* John W. Campbell, an influential science fiction writer who " shaped the Golden Age of Science Fiction "

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.

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* Asimov's Science Fiction, an American science fiction magazine named after Isaac Asimov

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It was selected as one of the best science fiction short stories of the pre-Nebula Award period by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

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Wollheim was a member of the New York Science Fiction League, one of the clubs established by Hugo Gernsback to promote science fiction.

Wollheim edited the first science fiction anthology to be mass-marketed, The Pocket Book of Science Fiction ( 1943 ).

Shortly before World War II, he edited two of the earliest periodicals devoted entirely to science fiction, Stirring Science Stories and Cosmic Stories.

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Science fiction author H. G. Wells noted, " Pym tells what a very intelligent mind could imagine about the south polar region a century ago.

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Science fiction fanzines had their beginnings in Serious & Constructive ( later shortened to sercon ) correspondence.

The authors provide no qualifications, although they are described in Hubbard's book Science of Survival ( where some results of the same study were reprinted ) as psychotherapists.

A group of seventeen authors headed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology reported the discovery of at least one Ivory-billed Woodpecker, a male, in the Big Woods area of Arkansas in 2004 and 2005, publishing the report in the journal Science on 28 April 2005 ( Fitzpatrick et al., 2005 ).

However, the foundation of memetics in full modern incarnation originates in the publication in 1996 of two books by authors outside the academic mainstream: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme by former Microsoft executive turned motivational speaker and professional poker player, Richard Brodie, and Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society by Aaron Lynch, a mathematician and philosopher who worked for many years as an engineer at Fermilab.

However, a 1988 article by Brian Martin in Science and Public Policy states that although their paper concluded the effects would be less severe than originally thought, with the authors describing these effects as a " nuclear autumn ", other statements by Thompson and Schneider show that they " resisted the interpretation that this means a rejection of the basic points made about nuclear winter ".

The authors ' professional organization is called the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ( SFWA ).

Among the most respected awards for science fiction are the Hugo Award, presented by the World Science Fiction Society at Worldcon ; the Nebula Award, presented by SFWA and voted on by the community of authors ; and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for short fiction.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America ( SFWA ) was founded by Damon Knight in 1965 as a non-profit organization to serve the community of professional science fiction authors, 24 years after his essay " Unite or Fie!

Higher Superstition argued that in the 1990s, a group of academics whom the authors referred to collectively as " the Academic Left " was dominated by professors who concentrated on racism, sexism, and other perceived prejudices, and that science was eventually included among their targets — later provoking the " Science Wars ", which questioned the validity of scientific objectivity.

In a more recent case an internal investigation at the National Centre for Cell Science ( NCCS ), Pune determined that there was evidence of misconduct by Dr. Gopal Kundu, but an external committee was then organised which dismissed the allegation, and the NCCS issued a memorandum exonerating the authors of all charges of misconduct.

Language considerations figure prominently in general semantics, and three language and communications specialists who embraced general semantics, university professors and authors Hayakawa, Wendell Johnson and Neil Postman, played major roles in framing general semantics, especially for non-readers of Science and Sanity.

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:: Example: The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but " to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.

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The Hall of Fame stopped inducting fantasy authors in 2004 when it moved to Seattle and became part of the Science Fiction Museum.

In The Science of Stephen King, authors Gresh and Weinberg argue that this is " vaguely possible ", but characterize it as " generally the stuff of comic books ", such as Marvel Comics ' Human Torch and Pyro.

PCID's peer review process where ISCID Fellows are reviewers is in contrast to the process described as proper peer review by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where " reviewers are experts in the relevant scientific fields who have no conflict of interest with or especially close personal relationships to the authors or requestors " and refers to ISCID specifically.

Competition to publish in Science is very intense, as an article published in such a highly cited journal can lead to attention and career advancement for the authors.

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction contains entries under the categories of authors, themes, terminology, science fiction in various countries, films, filmmakers, television, magazines, fanzines, comics, illustrators, book publishers, original anthologies, awards, and miscellaneous.

* Astounding Science Fiction, later Analog Science Fiction, a magazine that prints short stories from science fiction authors.

In 2003 and 2005, respectively, he portrayed the authors George Orwell and John Wyndham in the BBC docudrama George Orwell-A Life In Pictures and the BBC Four documentary John Wyndham: the Invisible Man of Science Fiction.

* The four Science Fiction RoundTables ( the SFRT ), the official online home of the Horror Writers Association and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America before the Internet became popular ( SFWA members, who were all published authors, received free access to the SF RoundTables )

Cohen did not pay a reprint fee to the authors of these stories, and this brought him into conflict with the newly formed Science Fiction Writers of America.