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Over the course of my observations of science-minded people and actual scientists over the years, I have noticed an extreme level of belligerency towards the realm of science fiction, as well as a large bias against it, especially so among actual scientists...
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"Soft" science fiction, the kind you call "fantasy", seems: : That's what I'm talking....
Some well know scientists " authors
That's what I'm talking about .
Noticed scientists being belligerent towards science fiction in general.
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Well... this has certainly been popping up in threads I started and it probably deserves its own little debate. What should Tommorrowland represent today? Should it be the popular money making franchises and original ideas that are both steeped in the...
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Most of the ....
Science fiction often eventually becomes science fact (see, e.g., Star Trek Communicators).
Tomorrowland could take you, folks.
Is already weirder, wilder and more spectacular than most science fiction.
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Glenn Kenny
MSN.com
The science-fiction genre has been around almost as long as movies themselves have.
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In case someone wanted to know: : "Independence Day" is probably one of the worst science fiction movies of all time.
Is probably one of the worst science fiction movies of all time.
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Identify science fiction novel
May 24, 2012 5:55 PM Subscribe A science fiction book set in a post-apocalyptic world that has been snowed in.
The book might be entitled simply "Snow." Probably published in the '90s or early '00s.
The earth has been covered...
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Yeah, it's not Time of the Great Freeze.....
Also possible is Robert Silverberg's novel Time of the Great Freeze, though that one is more glaciers than snow .
The set-up sounds like Fritz Lieber's terrific "A Pail of Air," , but that's a story, not a book .
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I'd appreciate any suggestions for fantasy/science fiction books for a 20-year-old guy--I'm way out of my league. Thanks.
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You'll probably bounce on Teckla, but it's worth reading (once in the classics, so I'd ... .
His novels are some of the best science fiction I have/ a science fiction background story.
Just about anything sci-fi by Iain M Banks.
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...according to yours truly. I begin with a classic science fiction category:
Best Android: Roy Batty ( Blade Runner )
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More Science Fiction becomes Science Fact Don't like needles? The Hypospray looks like it's soon going to become a reality..
Grant
Chairperson,
Toronto Prelude Club
Black 1995 SR <><
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Re: More Science Fiction becomes Science Fact McCoy will be happy!.
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I've only seen a few decent ones, so I need some suggestions. What are the best science fiction movies you've seen?
Share your thoughts
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Sci-fi (it's technically science fiction, but it doesn't really have any of the sci-fi cliches you'd science fiction and sci-fi?
Most of the films listed so far are sci-fi bordering on fantasy (some cross that border completely....
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Inspired by HJ's race thread, a flat-out poll, where you can only vote the once.
And, yes, I purposefully put fantasy before science fiction. As any rational person would.
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The Unfinished....
Fantasy for me, too, although I do read some science fiction from time to time SF.
I am just now starting to read some Science Fiction, but I still prefer Fantasy.
That I read, and some historical fiction.
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NPR
August 11, 2011
More than 5,000 of you nominated. More than 60,000 of you voted. And now the results are in. The winners of NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy survey are an intriguing mix of classic and contemporary titles.
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy seems to be the favorite science fiction book of people who don't read science ....
The winners of NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy survey choices.
And now the results are in.
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