Phantom Duel byFord McCormack-Infinity Science Fiction,1955 Faria, as it was called in the Vega system, was about the size of Earth and its atmosphere was tolerable to humans -- there the resemblance all but ended. For its weather was insufferably hot and its topography fantastically tortuous...
根据后句It'sonethingtohaveagreatideaorsituation,butthatdoesn'tmeanyouhaveastory.Whilesciencefictionnovelsareoftenthoughtexperiments,theyalsocan'tjustbethoughtexperiments.Thatmeansyou'regoingtohavetocomeupwithanappealingstorythatbringsthesequestionstolife表示"有一个好的想法或情况是一回事,但这并不意味着你有...
More life at the first stars? The very first stars consisted only of hydrogen and helium - there were no other elements in the still young cosmos. When they died in gigantic explosions, they released what had accumulated in them: heavier elements, which were needed so that planets could form...
Kim Stanley Robinson has addressed the topic of climate change in both his science fiction novels and in talks given at such places as Google headquarters. In the Science in The Capital trilogy he presented various ideas for averting abr... PD Murphy - 《Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature ...
Yesterday, courtesy ofCloud Library, I finishedManifold: Time(1999), byStephen Baxter. It’s my first exposure to Baxter, who has written 60 science fiction novels — none of which I’ve read. Per hisWiki bibliography, he’s written only a half-dozen short stories, also none of which I...
【3】 It’s one thing to have a great idea or situation, but that doesn't mean you have a story. While science fiction novels are often thought experiments, they also can't just be thought experiments. That means you're going to have to come up with an appealing story that brings ...
H.G. Wells, best known for his science fiction novels such asThe War of the WorldsandThe Time Machine, believed science was the best hope for humanity’s future. George Orwell, an essayist, critic, and author of1984andAnimal Farm, took a less optimistic view. ...
3It’s one thing to have a great idea or situation, but that doesn't mean you have a story. While science fiction novels are often thought experiments, they also can't just be thought experiments. That means you're going to have to come up with an appealing story that brings these qu...
The brilliant and prolific science fiction author Isaac Asimov once said, “Over a space of 40 years, I published an average of 1,000 words a day. Over the space of the second 20 years, I published an average of 1,700 words a day.” There’s that 1,700-word number again. Think ...
While, scientists are busy nitpicking who has a larger h-index 6 , India has been pro-gressing leaving Indian science far be-hind. Indian scientists ... E Arunan - 《Currentence》 被引量: 0发表: 2011年 Nitpicking Recent (Great) Hard Science Fiction Novels: AURORA and THE MARTIAN Is ...