertain point in the past.
	www.panix.com /~gokce/sf_defn.html (3234 words)

	WritersResources.com - Genre Doesn't Have to Mean Generic
		Genre fiction readers, whether they are partial to gothic romances or wild west shootouts, look for many of the same elements in their fiction: a strong story plot, intriguing characters, innovative ideas, a sense of discovery and wonder, and a new way to understand the human struggle.
		The terms "genre" and "formula fiction" are often used to connote writing that is unimaginative, unoriginal and predictable.
		Genre fiction does not have to be a generic retelling of a tired-out formula.
	www.writersresources.com /articles/article_3.shtml (441 words)

	Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals.
		A science fiction writer is generally not trying to write a history of the future that they believe will happen, any more than a writer of westerns is trying to create a historically accurate depiction of the old West.
		The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternative histories (which often have no particular scientific or futuristic component), and even literary stories where the only fantastic element is the strangeness of their style.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Science_fiction (1960 words)

	Dr. Quinn Insight Fan Fiction Corner - "The Wish"
		He found himself wishing more than anything to be there, to partake in that joy of discovery, to break the wall between them by sharing her world.
		And he found himself wishing he were there, at her feet, his head resting on her knees, listening to her stories, her soft voice reading chapter upon chapter from the books, not caring what or whom they were about.
		He could hear her laughter, her joy, and wished he were part of it.
	www.drquinninsight.com /fanfic_corner/stories/wish.html (1960 words)

	Untitled sequel to Dark Discovery - Relic Entertainment Message Boards
		The Tiamat vessel withdrew and began laying a blanket of firepower, the strike craft fled into the hangar bays, pursued by the hordes of fighters not affected.
		The Tiamat drone bobbed silently, hushed whispers in the creaky voice of the Timat discussed and chattered rapidly and silently.
		Dozens of small Tiamat craft, Black Acolytes, the Tiamat Beserkers, several extremely powerful swarmers, and a unknown vessel, now recorded in the databanks as a Tiger class frigate.
	www.strategyplanet.com /homeworld/rbarchive/fiction/sequelDarkDiscovery1.htm (9818 words)

	History and Definition of Science Fiction
		He identified his material thus: "A piece of scientific fiction is a narrative of an imaginary invention or discovery in the natural sciences and consequent adventures and experiences.
		It is a fictional exploration of human situations made perceptible by the implications of recent science.
		Oddly enough, the most obvious element in the magazine sf that is the initial focus of nearly all of these earlier definitions is not much mentioned in them: the overwhelming majority of the sf of this period -- especially in the USA -- was set in the future.
	alcor.concordia.ca /~talfred/sf-def.htm (9818 words)

	Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals.
		A science fiction writer is generally not trying to write a history of the future that they believe will happen, any more than a writer of westerns is trying to create a historically accurate depiction of the old West.
		The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternative histories (which often have no particular scientific or futuristic component), and even literary stories where the only fantastic element is the strangeness of their style.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Science_fiction (1960 words)

	Literary Fiction
		Ice Lake is the second thriller for John Farrow, the pseudonym for an acclaimed literary fiction writer from Canada.
		Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of Crescent, which was awarded the 2004 PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and was named one of the twenty best novels of...
		The discovery of a frozen corpse in a small town lake unleashes chilling intrigue among the cops,...
	www.growinglifestyle.co.uk /uk/j717303 (1960 words)

	Common-place: Doctrines of Discovery
		The Court found that such a sale was not legal, precisely because, in the opinion of the Court, the U.S. held absolute title to Indian lands.
		These laws became the constitutional rationale for the three major legal cases that to this day form the foundation of federal Indian law.
		Like all bodies of knowledge that claim objectivity, the subjectivity of the law--its social, cultural, political, and economic biases--can be located in the narratives that underlie it but that are rarely brought into play in contemporary legal practice.
	www.common-place.org /vol-02/no-01/cheyfitz/cheyfitz-3.shtml (1228 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Topic: Discovery (fiction)

Ads by Google

Related Topics

In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)