Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

In the mid-1950s, editorial director Irwin Donenfeld and publisher Liebowitz directed editor Julius Schwartz ( whose roots lay in the science-fiction book market ) to produce a one-shot Flash story in the try-out title Showcase.

It also features prominently in the science-fiction novels of Michael Flynn, particularly in The Wreck of the River of Stars ( 2003 ); this book is the tale of the last flight of a magnetic sail ship when fusion rockets based on the Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor have become the preferred technology.

A poll of United States science-fiction writers, fans and critics for John Javna's 1987 book The Best of Science Fiction placed the series 25th in popularity, despite then only having recently begun to be broadcast in the US.

The book also addresses a wide range of prejudices and issues, but with a science-fiction twist ; monsters, robots and fantasy creatures often face the bigotry and problems faced by real-world human minorities.

Paul Williams picked a concert performance by Khan for inclusion in his 2000 book The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: a ' top-40 ' list, in which he devotes a chapter each to what he considers the top 40 artistic achievements of the 20th century in any field ( including art, movies, music, fiction, non-fiction, science-fiction ).

In the science-fiction book " The Technician " by Neal Asher, Penny Royal is the name of rogue black AI.

The Transparent Society ( 1998 ) is a non-fiction book by the science-fiction author David Brin in which he forecasts social transparency and some degree of erosion of privacy, as it is overtaken by low-cost surveillance, communication and database technology, and proposes new institutions and practices that he believes would provide benefits that would more than compensate for lost privacy.

There is also a science-fiction book by Joan D. Vinge called The Summer Queen that contains characters named Vanamoinen, Ilmarinen and Kullervo.

He formed the independent comic-book company " ffantasy ffactory " capitals with science-fiction writer-artist Connor Freff Cochran ( Freff ) and SF book editor Melissa Ann Singer.

* Expedition ( book ), a science-fiction novel by Wayne Douglas Barlowe

Newman had long been a science-fiction fan: " p to the age of 40, I don't think there was a science-fiction book I hadn't read.

Pravic is a fictional language used and referred to in the science-fiction book The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Iotic is one of the fictional languages used and referred to in the science-fiction book The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin.

Crayak is a fictional character and villain from the science-fiction book series Animorphs, written by K. A. Applegate.

* Mingulay is the name of an isolated human colony in Ken MacLeod's Cosmonaut Keep, book one in the " Engines Of Light " series of science-fiction novels.

According to Byrne, he intended the series to be science-fiction that had a " sort of smell " of being a super-hero book.

These fictional accounts of " current events " as the meteorological situation deteriorates provided background and inspiration for the 2004 science-fiction film The Day After Tomorrow and, indeed, some events from the book are portrayed in the film with little modification.

is a science-fiction novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley in the Darkover book series.

In 2004, Orman and Blum's Doctor Who novella Fallen Gods, published by Telos the previous year, won the Aurealis Award for best Australian science-fiction book.

The Andalite Chronicles is a science-fiction novel, and is the first companion book to the Animorphs series, written by K. A. Applegate.

It was started on Toronto's then-bohemian Queen Street West in May 1972 as a combined science-fiction and comic book store called Bakka, a name taken by founding owner Charles McKee ( born 1 December 1947 ) from a Fremen legend in Frank Herbert's novel Dune ; Bakka was " the weeper who mourns for all mankind.

One of the terms, " harsh realm ", was used as the title of a science-fiction comic book and a short-lived 1999 television series based on it, and was used by characters in The Dirty Pair comics written and drawn by Adam Warren as part of their futuristic slang ( where it had the same definition as the one Jasper created for the term ).

In the science-fiction novel Ender's Game, the " Buggers " are an alien species in which their queen can telepathically communicate with every member of her species, but no humans except Ender.

Shadow President is a geopolitical simulation video game released in 1993 for the PC by the now-defunct software company DC True containing elements of cyberpunk and dark science-fiction.

In addition, there are many areas of the human situation besides the impact of science and technology which are examined, for science-fiction dystopias often extrapolate political, social, economic tendencies only indirectly related to science and technology.

Charles N. Brown, the publisher of Locus, which primarily addresses the science-fiction publishing world, wrote in the July 2006 issue: " Two Charles McCarry hardcover reprints from Overlook ... aren't really SF or fantasy, but they are two of the best spy thrillers ever written and form a secret or alternate history of the 20th century.

( Gwen and her Thermian counterpart Laliari are the only female members of their respective crews ; as such, they spoof countless science-fiction and action-adventure stories in which teams have only one female member.

In the American Star Trek science-fiction franchise, the Maquis are a 24th Century paramilitary organization or terrorist group first introduced in the 1994 episode " The Maquis " of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, who subsequently also appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager.

French series are Highlander: The Series French science-fiction / fantasy television series ( both co-produced with Canada ) and a number of smaller fiction / fantasy television series, including Tang in 1971, about a super secret organization that attempts to control the world with a new super weapon, " Les atomistes " and bizarre

Characters range from " everyday Joes in space " to crack mercenary teams, and the game often draws from pulp science-fiction for its aliens ( the Aslan are similar to Kzin, the Hivers to Pierson's Puppeteers, and so on ).

* Among the Senators in the hearing committee are film producer / director Roger Corman, writer / producer William Bowers, producer Phil Feldman, and science-fiction writer Richard Matheson.

In the Star Trek science-fiction franchise, the Bajorans are a humanoid extraterrestrial species native to the planet Bajor.

Because they oversimplify world lines, which traverse four-dimesional spacetime, into one-dimensional timelines, almost all purported science-fiction stories about time travel are actually wishful fantasy stories.

In science-fiction, humanocentrism is the idea that humans, as both beings and a species, are the superior sentients.

The Mysterons are a fictional race of extraterrestrials, native to the planet Mars, which appear in the British science-fiction Supermarionation television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons ( 1967 – 68 ) and Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet ( 2005 ), symbolised by ubiquitous projected green rings and the deep bass voice of their human convert, Captain Black.

There are numerous cameos related to Star Wars and other science-fiction / cult-hit films including Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Seth Rogen ( playing three different roles ), Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Jaime King, Danny R. McBride, Ray Park, Craig Robinson, Ethan Suplee, Joe Lo Truglio, Lou Taylor Pucci, Will Forte, Danny Trejo and William Shatner.

In the Takeshi Kovacs series of science-fiction novels by Richard K. Morgan, some worlds, most significantly Earth, are ruled by an incredibly wealthy elite, granted effective immortality by technology which allows the digitisation of the human mind and its transfer between living bodies.

Many of his stories verge on the dream-like, while other are closer to science-fiction.

* The all-female governing body of England in the science-fiction work " Fremder " by UK author Russell Hoban are known as the " Sheela-na-Gig ".

Apart from the aliens ( which disappear in the origin issue and are never heard from again ) and Concrete's own high-tech artificial body ( which includes superhuman sight ), there are no supernatural or science-fiction elements to any stories.

Runabouts are a class of small, multi-purpose starships in the Star Trek science-fiction franchise, primarily the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

* In science-fiction stories Samolot von Ribbentrop ( Von Ribbentrop's plane ) and Atomowa Ruletka ( Nuclear Roulette ) by Polish writer Andrzej Pilipiuk, " red mercury reactors " are used as highly efficient power sources, although no further information about either the substance or said reactors is given.

Such features are not common at traditional science-fiction conventions, which are more oriented toward science fiction as a mode of literature, rather than toward visual media, and do not include any paid appearances by famous personalities, and maintain a less caste-like differentiation between professional and fan.

Despite the often exotic settings and science-fiction plot lines, the stories generally remain realistic on the personal level between the characters and friendship, love and spirituality are some of the key themes of the series.