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In "For a Foggy Night", another many-worlds story, a math professor crosses the street from his hotel through a dense fog to go to a bar. There he has a conversation with a stranger who tells him that the fog results from the collision of many universes and the probability that something like the fuzzy objects exist in a preponderance of the ...
So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy (2004) is an English language anthology of science fiction and fantasy short stories by African, Asian, South Asian, and Indigenous authors, as well as North American and British writers of colour, [1] edited by the writer Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan.
Beyond Time and Space is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by American writer August Derleth.It was first published by Pellegrini & Cudahy in 1950. Several of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines The Century, The Atlantic Monthly, The Strand, Blue Book, Blackwood's Magazine, Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, Astounding Stories, Maclean's, The American Legion Magazine ...
"A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...
"Idiot Stick" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight. It first appeared in a 1958 issue of Star Science Fiction and has been reprinted a number of times, including in Star Science Fiction Stories No. 4 (1958) and Far Out (1961).
First appearance: Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1966. [3] A Known Space story. The 15-man team setting up the first base on Mars experience tragedy when a murder is committed. Carter, the murderer, in the process of escaping on one of the transportation buggies crashes through the plastic bubble which holds in the base's atmosphere in an ...
want to call them. Instead why not embrace a science-based approach: read on as we weigh up the evidence and come to a scientific conclusion about reality. With science you can build a complex explanation for an observation as high as a house of cards or you could invoke Occam’s razor and shave it down to the essential facts.
"The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" is a 1969 science fiction short story by James Tiptree Jr. (a pen name for American psychologist Alice Sheldon). [1] The story was first published in Galaxy Science Fiction , [ 2 ] but has since been reprinted at least 44 times in various anthologies and publications, earning a position as one of the most ...