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  2. Definitions of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    "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 ...

  3. Profanity in science fiction - Wikipedia

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    He advises writers that "less is more", and that if it really is the right thing for a character to be "salty", it should be made clear to the reader why, observing as an example that in his science fiction novel Limbo Search the profanity used by character Janice Tyne is a symptom of her fear and tension, caused by being burned out at age 27 ...

  4. Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy

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    On the structural analysis of science fiction; Science fiction : a hopeless case – with exceptions ("a more polemic version" of a chapter from Science Fiction and Futurology [1]) Philip K. Dick : a visionary among the charlatans (an afterword to the 1975 Polish translation of Ubik [2]) The time-travel story and related matters of science ...

  5. Wikipedia:Salting is usually a bad idea - Wikipedia

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    The key question is whether it seems more important to the repeat-creators to add their content at a specific title, or just anywhere they can. In the former case, salting may in fact be a good idea. Examples include: When you really do want to keep an honest person honest. This applies to two cases:

  6. On the Writing of Speculative Fiction - Wikipedia

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    On the Writing of Speculative Fiction" is an essay by American science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was first published in 1947, also appearing in Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy: 20 Dynamic Essays By the Field's Top Professionals in 1993, and The Nonfiction of Robert Heinlein: Volume I in 2011.

  7. Behind 'Cat Person': How new film adapts divisive dating ...

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    Written for the screen by Michelle Ashford, Cat Person stars Emilia Jones (Coda) as Margot, a 20-year-old college sophomore who works behind the concession stand of a arthouse movie theater.After ...

  8. Outline of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Science fiction genre – while science fiction is a genre of fiction, a science fiction genre is a subgenre within science fiction. Science fiction may be divided along any number of overlapping axes. Gary K. Wolfe's Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy identifies over 30 subdivisions of science fiction, not including science fantasy ...

  9. Asimov on Science Fiction - Wikipedia

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    Asimov on Science Fiction (ISBN 0-586-05840-0) is a 1981 non-fiction work by American writer and scientist Isaac Asimov. It is a collection of short essays dealing with various aspects of science fiction. Many of the essays are (slightly edited versions of) editorials from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.