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 ) ; ;

In doing so science has unquestionably cleared up widespread misconceptions, removed extraneous and illusory sources of fear, and dispelled many undesirable popular superstitions.

* A. E. van Vogt, regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers during its " Golden Age "

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

Ann Druyan ( born June 13, 1949 ) is an American author and producer specializing in productions about cosmology and popular science.

In computer science, a popular notation for context-free grammars is Backus – Naur Form, or BNF.

Sagan is known for his popular science books and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote.

A number of respected monthly publications, including the popular science magazine " Наука и жизнь " (" Science and Life "), featured special columns, dedicated to optimization techniques for calculator programmers and updates on undocumented features for hackers, which grew into a whole esoteric science with many branches, known as " yeggogology " (" еггогология ").

The Nova became popular in science laboratories around the world, and eventually 50, 000 units were sold.

This Wöhler Myth, as historian of science Peter J. Ramberg called it, originated from a popular history of chemistry published in 1931, which, " ignoring all pretense of historical accuracy, turned Wöhler into a crusader who made attempt after attempt to synthesize a natural product that would refute vitalism and lift the veil of ignorance, until ' one afternoon the miracle happened '".

Feminist science fiction is evidenced in the globally popular mediums of comic books, manga, and graphic novels.

These educational science documentaries were popular favorites for showing in school science classrooms.

Certainly major contributors to computer science such as Edsger Dijkstra and Donald Knuth, as well as the inventors of popular software such as Linus Torvalds ( Linux ), and Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson ( the C programming language ) are likely to be included in any such list ; see also List of programmers.

In their book Trust Us, We're Experts ( 2001 ), they write that industries have launched multi-million-dollar campaigns to position certain theories as " junk science " in the popular mind, often failing to employ the scientific method themselves.

A popular science version of the book, entitled The Origins of Life: From the birth of life to the origin of language was published in 1999.

His Surgical Observations on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Diseases ( 1809 ) — known as " My Book ", from the great frequency with which he referred his patients to it, and to page 72 of it in particular, under that name — was one of the earliest popular works on medical science.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind was a successful work of popular science, selling out the first print run before a second could replace it.

Such fantasy settings for MUDs are common, while many others have science fiction settings or are based on popular books, movies, animations, periods of history, and so on.

They were especially popular with science fiction fans, who used them extensively in the production of fanzines in the middle 20th century, before photocopying became inexpensive.

Escher has had a continuous influence in science and art, as well as being referenced in popular culture.

He wrote a popular science book about these matters, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

ARPA / DARPA is well known as a high-tech government agency, and as such has many appearances in popular fiction.

To that end, his fiction often included elements of popular pseudosciences such as phrenology and physiognomy.

Poe was also known as a writer of fiction and became one of the first American authors of the 19th century to become more popular in Europe than in the United States.

In popular fiction, the two are often made as the same, such as in the film Excalibur, as well as the Disney film adaptation of The Sword in the Stone.

The most popular single earthquake in fiction is the hypothetical " Big One " expected of California's San Andreas Fault someday, as depicted in the novels Richter 10 ( 1996 ) and Goodbye California ( 1977 ) among other works.

In popular culture, formula fiction is literature in which the storylines and plots have been reused to the extent that the narratives are predictable.

The Wanderer, found in many Gothic tales, is the epitome of isolation as he wanders the earth in perpetual exile, usually a form of divine punishment .” Below are classified different stock characters of the Gothic Novel along with examples from popular fiction in the genre.

Over time, the costume selection extended to include popular characters from fiction, celebrities, and generic archetypes such as ninjas and princesses.

Such works have been the inspiration for a number of popular modern fiction novels.

High fantasy is the most popular and successful subgenre of the fantasy fiction.

The phrase and the legend are quoted very often in fiction and popular culture in the United States.

Because their text-only nature sidestepped the problem of writing for the widely divergent graphics architectures of the day, interactive fiction games were easily ported across all the popular platforms, even those such as CP / M not known for gaming or strong graphics capabilities.

Incest is a somewhat popular topic in English erotic fiction ; there are entire collections and websites devoted solely to this genre, with an entire genre of pornographic pulp fiction known as " incest novels ".

These negative qualities provided extensive material for fiction writers in the Victorian era, and John remains a recurring character within Western popular culture, primarily as a villain in films and stories depicting the Robin Hood legends.

" The Mokèlé-mbèmbé and its associated folklore also appear in several works of fiction and popular culture such as " Jurassic Park III ".

Found within Consolation are themes that have echoed throughout the Western canon: the female figure of wisdom that informs Dante, the ascent through the layered universe that is shared with Milton, the reconciliation of opposing forces that find their way into Chaucer in The Knight's Tale, and the Wheel of Fortune so popular throughout the Middle Ages.

A popular classic of mecha in games is the MechWarrior series of video games, which takes place in the Battletech universe.

In the Harry Potter universe, Quidditch holds a fervent following similar to the position that association football holds as a globally popular sport.

Episode 14 of the anime series Martian Successor Nadesico causes a rather confusing link between the world of the show itself and that of Gekigangar III, a popular anime that exists within its universe and that many characters are fans of ; the episode is essentially a clip show, but has several newly animated segments based on Gekigangar that involves the characters of that show watching Nadesico ( many of them being big fans of it themselves ).

Another notable example is the relationship between Genshiken, a manga series about popular culture, and Kujibiki Unbalance, a series in the Genshiken universe, which has spawned merchandise of its own, and is being remade into a series on its own.

Marvel Comics, as of 2000, launched their most popular parallel universe, the Ultimate Universe.

Dragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of popular fantasy novels.

Cowell stated at a popular BBS convention they named the company as an homage to Asimov and because in his science fiction works US Robotics eventually became " the biggest company in the universe ".

In 1987 he began writing novels set in the BattleTech universe for FASA Corporation, and became one of the most popular authors in that genre.

On the occasion of its dedication on May 10, 1930, Max Adler stated The popular conception of the universe is too meager ; the planets and the stars are too far removed from general knowledge.

The character was one of the most popular superheroes in the 90's and is still used in the DC comics universe.

Both popular and professional research articles in cosmology often use the term " universe " to mean " observable universe ".

The notion of planets around multi-star systems has also captured imaginations in popular culture particularly by fictional systems in film such as the twin sun scene on Tatooine in the Star Wars and Pandora, a moon in the Alpha Centauri system in the Fictional universe of Avatar.

The most popular and notable card in this set is Darth Sidious who was, at that time, not considered by Decipher to be the same person as Emperor Palpatine or Senator Palpatine in the " game universe.

Both astronomical scholars and popular writers considered the implications of the nested sphere model for the dimensions of the universe.

In spite of being designed as a sketch comedy television program, the series is set in a fictional universe in which it also is broadcast as a popular television comedy as evidenced through staged mishaps with members of the viewing audience and performers featured the program and comedic sub-plots involving Amanda's unhealthily obsessed, nerdy, feckless self-proclaimed " Number One Fan " Penelope Tate, who has prioritized devising schemes that will assist her in achieving her lifelong goal of meeting Amanda before all else and her multiple failed attempts at landing a meeting with the hostess of the series ( as a gag, Amanda Bynes actually portrays Penelope in reality and the pair are never shown onscreen together ).

In the popular Pokémon series of games, the Alpha Pokémon Arceus is said to have been born from a Cosmic Egg in a churning turmoil of chaos ; proceeding to shape the universe with its 1000 arms.

The set was popular because it used the artistic skills of hundreds of different artists who were allowed to draw any character in the Marvel Comics universe.

* John Dobson, How and Why to Make a User-Friendly Sidewalk Telescope edited by Norman Sperling ISBN 0-913399-64-7 The book treats the " why " as importantly as the " how ", sharing Dobson's philosophy on the importance of popular access to astronomy for proper appreciation of the universe.

Within the Macross universe it is a popular movie ( i. e. a movie within a television series ), a fact shown in Macross 7.

When Matsumoto's works again became popular in the 1990s and he began to pen the Harlock Saga manga, he changed the backdrop of Harlock and his universe.

In another part of popular culture, Twycross lent its name to one of the planets of the Inner Sphere in the BattleTech universe, which became well-known as one of the planets on which was fought the Refusal War between Clans Wolf and Jade Falcon, as portrayed in BattleTech sourcebooks and novels, as well as the video game MechWarrior 2.

The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries is a popular handbook in the Schlock Mercenary universe.