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	Fictional universe - Definition, explanation
		Fictional universes are most common in, but not exclusive to, the science fiction and fantasy genres.
		A fictional universe is usually differentiated from the setting of, and the cosmology established by, ancient or modern legends, myths and religions, although there are countless fictional universes that draw upon such sources for inspiration.
		Fictional universes are sometimes shared by multiple authors, with each author's works in that universe being granted approximately equal canonical status.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/f/fi/fictional_universe.php (981 words)

	Fictional universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fictional universes are most common in, but not exclusive to, the science fiction and fantasy genres.
		A fictional universe is usually differentiated from the setting of, and the cosmology established by, ancient or modern legends, myths and religions, although there are countless fictional universes that draw upon such sources for inspiration.
		However, in the case of universes or universes that are rewritten or revised by different writers, editors or producers, this continuity may be violated, by accident or by design.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Science_fiction_universe (809 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.
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Science_fiction (1960 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Re'ol
		Ancient City of Atlantis Atlantis is a fictional, technologically advanced city, featured in the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis, the spin-off of Stargate SG-1, both of which are part of the Stargate science fiction setting.
		In the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, the alliance of four great races was an ancient alliance of four advanced species that was built over many millennia and existed before the rise of the Goauld and the Wraith.
		A fictional species in the sci-fi television show Stargate SG-1, the Unas, meaning the First Ones, are a race of large and primitive humanoids that evolved on the same planet as the Goauld.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Re%27ol (1881 words)

	fictional universe
		A fictional universe is a cohesive imaginary world that serves as the setting or backdrop for one or (more commonly) multiple works of fiction.
		Many universes written in one or both of these genres feature physical and metaphysical laws different from our own that allow for magical, psychic and various other types of paranormal phenomena, or the hypothesis may be based in a parallel universe which have some scientific theoretcial speculation like multiverse.
		Despite the name, a fictional universe does not necessarily concern an entire universe; for example, most of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer is set in a single Californian city Äî the "Buffyverse", and most of the action in the Harry Potter series occurs in and around a single school.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Fictional_universe.php (916 words)

	ipedia.com: Science fiction Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Soft science fiction is the subgenre where 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.
		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.
	www.ipedia.com /science_fiction_1.html (1944 words)

	Brain Parade Science Fiction’s Crystal Ball \| memetherapy
		Science Fiction is at its best when it constructs useful thought experiments about what may be or what is coming and does so in an entertaining fashion.
		Paul Levinson is a science fiction writer and a former president of the SFWA.
		Science carries within it the implicit belief that we can figure this stuff out, dammit: the universe operates consistently, with consistent rules, and we can learn what they are just as soon as we figure out how to pop the hood.
	memetherapy.net /01/brain-parade-science-fictions-crystal-ball (2023 words)

	SciFan: Writing Science Fiction
		To write a science fiction story would be like formulating a reply to all those years of listening.
		Now if you are really dedicated to the dream of becoming a science fiction writer, have some extra cash, and several weeks off from work, you can apply to one of the follow workshops: Clarion Writers Workshop, Clarion West, or Odyssey.
		Finally, be sure and visit our section on The Science in Science Fiction to catch up some of the technical and scientific ideas that go along with writing science fiction.
	www.scifan.com /fiction (1119 words)

	spiked \| What Inspired You? \| Dr Clifford A Pickover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Science fiction has had a profound effect on the evolution of scientific research, and the development of scientific theory.
		I like to think of science fiction as the literature of edges, because the topics are poised on the edge of what is and what might be.
		Isaac Asimov said that ‘science fiction is the only form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us, the possible consequences, and the possible solutions’.
	www.spiked-online.com /index.php?/inspired/article/1394 (349 words)

	Science Fiction
		Science fiction is an incubator for imaginative minds to create visions that help us to glimpse not only the future, but also something about ourselves in the present.
		The science fiction of the 20th century, he argues, not only created the concept of the robot but demonstrated the complexity of the threats, opportunities and moral dilemmas their arrival would spark.
		Science fiction, a term coined in the 1930s to distinguish the genre from the pulp fiction then becoming popular, carried on examining human morality by placing its characters into situations where some limiting problem had been overcome, such as time travel.
	www.aaai.org /AITopics/html/scifi.html (4840 words)

	Amazon.com: The Writer's Guide to Creating a Science Fiction Universe: Books: George Ochoa,Jeffrey Osier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Science of Aliens by Clifford A. Pickover
		It the various areas of science that a science fiction writer might find useful, with chapters devoted, inter alia, to: space and spaceships, planets and planet design, aliens, designing a future setting, nanotechnology, intelligent machines, bioengineering, and alternate universes.
		They also point up shining examples of science fiction stories that are based on particular concepts and make suggestions based on other ideas that haven't been fully mined yet.
	www.amazon.com /Writers-Creating-Science-Fiction-Universe/dp/0898795362 (1260 words)

	science fiction - chronology
		The concept of life different than ourselves is fascinating indeed, and science fiction writers seems to have covered every possible organic, non-organic, energy, multi-dimensional organism that could exist.
		This is the first science fiction realistically portraying aliens, and here the martians show similar colonization strategy as Wells native Britain did for most of the 19th century.
		Science fiction describing the effect of computers and computer derivatives on alternative culture is known as cyberpunk.
	library.thinkquest.org /27502/netscape/chrono.html (1973 words)

	World Building
		A working definition of SF If we define Fantastic Literature as fiction placed in a setting that is divergent from the reality the writer inhabits, then SF is that class of Fantastic Literature where this divergence is the result of a rational extrapolation of a change in the writer's reality.
		The core assumption of SF is that your fictional universe has rules, and the reader will expect you to not only know those rules, but to follow them.
		You, as the universe's creator, need to know enough of this past to give the reader a sense that this world existed before the story began, and will continue to exist (barring catastrophe) long afterwards.
	www.sff.net /people/SASwann/text/wb.htm (1991 words)

	Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Sawyer's Universe — Not!
		Creating a coherent single universe in SF means a lot more than just making a couple of centuries of space exploration consistent across a series of books.
		End of an Era supports the strong anthropic principle of theoretical physics —; that is, that our universe required the existence of life (so as to provide knowledgeable observers, thereby collapsing wavefronts into concrete reality).
		I plan someday to return to the universe of Golden Fleece and to the separate universe of the Quintaglios.
	www.sfwriter.com /rmsawyer.htm (406 words)

	The Space Review: Worthy of survival
		In fact, it is unlikely that any modern day science fiction will have anywhere near the influence that past examples of the genre have had.
		Many of the stories in the show’s early years were written by some of the best science fiction writers of the day, and over its three years on the air, Star Trek show tackled many complex social issues such as the war in Vietnam, racial prejudice, and the Cold War.
		Science fiction may still have a positive influence on those already inclined to view spaceflight in a positive manner.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/716/1 (2459 words)

	ez-online-shopping - Online Shopping,Best Buy Cheap Books Store : The Writer's Guide to Creating a Science Fiction ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is not a "how to write science fiction", but rather a handy reference book.
		It the various areas of science that a science fiction writer might find useful, with chapters devoted, inter alia, to: space and spaceships, planets and planet design, aliens, designing a future setting, nanotechnology, intelligent machines, bioengineering, and alternate universes.
		It covers chapter-by-chapter the various areas of science that a science fiction writer might find useful, starting (not surprisingly) with space and spaceships.
	www.ez-online-shopping.com /0898795362/The_Writers_Guide_to_Creating_a_Science_Fiction_Universe.html (438 words)

	How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
		Of course, in science fiction no pretense is made that the worlds described are real.
		Because, quite by accident, in the pursuit of a good yarn, a science fiction author or producer or scriptwriter might stumble onto the truth...
		The universe, then, is thinker and thought, and since we are part of it, we as humans are, in the final analysis, thoughts of and thinkers of those thoughts.
	www.deoxy.org /pkd_how2build.htm (8163 words)

	Wired 10.12: The New Convergence
		The American Association for the Advancement of Science now sponsors a "Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion." Science luminaries who in the '70s shrugged at faith as gobbledygook — including E. Wilson and the late Stephen Jay Gould and Carl Sagan — have endorsed some form of reconciliation between science and religion.
		Similarly in science, the pure materialistic view that reigned through the 20th century, holding that everything has a natural explanation, couldn't keep other viewpoints at bay forever.
		As recently as the '70s, intellectuals assumed that hard science was on track to resolve the two Really Big Questions: why life exists and how the universe began.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/10.12/convergence.html (927 words)

	JCLC -- Science Fiction/Fantasy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Frequently sardonic and impatient with the faults of her fellow humans, Dr. Calvin is frequently called upon to explain robot behavior that is incomprehensible to humans who are fearful of robots and prejudiced against them.
		I, Robot radically affected the way robots are perceived in science fiction, to the point where the Three Laws are now an accepted "fact" of the science fiction universe.
		This clever and inventive tale works on three levels: as an intriguing science fiction concept, a realistic character study and a touching love story.
	www.jclc.org /MaterialsLists/ra/2004June.asp (2337 words)

	National Novel Writing Month - Forums - Science Fiction - Real or Original galaxy/universe? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		They are very handy guides when creating a science fiction background.
		I agree that it doesnt matter if some of the science is proven wrong in the future.
		Science fiction is a world of maybe's not certainties.
	www.nanowrimo.org /modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=102114 (2389 words)

	The Website at the End of the Universe \| A science fiction community and weblog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		You may also be interested to learn that Abebooks also recently opened up two dedicated areas on their site, one for science fiction books and the other for fantasy titles.
		I only know about her because I stumbled across this story noting she has been nominated for the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy.
		One of the things that science fiction fans like to fetishize are vehicles.
	www.theendoftheuniverse.ca (1553 words)

	Imperial Wars multiplayer Internet online strategy role-playing space empire sci-fi game science fiction
		These pages are full of hints, fan fiction, and comradeship from the veterans and new players who come to share their wisdom.
		The IMPERIAL UNIVERSE Forums are a part of the Imperial Wars "Metagame" and a look inside the psyches of the Starlords engaged within their universes.
		Sandbox universes don't,...can't reflect the reflect the engaging quality of a universe filled with creative humans but they can demonstrate the game mechanics and style of play of Imperial Wars.
	www.imperialwars.com (859 words)

	NOVA Online \| Time Travel \| Traveling Through Time
		While this kind of clock is useful for everyday life, modern science finds that time can be warped in various ways, like clay in the hands of a cosmic sculptor.
		Newton also believed the universe was pervaded by a single absolute time that could be symbolized by an imaginary clock off somewhere in space.
		Because time is relative to the speed one is traveling at, there can never be a clock at the center of the universe to which everyone can set their watches.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/time/through.html (1083 words)

	Education Center Activity: Solar System Adventure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Writing a science fiction story is not only fun, but a great way to learn about science.
		Aspiring science fiction writers will find a treasure trove of ideas for future spaceship designs, orbital colonies, and more in the Visions of the Future section.
		Science fiction is often based on scientific principles and technology.
	www.eduplace.com /rdg/gen_act/advent/solar.html (508 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Science Fiction
		science fiction, literary genre to which a background of science or pseudoscience is integral.
		H.G. The appearance of the magazines _Amazing Stories_ (1926) and _Astounding Science Fiction_ (1937) encouraged good writing in the field, which was further spurred by post-World War II technological developments.
		Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today-but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
	fusionanomaly.net /sciencefiction.html (3256 words)

	Gourmet Food Shop >> Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Translate it from an extended universe to the city, the street...
		Herbert is talking about an extense universe but it's near in distance and relationship.
		All the incredible world of Dune itself is fabulous, the factions along the universe (the powers than tries to dominate or tries to update the human race), the fight of Atraides spirit against the terror...
	www.advancingwomen.com /gourmetfoodshop/index.php?Operation=CustomerReviews&ItemId=0441172717&ReviewPage=61 (527 words)

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