The celebrated American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury described himself as " Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past — a combination of both ".

" Janus " put together one of the first broad based arguments for incorporating the theory of complex systems into the philosophy of science and epistemology.

After obtaining a degree in law at Janus Pannonius University, she completed majors in human ecology and political science.

* Janus, a French poetry magazine published in Paris by Elliott Stein from 1950 to 1961

* Janus, British spanking fetish magazine, in print since 1972

* The Janus Society ( 1962 – 1969 ) and DRUM magazine ( 1964 – 1969 ).

Equating the three self-fashioning identity labels " gay ," " homosexual ," and " homomasculine ," Fritscher also coined " homofemininity " for lesbians to whom he opened Drummer magazine in the late 1970s by publishing writing about the Society of Janus and writing from Samois, a group founded by gay activists Patrick Califia and Gayle Rubin.

In the late 1970s Marks was hired as a photographer for Janus, a fetish magazine specializing in spanking and caning imagery.

In 1982 Marks left the Janus stable to set up his own fetish magazine Kane which also featured caning and spanking photos.

Past recipients include Milos Stehlik ( founder of Facets Multi-Media ), HBO, the French film magazine Positif, Ted Turner, and Janus Films.

When The Red Balloon was re-released in the United States in late 2006 by Janus Films, Entertainment Weekly magazine film critic Owen Gleiberman, praised the film's direction and simple story line that reminded him of his youth, and wrote, " More than any other children's film, The Red Balloon turns me into a kid again whenever I see it ... see The Red Balloon is to laugh, and cry, at the impossible joy of being a child again.

Among the reasons given by those who oppose the use of Common Era notation is that it is selective as other aspects of the Western calendar have origins in various belief systems ( e. g., January is named for Janus ), Style guides for academic texts on religion generally prefer BCE / CE to BC / AD.

* Janus ( mythology ), the two-faced Roman god of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings, and endings

* Janus ( moon ), a moon of Saturn

* Janus ( simulation ), a military combat simulation first developed in the late 1970s by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Combat Simulation Laboratory

* Samantha Womack ( born 1972 ), English actress, formerly Samantha Janus

* Janus ( programming language ), more than one programming language

* Janus ( DRM ), a Microsoft Digital Rights Management platform

* Janus Recognition Toolkit ( JRTk ), a general purpose speech recognition toolkit developed and maintained by the Interactive Systems Laboratories at Carnegie Mellon University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

* Janus ( musical project ), German darkwave musical project established 1995

* Janus ( American band ), hard rock band, established mid 90s in Chicago, Illinois

* Janus ( TV series ), A television series created by the Australian Broadcasting Commission with two story lines: the criminal family being prosecuted and the police / judicial process

* Janus ( Warehouse 13 ), an ancient magical coin artifact of the Roman god Janus that can erase a past life memory of a person to start a new life.

* Janus ( Marvel Comics ), Marvel Comics character

* In In Nomine ( role-playing game ), Janus is the Archangel of the Wind

* Janus Lake ( Ontario ), Canada

* Janus Lake ( Washington ), Snohomish County, Washington

* Mount Janus ( Newfoundland ), Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

* Mount Janus ( Svalbard ), Norway

If a declaration of war ensues, the fetial calls upon Jupiter, Juno ( or Janus ), Quirinus, and the heavenly, earthly and chthonic gods as witnesses of any potential violation of the ius.

* Janus Kamban ( 1913 – 2009 ), sculptor.

In the light of this theology it is noteworthy that Vesta is always invoked as the last in all ritual formulas concerning one or more gods ( Vesta extrema ), while Janus, the god of beginnings and passages, associated with Heaven, is always invoked at the beginning.

** The above two albums have been reissued in many forms, including by Janus Records as the two-album set, Razzle-Dazzle ( Janus 7003 ), a numerous releases on the Pickwick and Hallmark labels.

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.