Writers of this class of science fiction have clearly in mind the assumptions that man can master the principles of this cause-and-effect universe and that such mastery will necessarily better the human lot.

On the other hand, the bright vision of the future has been directly stated in science fiction concerned with projecting ideal societies -- science fiction, of course, is related, if sometimes distantly, to that utopian literature optimistic about science, literature whose period of greatest vigor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and H. G. Wells's A Modern Utopia.

In Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End ( 1953 ), though written after the present flood of dystopias began, we can see the bright vision of science fiction clearly defined.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Not all recent science fiction, however, is dystopian, for the optimistic strain is still very much alive in Mission Of Gravity and Childhood's End, as we have seen, as well as in many other recent popular novels and stories like Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud ( 1957 ) ; ;

and among works of dystopian science fiction, not all provide intelligent criticism and very few have much merit as literature -- but then real quality has always been scarce in science fiction.

`` The human ego being what it is '', I put in, `` science fiction has always assumed that the creatures on the planets of a thousand larger solar systems than ours must look like gigantic tube-nosed fruit bats.

It is not through space nor time that the time machine most approved by science fiction must travel for a visit to the permanent prehistoric past, or the ever-existent past-fantasy future.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

Until recently, androids have largely remained within the domain of science fiction, frequently seen in film and television.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

For example, Heinlein was the " dean of science fiction writers " because he was " the scientist " of science fiction.

The scenario drew on themes common to science fiction.

The background of Mars shared by most of the stories, as a desert planet crisscrossed by giant canals built by an ancient civilization to bring water from the polar ice caps, is a common scenario in science fiction of the early-20th century.

The background of Mars presented in the novel, as a desert planet crisscrossed by giant canals built by an ancient civilization to bring water from the polar ice caps, is a common scenario in science fiction novels of the early 20th century, and was actually put forward as a plausible theory by some astronomers around the turn of the century, notably Percival Lowell mentioned in the novel.

Doomsday devices have been present in literature and art especially in the 20th century, when advances in science and technology made world destruction ( or at least the eradication of all human life ) a credible scenario.

Turtledove approaches the novels ' science fiction scenario with less of a focus on the technological and fantasy elements typically associated with the genre and shows greater concern for the role of more mundane affairs such as the political repercussions of an alliance between the Allied and Axis powers, the impact the presence of alien creatures has on human society, and the ways in which warfare is paradoxically a hindrance to civilization and simultaneously a catalyst for the progress of civilization.

There are examples in science fiction of " thermic lance " or " thermal lance " being used to mean a type of fictional energy weapon or melee weapon ( for example at this link, with image, in the Fallout: New Vegas videogame scenario ).

In some science fiction smaller relativistic projectiles can sometimes be found depending on the technologies imagined in any particular scenario.

The game's science fiction story was also unique, reversing the common alien invasion scenario by instead presenting Earthlings as the invading antagonists rather than the defending protagonists.

Gary Gygax thought it would be a good idea to introduce science fiction / science fantasy concepts to D & D players through the use of a tournament scenario at the 1976 Origins II gaming convention in Baltimore, Maryland.

" Gygax updated the scenario to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons ( AD & D ) rules, hoping it could serve as a primer on how to integrate science into one's fantasy role playing game.

In computer science, priority inversion is a problematic scenario in scheduling when a higher priority task is indirectly preempted by a lower priority task effectively " inverting " the relative priorities of the two tasks.

* a software testing scenario, see Clumping ( computer science ) and LURCH ;

Although it is debatable as Mobile Suit Gundam is often considered the first anime to show a truly grittier side of science fiction, Ideon undeniably has a very distinct presentation and plot style which had never been seen before, specifically with the series ' emphasis on making the audience feel for the characters and their struggle against a hopeless scenario as opposed to just watching the Ideon do battle or feeling for the overall theme.

Based on a portion of the book, it reduced the tale to an ' Ecology Strikes Back ' scenario, common in science fiction movies at the time.

The scenario allows serious discussion of solid, current science, without distorting it into ‘ yes, pigs really could fly given GM wings ’ or whatever.

This was followed by the less successful Hanover Street ( 1979 ) which starred Harrison Ford, and the science fiction cult classic Outland ( 1981 ), which starred Sean Connery in a ' High Noon ' scenario set on Io, one of Jupiter's moons.

An independent agency ( the same as above ) has held a survey among leaders of industry and science: they favor a standalone scenario for Fortis Bank.

* Invasion by militarily superior extraterrestrials ( see alien invasion ) — often considered to be a scenario purely from the realms of science fiction, professional SETI researchers have given serious consideration to this possibility, but conclude that it is unlikely.

However, with robust error correction, and the possibility of external intervention, the common science fiction scenario of robotic life run amok will remain extremely unlikely for the foreseeable future.

KSR outlines quite a plausible scenario, and the science behind the troubles seem accurate.

Invaders From Mars ( 1953 ) is a science fiction film directed by William Cameron Menzies, taken from a scenario by Richard Blake, and based on a story treatment by John Tucker Battle who was inspired by a dream recounted by his wife.

The game's science fiction story was also unique, reversing the common alien invasion scenario by instead presenting Earthlings as the invading antagonists rather than the defending protagonists.

W. H. C. Lawrence was a Canadian science fiction writer remembered as the author af the late 19th century novel, Storm of ' 92, published in 1889, which posited the scenario of Canada winning a war against the United States.

Some hard science fiction stories use small ( possibly nano-sized ) paired wormholes dedicated to communication by means of a laser which traverses the wormhole.

He was inspired by the mention of the concept in the 1937 science fiction novel Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon, and possibly by the works of J. D. Bernal and Raymond Z. Gallun who seem to have explored similar concepts in their work.

Ackerman was a Los Angeles, California-based magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom and possibly the world's most avid collector of genre books and movie memorabilia.

Garbage in, garbage out ( abbreviated to GIGO, possibly intended to parallel the phrase first-in, first-out ) is a phrase in the field of computer science or information and communication technology.

To Pius XII, science and religion were heavenly sisters, different manifestations of divine exactness, who could not possibly contradict each other over the long term Regarding their relation, his advisor Professor Robert Leiber wrote: " Pius XII was very careful not to close any doors prematurely.

" As a discipline " political science, possibly like the social sciences as a whole, " lives on the fault line between the ' two cultures ' in the academy, the sciences and the humanities.

In computer science, source code is any collection of computer instructions ( possibly with comments ) written using some human-readable computer language, usually as text.

* Genus Homo ( 1950 ) ( with P. Schuyler Miller )-first science fiction novel de Camp had a hand in, possibly the earliest work of fiction dealing with the " Planet of the Apes " theme

The aerobot will have to navigate in three dimensions, acquire and store science data, perform flight control by varying its altitude, and possibly make landings at specific sites to provide close-up investigation.

Another criticism that has been voiced is that some science fiction-type thought experiments are too wild to yield clear intuitions, or that any resulting intuitions could not possibly pertain to the real world.

In later years he has also been quite outspoken of the pursuit of science as a whole: Naur can possibly be identified with the empiricist school, that tells that one shall not seek deeper connections between things that manifest themselves in the world, but keep to the observable facts.

Universities and high schools can enroll in the MSDN Academic Alliance program, which provides access to some Microsoft developer software for their computer science and engineering students ( and possibly other students or faculty as well ).

Numerous science fiction stories and novels center around an impact event ; possibly the best-selling was the novel Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.

Many important scholars of natural science, astronomy, and medicine originate from Harran ; they were non-Arab and non-Islamic ethnic Assyrians, including possibly the alchemist Jābir ibn Hayyān.

Against the backdrop of this development is another debate, one whose principal instigator is Arkady Bogdanov of the Russian contingent ( possibly named in homage to the Russian polymath and science fiction writer Alexander Bogdanov ).

* text file, document (( computer science ) a computer file that contains text ( and possibly formatting instructions ) using seven-bit ASCII characters ).

However, the expedition proved to be highly successful in terms of robotic and computer science, and was possibly the first ever expedition by a robotic platform to Antarctica.

Veblen saw the need for taking account of cultural variation in his approach ; no universal " human nature " could possibly be invoked to explain the variety of norms and behaviors that the new science of anthropology showed to be the rule, rather than the exception.

Phrenologists had made the claim in the early 19th century that different brain regions carried out different functions and that language was mostly controlled by the frontal regions of the brain, but Broca's research was possibly the first to offer empirical evidence for such a relationship, and has been described as " epoch-making " and " pivotal " to the fields of neurolinguistics and cognitive science.

As such, main-sequence systems are of particular interest to science due to the prospect of finding true analogs to the Solar System, along with true Earth analogs and therefore possibly Earth-like complex or even intelligent life.

The meaning is that science fiction describes unlikely things that could possibly take place in the real world under certain conditions, while science fantasy gives a scientific veneer of realism to things that simply could not happen in the real world under any circumstances.

Recent science has dated the possible impact crater to be greater than 70 million years old and possibly from the Late Devonian Period.

Robert A. Heinlein, who gave the authors extensive advice on the novel, blurbed the story as " possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read ".