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Pages in category "Characters in written science fiction" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Adrian Helmsley – geologist, chief science advisor to U.S. President Thomas Wilson; Charlie Frost, – fringe science conspiracy theorist and radio talk-show host. Killed in the scene where Yellowstone Caldera erupted; Jackson Curtis, – struggling science-fiction writer; Satnam Surtani, – astrophysicist
George Williams, in his review for The Australian, said that "the concepts explored in House of Suns are so far removed from our time, and even from much of the standard fare of science fiction, that parts of the book border on fantasy. The author does carry off a story conceived on a scale rarely seen in science fiction.
Attack from Atlantis is one of the thirty-five juvenile novels that comprise the Winston Science Fiction set, which were published in the 1950s for a readership of teen-aged boys. The typical protagonist in these books was a boy in his late teens who was proficient in the art of electronics, a hobby that was easily available to the readers.
[5] UK book review site The Bookbag remarked that "... what sets this book apart is the quality of the writing and the depth of the author's imagination." [ 6 ] On an episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast in 2022, the artist Grimes said that Surface Detail is the greatest science fiction book ever written.
Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006. It won the Seiun Award for the best novel in Japanese translation (where it is published by Tokyo Sogensha) [2] and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel, [3] the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, [4] and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction ...
Friday is a 1982 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It is the story of a female "artificial person", the eponymous Friday, genetically engineered to be stronger, faster, smarter, and generally better than normal humans. Artificial humans are widely resented, and much of the story deals with Friday's struggle both ...
Mortal Engines is a young adult science fiction novel by Philip Reeve, published by Scholastic UK in 2001. The book focuses on a futuristic, steampunk version of London, now a giant machine striving to survive on a world that is running out of resources. Mortal Engines is the first book of a series, the Mortal Engines Quartet, published from ...