An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

The modern Negro has not made a decisive debut into Southern fiction.

For several generations much fiction has appeared dealing with the steprelationship.

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.

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.

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.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

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.

Alternate history or alternative history is a genre of fiction consisting of stories that are set in worlds in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

Science fiction set in what was the future but is now the past, like Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey or Nineteen Eighty-Four, are not alternate history because the author has not made the conscious choice to change the past.

The 1982 science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan used " Amazing Grace " amid a context of Christian symbolism, to memorialize the death of Mr. Spock but more practically, because the song has become " instantly recognizable to many in the audience as music that sounds appropriate for a funeral " according to a Star Trek scholar.

The Bronx has been featured significantly in fiction literature.

Mumy has garnered praise from the science fiction fandom for his portrayal of these two characters.

In a sense, the problem stems from centuries of introspection on the part of the Chinese people, which has blurred the distinction between fact and fiction in regards to this early history.

In science fiction, the impact of comets has been depicted as a threat overcome by technology and heroism ( Deep Impact, 1998 ), or as a trigger of global apocalypse ( Lucifer's Hammer, 1979 ) or of waves of zombies ( Night of the Comet, 1984 ).

Conan the Barbarian ( also known as Conan the Cimmerian ) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero that originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films ( including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer ), television programs ( cartoon and live-action ), video games, role-playing games and other media.

His fiction often has religious overtones or motifs, particularly evident in characters who have no control over their actions.

The suggestion that life could even occur within the plasma of a star has been picked up by other science fiction writers, as in David Brin's Uplift Saga or Frederik Pohl's novel The World at the End of Time.

It garnered major science fiction awards and has received universal praise for its characters, story, strong voice acting, animation and soundtrack.

Watson's use of fiction to counter the cults has been repeated by later novelists like Frank Peretti.

As early as Murder on the Links, where he still largely depends on clues, Poirot mocks a rival " bloodhound " detective who focuses on the traditional trail of clues that had been established in detective fiction by the example of Sherlock Holmes: footprints, fingerprints and cigar ash.

Several genres of fiction have been confused as alternate histories.

In the realm of science fiction, there have occasionally been forms of life proposed that, while often highly speculative and unsupported by rigorous theoretical examination, are nevertheless interesting and in some cases even plausible.

Since then, other variant designs involving building an artificial structure or series of structures to encompass a star have been proposed in exploratory engineering or described in science fiction under the name " Dyson sphere.

Dan Simmons has been nominated on numerous occasions in a range of categories for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.

By this time Vertov had been using his newsreel series as a pedestal to vilify dramatic fiction for several years ; he continued his criticisms even after the warm reception of Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin in 1925.

It has often been categorized as science fiction although it could more precisely be called " mathematical fiction ".

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

Feminism in science fiction shōjo manga has been a theme in the works of Moto Hagio among others, for whom the writings of Ursula K. Le Guin have been a major influence.

Dyson has been interested in space travel since he was a child, reading such science fiction classics as Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker.

Such fannish activity ( or " fanac ") including writing to letter columns in science fiction magazines, having been published in fanzines, or having participated in science fiction oriented clubs, or just generally doing fannish things.

" Her fiction has been nominated for nine Nebula and three Hugo Awards, and her genre-related scholarly work was recognized with a Pilgrim Award in 1988.

The Hobbit was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction of the year ( 1938 ).

Originally serialized in Worlds of If ( December 1965, January, February, March, April 1966 ), the book received the Hugo Award for best science fiction novel in 1967, and was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1966.

Foundation and Earth is a Locus Award nominated science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, the fifth novel of the Foundation series and chronologically the last in the series.

It was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, and the 1987 Prometheus Award, both science fiction awards.

In the 1950s, Wise proved adept in several genres, from the science fiction of The Day the Earth Stood Still to the melodramatic So Big, to the 1954 boardroom drama Executive Suite, to the epic Helen of Troy based on Homer, to Susan Hayward's Oscar winner in I Want to Live !, for which he was nominated for Best Director.

Blows Against the Empire was the first rock album nominated for the Hugo science fiction award.

Additionally, the film was nominated for the top 10 science fiction films in AFI's 10 Top 10 and the tenth anniversary edition of the 100 Movies list.

In 1971, the album was nominated for the prestigious science fiction prize, the Hugo Award, a rare honor for a musical recording.

The Dosadi Experiment was nominated for a Locus Award for best science fiction novel in 1978 but lost to Frederik Pohl's novel Gateway.

The White Plague was nominated for a Locus Award for best science fiction novel in 1983, but lost to Isaac Asimov ’ s novel Foundation's Edge.

James Cameron's 1986 sequel to Alien, Aliens, was very different from the original film, falling more into the action / science fiction genre, it was both a critical and commercial success and Sigourney Weaver was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the Academy Awards.

World and Town won the 2011 Massachusetts Book Prize in fiction and has been nominated for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Recent visitors to the festival have included the screenwriter and novelist Andrew Davies, famous for his work in the field of adaptation ; novelist Adele Parks, a highly acclaimed women's fiction author nominated for the Romantic Novelist of the Year award ; and Janet Street-Porter, a British media personality, journalist, television presenter and producer.

In 1996, his book The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and in 1999, Disch won the Nonfiction Hugo for The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, a meditation on the impact of science fiction on our culture, as well as the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse.

All four novels were also nominated for various science fiction awards.

According to their website, Spectra publishes " science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative novels from recognizable authors " Spectra authors have collectively won 31 such awards in the fields of science fiction and fantasy, and been nominated on 132 occasions.

The English poetry award continues to be presented yearly, and an English children's literature award is not presented ; however, English children's books are eligible to be nominated for the English fiction award.

Proyas ' first feature film was the independent science fiction thriller Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds, which was nominated for two Australian Film Institute awards in 1988, for costume design and production design and which won a Special Prize at the 1990 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival.

Goulart has been nominated twice for the Edgar Award, once for his 1970 science fiction novel After Things Fall Apart.

Cronenberg's version of The Fly was nominated under the science fiction category, although it did not make the top ten.

Science fiction flop Battlefield Earth swept the awards, claiming victory in all seven categories in which it was nominated ( from a total of eight nominations, with its double nomination in the Supporting Actor category ).

" The comic tied for outstanding science fiction comic in the Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards in 2004, and was again nominated in 2005 and 2007.

Vitals is a 2002 science fiction / techno-thriller novel written by Greg Bear, and nominated for a John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 2002.