* SF Reporter Interview

* Interview in SF Chronicle

One requirement for hard SF is procedural or intentional: a story should try to be accurate, logical, credible and rigorous in its use of current scientific and technical knowledge about which technology, phenomena, scenarios and situations that are practically and / or theoretically possible, and later discoveries do not necessarily invalidate the label.

In a review of it, John Clute wrote: “ I ’ m not about to suggest that if Heinlein had been able to publish works openly in the pages of Astounding in 1939, SF would have gotten the future right ; I would suggest, however, that if Heinlein, and his colleagues, had been able to publish adult SF in Astounding and its fellow journals, then SF might not have done such a grotesquely poor job of prefiguring something of the flavor of actually living here at the onset of 2004 .”

Most such sites are small, ephemeral, and / or very narrowly focused, though sites like SF Site offer a broad range of references and reviews about science fiction.

" Lethem suggests that the point in 1973 when Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow was nominated for the Nebula Award, and was passed over in favor of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, stands as " a hidden tombstone marking the death of the hope that SF was about to merge with the mainstream.

In early May 2003, after receiving numerous complaints about newswire stories that referred to the Israel Defence Forces as " Zionazi forces " or to Israelis as " Zionazis ", Google temporarily stopped including some IMCs in Google News searches, justifying the removal by describing the term as a " degrading, hateful slur " and refused to index the Bay Area IMC because it had appeared there ; SF Bay Area Indymedia agreed that it " could be considered hate speech ".

His novel Robot, which contains a fascinating theory about lesser and greater entities, was dubbed " the most valuable Polish SF publication of years 1945-1975 ".

The San Francisco newspaper SF Weekly reported on August 24, 2009 that Randi's annual salary is about $ 200, 000, a figure that has not changed much since the Foundation's inception.

* Richmond SF Blog-news, info, events about the Richmond District of San Francisco

The comic asides in the story include some of the time travel paradoxes which are a common running theme in Adams ' SF work, and plenty of material about lobsters.

The SF Weekly article " The Bizarre World of Butoh " was about former sushi restaurant Country Station, in which Koichi Tamano was “ chef ” and Hiroko Tamano " manager ".

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction observes that " At one time it was estimated that Roger Elwood alone constituted about one quarter of the total market for SF short stories.

For example, californium-252 ( half-life 2. 645 years, SF branch ratio about 3. 1 percent ) can be used for this purpose.

* SF Weekly cover story about the Manzanita ( April 2008 )

* Prisoners of Gravity page on a web site about Canadian SF

F & SF reviewer Charles de Lint received the novel favorably, describing it as " a fine, thoroughly engaging story about real people in an extraordinary situation.

* Many fan convention talks, in the 1980s especially about English-language SF

* Overview of his 1990s work in a USENET post about Czech SF

SF Weekly is politically independent, and encourages its writers to form and support educated opinions about the topics upon which they report.

The SF Weekly was the subject of ethical controversy in Jan., 2006, when a column about the AVN porn awards misidentified the event's location and honorees.

The mathematician Vernor Vinge popularized his ideas about exponentially accelerating technological change in the SF novel Marooned in Realtime ( 1986 ), set in a world of rapidly accelerating progress leading to the emergence of more and more sophisticated technologies separated by shorter and shorter time intervals, until a point beyond human comprehension is reached.

His autobiography, In Memory Yet Green, describes how science fiction gradually became more " respectable ", while at the same time, professors of literary studies wrote things about SF — even about Asimov's own stories — which he completely failed to grasp.

The television series Star Trek: The Next Generation ( 1987 ) began a torrent of new SF shows, including three further Star Trek spin-off shows and Babylon 5.

No other show attracted a large organized following until the 1990s, when Babylon 5 attracted both Star Trek fans and a large number of literary SF fans who previously had not been involved in media fandom.

" The ships on 2010 and Babylon 5 operate out of the necessity of traveling without standard SF artificial gravity.

where H is hits, BB is base on balls, CS is caught stealing, HBP is hit by pitch, GIDP is grounded into double play, TB is total bases, IBB is intentional base on balls, SH is sacrifice hit, SF is sacrifice fly, and AB is at bats.

Reviewing the first Steve Jackson Games editions of Ogre ( after the designer had moved away from Metagaming ), Tony Watson called Ogre " a legend in the ranks of SF gamedom, and deservedly so ... as well as being a lot of fun to play, it's an interesting extrapolation on high-tech armoured warfare ".

In 1922 Captain Geoffrey Crawshay was invited by the Engineer Commander of Devonport Services, SF Cooper, to bring a team of Welsh rugby union players to play Devonport Services RFC.

Traditionally, a PF / SF tweener refers to a basketball player whose physical attributes and skills render him / her unsuited to play either the power forward position or the small forward position exclusively.

They discovered two SF activities, one with a 1-2 ms half-life and one with a 5 s activity.

The team at Dubna studied this reaction in 1976 in order to assist in their assignments of the SF activities from their experiments with a < sup > 54 </ sup > Cr beam.

In November 2006 Libya supplied Chad with four Aermacchi SF. 260W light attack planes.

Media fanzines were originally merely a sub-genre of SF fanzines, written by science fiction fans already familiar with apazines.

Like SF fanzines, these media zines spanned the gamut of publishing quality from digest-sized mimeos to offset printed masterpieces with four-color covers.

Online versions of approximately 200 science fiction fanzines will be found at Bill Burns ' eFanzines web site, along with links to other SF fanzine sites.

As described in Isaac Asimov's autobiography In Memory Yet Green, the Futurians spun off from the Greater New York Science Fiction Club ( headed by Sam Moskowitz, later an influential SF editor and historian ) over ideological differences, with the Futurians wishing to take a more overt political stance.

Tiptree / Sheldon was an eclectic writer who worked in a variety of styles and subgenres, often combining the technological focus and hard-edged style of " hard " science fiction with the sociological and psychological concerns of " soft " SF, and some of the stylistic experimentation of the New Wave movement.

* The Flying Sorcerers ( 1971, with David Gerrold ), previously serialised as " The Misspelled Magishun ", includes portraits of other SF authors — e. g. the lead character name becomes translated into the local language as " As a color, shade of purple-gray " ( or Purple for short ), that is, " As-A-Mauve "

Red Dust, set on a far-future Mars colonized by the Chinese, is a planetary romance filled with all the latest SF ideas: nanotechnology, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, personality downloads, virtual reality.

* Semiotext ( e ) SF ( 1989 ) ( anthology, editor, with Rudy Rucker and Peter Lamborn Wilson )

The earliest organized fandom online was the SF Lovers community, originally a mailing list in the late 1970s with a text archive file that was updated regularly.

However, it is widely accepted among critics that the New Wave began in England with the SF magazine New Worlds and Michael Moorcock who was appointed editor in 1964 ( first issue number 142, May and June )

David Hartwell commenting on Algis J. Budrys writing in the review column of Galaxy magazine notes the " ringing scorn and righteous indignation " with which Budry's discussion vibrates in " one of the classic diatribes against Ballard and the new mode of SF then emergent ":

But caution is needed when assessing any literary movement, for example science fiction writer Bruce Sterling, reacting to his association with another SF movement in the 1980s remarked:

Other themes dealt with in the novel are concerns for the environment and " human stupidity and the delusional belief in human superiority ", both frequent topics in New Wave SF.

Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community or " fandom " of people actively interested in science fiction and fantasy and in contact with one another based upon that interest.

SF conventions can vary from minimalist " relaxacons " with a hundred or so attendees to heavily programmed events with four to six or more simultaneous tracks of programming, such as WisCon and Worldcons.

Commercial shows dealing with SF-related fields are sometimes billed as ' science fiction conventions ,' but are operated as for-profit ventures, with an orientation towards passive spectators, rather than actively involved fans, and a tendency to neglect or ignore written SF in favor of television, film, comics, video games, etc.

They are often associated with an SF convention or group of conventions, but maintain a separate existence as cultural institutions within specific geographic regions.