As of 2008, Dragon * Con is a 4-day event comprising approximately 3500 hours of panels, seminars, demonstrations, and workshops, with over 30 specialized programming tracks that include writing, alternate history, art, anime, gaming, Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, comic books, costuming, space science, online media, independent film, podcasting, Asian cinema and culture, robotics, filk, scientific skepticism, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, X-Files, Joss Whedon creations, apocalyptic themes, Anne McCaffrey's Pern, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, J. R. R.

Both the Science Fiction / Space Opera – Space Wars ( Space Trucking ) and nearly all of the final Action Movie-Once There Was A Man Named Oscar levels are absent from this version.

* Golden Age of Detective Fiction, an era of detective fiction between World Wars I and II, epitomised by Agatha Christie.

* John W. Campbell, an influential science fiction writer who " shaped the Golden Age of Science Fiction "

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

In 1946, van Vogt and his first wife, Edna Mayne Hull, were co-Guests of Honor at the fourth World Science Fiction Convention.

Classic and Iconoclastic Alternate History Science Fiction.

Mirrors of the Past: Versions of History in Science Fiction and Fantasy.

" Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction 102, Spring 2008.

* Nedelkovh, Aleksandar B. British and American Science Fiction Novel 1950 – 1980 with the Theme of Alternative History ( an Axiological Approach ).

* Paradox: The Magazine of Historical and Speculative Fiction, frequently publishes alternate history stories.

The book was nominated for the 1992 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 1993 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the 1993 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

The magazine Book ranked Big Brother No. 59 on its 100 Best Characters in Fiction Since 1900 list.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel, written in the English language, by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.

The science-fiction editor Gardner Dozois is generally acknowledged as the person who popularized the use of the term " cyberpunk " as a kind of literature, although Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1980 for his short story " Cyberpunk ," which was published in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety.

" Weird Fiction Review No 1 ( Fall 2010 ), 154-189.

It was originally serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1976, and was the last Dune novel to be serialized before book publication.

In 2002, the Science Fiction Book Club also published the two novels in one volume.

In 2000, the British publisher Gollancz Science Fiction issued a two-volume, complete edition of Howard's Conan stories as part of its Fantasy Masterworks imprint, which including several stories that had never seen print in their original form.

Cover of Weird Tales ( May 1934 ) depicting Conan and Bêlit ( Fiction ) | Bêlit in Queen of the Black Coast, one of Robert E. Howard's original Conan stories.

*" The God in the Bowl " — Published in Space Science Fiction, Sep. 1952.

Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, Barbara Gowdy, Timothy Findley and Margaret Atwood have all produced works that are notable exemplars of this form.

Ribbentrop is also a key figure in the historical novel Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley ( Penguin Books 1982, ISBN 0-14-006268-8 ) and Harry Turtledove's alternate history series Worldwar where his Soviet counterpart Molotov frequently expresses contempt for his lack of intelligence.

** Timothy Findley, Canadian author ( d. 2002 )

* The night of Essex's execution is dramatised in the Timothy Findley play Elizabeth Rex.

Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC, O. Ont ( October 30, 1930-June 21, 2002 ) was a Canadian novelist and playwright.

Timothy Findley received a Governor General's Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award, an ACTRA Award, the Order of Ontario, the Ontario Trillium Award, and in 1985 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.

* CBC Timothy Findley obituary

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* Timothy Findley, The Piano Man's Daughter

* Timothy Findley, Pilgrim

** Timothy Findley, Canadian author, 71

* Timothy Findley – The Wars

* Timothy Findley, Elizabeth Rex

* Timothy Findley, Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Workbook

* Timothy Findley, Not Wanted on the Voyage

* Timothy Findley: The Last Crazy People

* Dinner Along the Amazon: Timothy Findley

* Timothy Findley: You Went Away