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A contemporary of Brian Aldiss and James White, Kapp is best known for his stories about the Unorthodox Engineers.
According to Cordwainer Smith scholar Alan C. Elms, this speculation first reached print in Brian Aldiss's 1973 history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree ; Aldiss, in turn, claimed to have gotten the information from Leon Stover.
Brian Aldiss has called the story a " tawdry illiterate tale " and a " sorry concoction " while Lester del Rey called it " simply dreadful.
"Brian Aldiss, Trillion Year Spree
" Brian Aldiss noted that she could " do the hard stuff magnificently ," while Theodore Sturgeon observed that she " generally starts from a base of hard science, or rationalizes psi phenomena with beautifully finished logic.
* Brian Aldiss and Roger Penrose wrote White Mars ( 1999 ) as a response to the terraforming science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson and Paul J. MaCauley above.
) Brian Aldiss has argued that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ( 1818 ) was the first work of science fiction.
The New Wave writers believed that the tropes of the pulp and Golden Age periods had become worn out, and should be abandonded: J. G. Ballard stated in 1962 that " science fiction should turn its back on space, on interstellar travel, extra-terrestrial life forms, ( and ) galactic wars ", and Brian Aldiss said in Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction that " the props of SF are few: rocket ships, telepathy, robots, time travel ... like coins, they become debased by over-circulation.
Brian Aldiss, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Norman Spinrad, Roger Zelazny are writers whose work, though not considered New Wave at the time of publication, later became to be interpreted under the label.
* In A. I., a science fiction film that is based on a short story entitled " Super-Toys Last All Summer Long " by Brian Aldiss, the story begins sometime in the 22nd century when androids with very high levels of artificial intelligence ( called mechas, short for " mechanisms ," i. e. synthetic life ) have become commonplace.
Čapek's literary heirs include Ray Bradbury, Salman Rushdie, Brian Aldiss, and Dan Simmons.
* Aldiss, Brian W. " On the Origin of Species: Mary Shelley ".
In his book Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, Brian Aldiss coined the term cosy catastrophe to describe the subgenre of post-war apocalyptic fiction in which society is destroyed save for a handful of survivors, who are able to enjoy a relatively comfortable existence.
* Non-Stop ( originally titled Starship ) by Brian W. Aldiss
In the anglophone world, Brian Aldiss is attributed with the first complete novel dealing exclusively with the theme in the 1958 book Non-Stop.
* Helliconia — A planet orbiting a binary star in the trilogy of the same name by Brian Aldiss.
* 2004: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ; E. E. " Doc " Smith ; Harry Harrison ; Brian Aldiss
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It includes works by Moorcock himself, James Sallis, Brian Aldiss, Langdon Jones, M. John Harrison, Richard Glyn Jones, Alex Krislov and Maxim Jakubowski.
" It was established in 1973 by Harry Harrison and Brian W. Aldiss to honor the 1937 – 1971 science fiction editor John W. Campbell and to continue his life work of encouraging writers.
* A tape-recorded conversation on science fiction took place between Kingsley Amis, C. S. Lewis and Brian Aldiss in Lewis's rooms at Cambridge.
His first novel, The Genocides, appeared in 1965 ; Brian W. Aldiss singled it out for praise in a long review in SF Impulse.
* Brian Aldiss, in his novel Hothouse, describes a future Earth where a single huge banyan covers half of the globe, because individual trees discover the ability to join together, as well as drop adventitious roots.
: Collection: The Moment of Eclipse by Brian W. Aldiss

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He wrote to the newly successful washing-machine entrepreneur John Bloom inviting him to " do for us what Brian Epstein has done for the Beatles — and make another million.
Musicians who are primarily known as singers or performers on another instrument who also have recorded and performed harmonica solos include Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Donovan, Taj Mahal, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis and the News, John Mayall, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac, Roger Daltrey of The Who, Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin, Bono of U2, Rick Davies of Supertramp, and Richard " Magic Dick " Salwitz of The J. Geils Band.
After the completion of his courses, Alexander, on 14 October 1931, married Lady Margaret Bingham, the daughter of the Earl of Lucan and with whom Alexander had two sons — Shane, born 1935, and Brian, born 1939 — and a daughter, as well as adopting another daughter during his time as Canada's governor general.
Fox re-released it around college campuses on a double-bill with another rock music film parody, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise, but again it drew small audiences.
Maureen, born on July 4, 1882, recounts her girlhood in Kansas City, young adulthood, discovery that her family is a member of the long-lived Howard Families ( whose backstory is revealed in Methuselah's Children ), marriage to Brian Smith, another member of that family, and her life until her accidental " death " in 1982.
Clark encountered another future rival when he met Brian Mulroney at a national Young PCs meeting in 1958.
In another incident, Heath Ledger knocked out one of director Brian Helgeland's front teeth with a broomstick when the two were demonstrating a jousting move.
When commissioned three years later by friend Brian Graden to create another short as a video Christmas card that he could send to friends, Parker and Stone created another similarly-animated The Spirit of Christmas short, dubbed Jesus vs. Santa.
" included in the book " Patrick O ' Brian: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography ( 1994 )" that: " Some time after the blitz had died away I joined one of those intelligence organisations that flourished during the War, perpetually changing their initials and competing with one another.
" Jump Jive an ' Wail " was a Louis Prima composition that became another standard, a song which was revived by Brian Setzer.
Lucien Bouchard, a former member of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Cabinet and later founder of the Bloc Québécois, a federal-level sovereigntist party, succeeded Parizeau as PQ leader, but chose not to call another referendum due to the absence of " winning conditions ".
Dan Newburg and Kristina Harrison were appointed by the mayor after two members ( John Shepherd and Mary Peters ) were recalled, and Brian Broxterman was appointed to fill a seat vacated by the resignation of another City Council member, Dan Thompson.
Vincent Mazzeo was re-elected without opposition for another four-year term in the November 8, 2011 general election, while New Republicans Lisa Brown and Jim O ' Neil defeated Democratic challengers to win seats representing Wards 1 and 2 respectively in the November 8, 2011 general election, after defeating incumbent Regular Republicans Cindy Kern and Brian Smith in the June Primary.
In 1994 she created a CD-ROM titled Puppet Motel, which was followed by Bright Red, co-produced by Brian Eno, and another spoken-word album, The Ugly One with the Jewels.
King Brian, angry for being made a fool of, comes to fetch Darby, and another battle of wits ensues over a jug of poitín.
Brian Robertson, president of CRIA says, `` What this demonstrates is the vulnerability of the recording industry to new technology ... All we see is just another example of theft.
From then on Brian composed another twenty-two symphonies, many of the later ones short, single or two-movement works, and several other pieces.
In an April 2011 interview with The Washington Examiner, guitarist Brian Baker was asked if Bad Religion was going to make another album after The Dissent of Man.
" Despite his disappointment, Forbes remained in touch with the band ( and would soon reunite with another former Simple Minds bandmate, drummer Brian McGee, in Propaganda ).
He had planned another rewrite which was supposed to improve its usability but this work was taken over by Brian Kernighan.
A full year after interrogating Brian Kelley, and having failed to either bring a case against him or find another suspect, the FBI decided on a new tactic – buying the mole's identity.
After discrediting the main claimants other than Joe Ekins, Brian Reid then discusses another possibility, as there was another armoured regiment much closer to Wittmann ’ s tank.

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