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  Science fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Science fiction is a form of fiction which deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals.
Soft science fiction is science fiction whose plots and themes tend to focus on philosophy, psychology, politics and sociology while de-emphasizing the details of technological hardware and physical laws.
The European brand of science fiction proper began, however, toward the end of the 19th century with the scientific romances of Jules Verne, whose science was rather on the level of invention, as well as the science-oriented novels of social criticism by H.G. Wells.
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 Science Fiction - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
One type of science fiction, which developed into a large subgenre, is the alternative history tale, wherein change is imagined at a crucial point in history, causing events turn out differently, resulting in a different world.
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.
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 Science Fiction Television Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Science fiction is one of the most eclectic and varied of all the genres of fiction.
Those programmes do not fit into the most common definition of "science fiction" (speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology or both upon society and persons as individuals and are perhaps more comfortably covered under the generic term "telefantasy").
One of the stalwarts of science fiction television in its early decades was to be the anthology series, in which a completely new story would be presented with each episode, with new actors, settings and situations, the only link being the producers, genre and the series title.
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 Science fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Science fiction is a form of fiction which deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science (and/or technology) upon society or individuals.
Science fiction literature strongly benefitted from this heightened interest and science fiction or fantasy titles frequently filled the bestseller lists well into the 1980s.
Science fiction became international, extending into the then Soviet Union and other eastern European nations, where it was frequently used as a vehicle for political commentary that could not be safely published in other forms.
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 Science fiction on television - SciFi/Fantasy Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Science fiction is perhaps the most eclectic and certainly one of the most varied of all the genres of fiction.
Gradually, television producers began to realise that there was just as much of an appetite for science fiction amongst adult audiences as there was amongst the young, potentially even more so.
Television began to cater for this perhaps more cerebral type of science fiction viewer, possibly inspired by the boom of literary science fiction by the likes of Isaac Asimov which was beginning to take place, or by the rise of the allegorical science-fiction movies that permeated the decade.
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 Science fiction sitcom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The science fiction sitcom genre is a relatively new one having started significant growth only during the last few decades of the twentieth century.
Most of the comic science fiction in this genre is considered lightweight compared to the mainstream.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 -- A man and two robots are trapped in orbit and are forced to watch bad movies.
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 List of science fiction television programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Science Fiction Television Web Encyclopedia A-to-Z list of genre-related series, including fare from the US, the UK, and Japan, with number of episodes in each.
Roswell the Television Show Science Fiction Theories Archives fans' analysis of the science fiction and mythology of the series.
Fiction in which science is a key element.
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 Science Fiction Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sometimes, utopic and dystopic literature is regarded as science fiction (accurate insofar as sociology is science); however, dystopic literature sometimes falls under the cyberpunk genre.
While most science fiction is set in the future, most authors are not attempting to predict; instead, they use the future as an open framework for their themes.
Radio science fiction began by adapting Buck and Flash stories for radio, but later brought some of the best magazine science fiction to a larger audience with Dimension X and X Minus One, which adapted stories by Heinlein, Asimov, Leiber, and other major writers for radio.
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 Science fiction on television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Concerning a future world in which robots rise up against their human masters, it was the only piece of science fiction to be produced by the BBC before the Corporation closed its television service down for the duration of the World War IISecond World War in September 1939/.
These shows weren’t true science fiction – the wonder of the previously unimagined was missing, as was the impact of science and technology on society.
Science fiction on television Science fiction in anime
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 Science fiction television - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Science fiction as a televisual form has a complex and convoluted ancestry and has made some significant contributions to the development of the entire genre, as well as producing plenty of misfires.
Many television science fiction productions borrow ideas from the film industry, in particular the use of digital manipulation, and are now comparable in production standards, if not in scale, with science fiction films.
Many series which started in television, including Star Trek and The X-Files, have made the transition to cinema with varying degrees of success; many successful science fiction films have also been reprised as a television series, for example Alien Nation and Stargate.
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 James Blish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Blish also wrote criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr.
Perhaps his most famous works were the 'Okies' stories in Astounding Science Fiction, known collectively as the 'Cities in Flight'.
Blish wrote criticism of science fiction (some quite scathing) under the name of William Atheling Jr.: the articles were reprinted in two collections, The Issue at Hand (1964) and More Issues at Hand (1970).
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 Science Fiction On Television   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
My interests in science fiction range from fantasy to hard-core and I tend to prefer trilogies because it gives me more to read.
I have watched most of the science fiction series that have been on television.
Footnote #1: The science fiction definition of a trilogy is three to twenty books.
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 List of science fiction television programs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of television shows with significant science fiction elements.
Land of the Lost (and its 1991 remake)
The Avengers (many fantastic and science fictional elements)
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 Top 50 Science Fiction Television Shows of All Time - Boston.com
With the resurgence of science fiction shows this season, Boston.com's entertainment staff decided to take a look at some of the sci-fi genre shows from yesteryear.
Based on years of sci fi viewing experience and through a variety of online sources, we've come up with our picks for the Top 50 science fiction shows of all time.
Starting the list at Number 50: Earth - Final Conflict,' which aired from 1997 to 2002.
www.boston.com /ae/tv/gallery/topscifishows   (155 words)

  
 Reading Resources selected by Skokie Public Library: Science Fiction & Fantasy Home
This comprehensive index to award-winning science fiction, fantasy, and horror materials is presented by Locus Magazine and can be searched by award, author, and year.
This index and the awards compiled here range from professional honors to reader polls, academic prizes, and awards made by the community of "fans" who are devoted to the literary science fiction genre.
Other goals are to build a comprehensive and accurate database of science fiction and fantasy writers with bibliographies, biographies, pictures, new book releases and series, and links to relevant websites.
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 Search for List Of Science Fiction Television Programs - WordIQ.com
Find list of science fiction television programs and more at Lycos Search.
Read about list of science fiction television programs in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
Find science fiction news, reviews, sci-fi games and more at the best sci-fi portal on the web.
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 List Of Science Fiction Television Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
We may find some answers in science fiction movies...
A science fiction reader, he decided mankind would need more than...
Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse...
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 CHRONOLOGICAL TV page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
This falls within the definition of science fiction, in that it explicitly relates science and technology and their effect on human beings.
In the television series (but not the novel or films) the dog Neil appears; in Thorne Smith's story, the Kirbys were killed in a car crash rather than on a ski trip, and hence there was no co-perishing co-haunting dog.
Disguised as an upper-crust professor of "animal behavioral sciences" at New York University, he was an ally to the police and a terror to criminals.
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 TV page of ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
There are 224 television shows' hotlinks here, limited to 245 shows broadcast in the United States (wherever originated), and 246 shows listed with no hotlinks currently known to this compiler for a total of 534 television shows and/or hotlinks from the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, France, and the world.
Based on Sax Rohmer's fictional creations of 1908-1910, there is a politically incorrect tinge of "yellow peril" racism in these episodes today, which was also common in the Australian science fiction of its day.
That is, in my opinion, "Andromeda" is Space Opera without the deep politics of literary science fiction, or the exuberent fun of, say, "5th Element." The Nietzcheans back-stab the Commonwealth, Hunt has little choice but to order his crew to abandon ship, and fling Andromeda Ascendant into a fl hole.
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 Science Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
E-scape publishes science fiction, fantasy and horror, along with game reviews, convention schedules/announcements, and other articles of interest to fandom.
Award for the work of science fiction or fantasy published in one year which best explores or expands gender roles.
A science fiction store in Cupertino, carrying new and used books, comics, artwork, collectibles, sci-fi/anime video for sale or rent, and T-shirts.
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 Boston Science Fiction TV
Science Fiction TV Boston Massachusetts, USA, schedules for current science fiction television shows.
SFTV: Science Fiction TV Shows Upcoming Episodes: An excellent site/mailing list of upcoming episode titles.
Excite's Daily Television Grid: Enter a zipcode for local listings.
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 science fiction television - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word science fiction television:
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "science fiction television" is defined.
Phrases that include science fiction television: list of science fiction television
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 List of BBC television programming Details, Meaning List of BBC television programming Article and Explanation Guide
An incomplete list of popular BBC produced shows and shows originally produced for BBC TV:
List of British TV shows remade for the American market
This is an Article on List of BBC television programming.
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 Slacker's Sci-Fi Source - A Universe of Science Fiction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sci-Fi on TV Listings: Here you will find a comprehensive, up-to-date TEN-day listing of broadcast and cable Science Fiction TV shows.
Classic television favorites including fun pages, sounds, images, and interesting facts about your favorite television shows from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s like Star Trek, Wonder Woman, Batman and many more.
This website is devoted to the wide variety of paranormal and SF media, especially as it pertains to television shows of the past thirty-five years.
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 Chicago Science Fiction and Fantasy Discussion List (CHICAGO-SCIFI)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is the Science Fiction and Fantasy Discussion List for the Chicago, Illinois region.
The purpose of Chicago-SciFi is for the discussion of movies, television shows, books, public events or even general concepts by the denizens of Chicago and the surrounding region.
If you are looking for mailing lists about specific Science Fiction & Fantasy topics, see our Other Resources page.
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 ULTIMATE SCIENCE FICTION WEB GUIDE
AUTHORS: annotated list of 3,284 links, last updated 22 August 2004; also some brief notes on 6,108 authors and pseudonyms NOT on the Internet, last updated 11 August 2004, for a total of 9,392 authors' hotlinks or names or pseudonyms or notes.
This is the largest on-line encyclopedia of science fiction authors (which includes copious external hotlinks and e-mail links) known to exist.
Science Fiction author Brian Dana Akers says: I'm most impressed by the sheer volume of information available and the original editorial material you provide.
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 Bambooweb: Bionic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
1: '''''The Bionic Woman''''' was a television series which sp...
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 The SF Site: The Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Pulp science fiction may be an acquired taste, but what better time to acquire it than when you're young?
And if you're older, all the better, for you'll have the proper background to truly appreciate the fine, full bouquet of a good, meaty pulp sf story -- as well as the postmodern layers of self-deprecating humor and deft message of empowerment knitted into this book.
The BSFA Awards are presented annually by the British Science Fiction Association, based on a vote of BSFA members and -- in most recent years -- members of the British national SF convention (Eastercon).
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 Fanboy's Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention list.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
They provide fans ("fen") an opportunity to get together with people who share common interests, meet a favorite author or television/movie star, and if nothing else, rest content in the knowledge that although they may be weird after all, at least they're not alone.
On these pages you'll find listings for conventions dedicated to Science Fiction, Fantasy, Gaming, and more.
When calling by phone, don't call collect and don't call too late in the evening (many organizers list their home phone numbers).
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