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* Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, formerly part of what is now the EMP Museum in Seattle, Washington
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Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.
One of van Vogt's best-known novels of this period is Slan, which was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction ( September-December 1940 ).
For example Darrell Schweitzer writing to the New York Review of Science Fiction in 1999 quoted a passage from the original van Vogt novelette “ The Mixed Men ”, which he was then reading, and remarked:
In 1946, van Vogt and his first wife, Edna Mayne Hull, were co-Guests of Honor at the fourth World Science Fiction Convention.
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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 ).
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.
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* Asimov's Science Fiction, an American science fiction magazine named after Isaac Asimov
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.
Science and Museum
Trial model of a part of the Analytical Engine, built by Babbage, as displayed at the Science Museum ( London )
Henry Babbage's Analytical Engine Mill, built in 1910, in the Science Museum ( London )
) Henry Babbage's " Analytical Engine Mill " is on display at the Science Museum in London.
In 1991, the London Science Museum built a complete and working specimen of Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, a design that incorporated refinements Babbage discovered during the development of the Analytical Engine.
This replica was discovered in a cave by a Swedish German missionary named Harald von Sicard in the 1940s and eventually found its way to the Museum of Human Science in Harare.
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Parts of his uncompleted mechanisms are on display in the London Science Museum.
Nine years later, the Science Museum completed the printer Babbage had designed for the difference engine.
The South Side is home to the University of Chicago ( UC ), ranked one of the world's top ten universities ; and the Museum of Science and Industry.
Other museums and galleries in Chicago include the Chicago History Museum, the DuSable Museum of African American History, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the Polish Museum of America, the Museum of Broadcast Communications and the Museum of Science and Industry.
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The London Science Museum ( London ) | Science Museum's difference engine, built from Babbage's design.
During the 1980s, Allan Bromley, an associate professor at the University of Sydney, Australia, studied Babbage's original drawings for the Difference and Analytical Engines at the Science Museum library in London.
This work lead the Science Museum to construct a working difference engine No. 2 from 1989 to 1991, under Doron Swade, the then Curator of Computing.
In addition to funding the construction of the output mechanism for the Science Museum's Difference Engine No. 2, Nathan Myhrvold commissioned the construction of a second complete Difference Engine No. 2, which is currently on exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.
* Dolly the Sheep, 1996-2003 from the Science Museum, London
For more information on local history see the Fort Collins Museum and Discovery Science Center's local historical archives.
Science and Hall
Category: Scottish Science Hall of Fame
Category: Scottish Science Hall of Fame
It was selected for The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964.
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A view of the Sherman Fairchild Physical Science Center and Wheeler Hall from the tower of Baker Memorial Library
Andrew R. Cobb designed the Science Building, 1913 – 15 ; MacDonald Memorial Library, 1914 – 15 ; Shirreff Hall Women's Residence, 1920 ; Arts Building, 1921 – 22 ; Medical Science Laboratory, 1921 – 22 ; Provincial Archives Building, 1929 ; Gymnasium Building, 1931.
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Category: Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductees
At the Chicago 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Muybridge gave a series of lectures on the Science of Animal Locomotion in the Zoopraxographical Hall, built specially for that purpose in the " Midway Plaisance " arm of the exposition.
It was exhibited at the New York Hall of Science after the Fair ended.
Ackerman was a board member of the Seattle Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, where many items of his collection are now displayed.
On June 17, 2006, the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted George Lucas and three others.
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The second phase, to be completed in 2010, is underway for a building named Founders Hall is to house the Schools of Public Policy, Education and Human Development, Information Technology, Engineering, Management, the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Computational Science, and the College of Visual & Performing Arts and academic and student supports services.
* Linda Hall Library History of Science Collection
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" He was one of 1996's inaugural inductees into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
Category: Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductees
Category: Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductees
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Category: Scottish Science Hall of Fame
Some of his works are now displayed there in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering and in Meany Hall for the Performing Arts.
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