Tiptree / Sheldon was an eclectic writer who worked in a variety of styles and subgenres, often combining the technological focus and hard-edged style of " hard " science fiction with the sociological and psychological concerns of " soft " SF, and some of the stylistic experimentation of the New Wave movement.

But caution is needed when assessing any literary movement, for example science fiction writer Bruce Sterling, reacting to his association with another SF movement in the 1980s remarked:

Veteran science fiction writer Jack Williamson ( 1908 – 2006 ) when asked in 1991: " Did the Wave's emphasis on experimentalizm and its conscious efforts to make SF more ' literary ' have any kind of permanent effects on the field?

In 1972, Fafhrd and the Mouser began their comics career, appearing in Wonder Woman # 202 alongside the title character and Catwoman in a story scripted by award-winning SF writer Samuel R. Delany.

This is likely to also be a reference to the early SF writer H. G. Wells ' story, " The Country of the Blind " in which a sighted man finds himself in a literal country of the blind, plots to use his advantage to rule them, but fails because his ability is not appreciated by the population.

He was voted the Best New European SF writer of the Year in the early nineties and has subsequently won the British Science Fiction Award twice ( for the short stories Hunting the Slarque in 1999 and Children of Winter in 2001 ).

After teaming with SF writer Fletcher Pratt in " City of the Living Dead " in the May, 1930 issue of Science Wonder Stories, he wrote " The Voyage of the ' Asteroid '", which appeared in the Summer 1932 issue of Wonder Stories Quarterly, and The Man Who Awoke, a series of stories that was later published as a novel.

Van Vogt was not the only Golden Age writer of SF influenced by Alfred Korzybski.

He was the older brother of SF writer Joe Haldeman.

Of the Villiers series, noted SF writer Samuel R. Delany writes in the foreword of Star Well:

SF writer C. J. Cherryh writes on her website, " I was a witness of pre-peacebonding times, was narrowly missed, and assure you this is a good idea.

Some time in the 1970s author Thomas N. Scortia obtained a copy, which he mailed to Californian SF writer Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.

* Void Trilogy, science fiction series by British SF writer Peter F. Hamilton

* Greg Egan, hard SF writer

Heinlein's use of sexuality is discussed in an essay entitled " The Embarrassments of Science Fiction " by SF writer Thomas Disch.

The Langston Field is a fictional device featured in the CoDominium series of science-fiction novels, initiated by SF writer Jerry Pournelle.

RRs, as they are called, are groups of members with interest in a specific topic ( a particular writer, or a subject such as comics, cats in SF, dragons, horror, Star Trek, time travel, etc .).

She is a supporter of feminist science fiction, saying " women need to realize that SF is the only genre of literature in which it's possible for a writer to explore the question of what this world would be like if you could get rid of, where is filled in with any of the multitude of real world facts that constrain and oppress women.

Their oeuvre is blackly humorous with such topics as Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, an unrequited crush on Shirley MacLaine, and an ode to SF writer Harlan Ellison.

He became a fan of SF from childhood TV, began writing when he was 9, sold his first story to a local Belfast magazine when he was 22, and in 1987 became a full-time writer.

In the late 1930s, British writer John Russell Fearn gave credit to Keeler for inspiring his experiments with webwork plots in his pulp SF stories.

Unfortunately the only human who will believe him is an SF writer, who over coffee in a diner gently informs the visitor that-due to his profession-no other human would find him credible on the subject.

William Sanders ( born April 28, 1942 ) is an American speculative fiction writer, primarily of short fiction, and was the senior editor of the now defunct online science fiction magazine Helix SF.

In 1962, Amazing Stories published " Through Time and Space with Benedict Breadfruit " by Grandall Barretton ( Randall Garrett ), which all ended in a pun on the name of a famous SF writer.

His general critical work SF in Dimension ( 1976 ) was also co-written with Cory Panshin, as was the lengthy theoretical-critical book, The World Beyond The Hill ( 1989 ).

* Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine, a short-lived American science fiction magazine named after Isaac Asimov

Gibson defined cyberpunk's antipathy towards utopian SF in his 1981 short story " The Gernsback Continuum ," which pokes fun at and, to a certain extent, condemns utopian science fiction.

Media fanzines were originally merely a sub-genre of SF fanzines, written by science fiction fans already familiar with apazines.

Online versions of approximately 200 science fiction fanzines will be found at Bill Burns ' eFanzines web site, along with links to other SF fanzine sites.

The heart of the " hard SF " designation is the relationship of the science content and attitude to the rest of the narrative, and ( for some readers, at least ) the " hardness " or rigor of the science itself.

There is a degree of flexibility in how far from " real science " a story can stray before it leaves the realm of hard SF.

* Kathryn Cramer's chapter on hard science fiction in The Cambridge Companion to SF, ed.

Campbell's tenure at Astounding is considered to be the beginning of the Golden Age of science fiction, characterized by hard SF stories celebrating scientific achievement and progress.

Hard science fiction, or " hard SF ", is characterized by rigorous attention to accurate detail in quantitative sciences, especially physics, astrophysics, and chemistry, or on accurately depicting worlds that more advanced technology may make possible.

SF conventions routinely have programming on fantasy topics, and fantasy authors such as J. K. Rowling have won the highest honor within the science fiction field, the Hugo Award.

SF societies, referred to as " clubs " except in formal contexts, form a year-round base of activities for science fiction fans.

Most such sites are small, ephemeral, and / or very narrowly focused, though sites like SF Site offer a broad range of references and reviews about science fiction.

Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing wrote a series of SF novels, Canopus in Argos, and nearly all of Kurt Vonnegut's works contain science fiction premises or themes.

Merril later popularized this fiction in the United States through her edited anthology England Swings SF: Stories of Speculative Fiction ( Doubleday 1968 ), although an earlier anthology ( Harlan Ellison's Dangerous Visions 1967 ) has also come to be referred to as a key work of New Wave 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.

Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community or " fandom " of people actively interested in science fiction and fantasy and in contact with one another based upon that interest.

Commercial shows dealing with SF-related fields are sometimes billed as ' science fiction conventions ,' but are operated as for-profit ventures, with an orientation towards passive spectators, rather than actively involved fans, and a tendency to neglect or ignore written SF in favor of television, film, comics, video games, etc.

Participation in science fiction fandom often overlaps with other similar interests, such as fantasy role-playing games, comic books and anime, and in the broadest sense fans of these activities are felt to be part of the greater community of SF fandom.

O ' Donnell ( aka Barry Malzberg ), 1971, takes place at a New York City science fiction convention and features broad parodies of many SF fans and authors.

* SF Chronophysics, a discussion of Time Travel as it relates to science fiction