* 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.

One of van Vogt's best-known novels of this period is Slan, which was originally serialised in Astounding Science Fiction ( September-December 1940 ).

In 2002, the Science Fiction Book Club also published the two novels in one volume.

Watson wrote a series of didactic novels like Escaped from the Snare: Christian Science, Bewitched by Spiritualism, and The Gilded Lie, as warnings of the dangers posed by cultic groups.

Neuromancer was commissioned by Terry Carr for the third series of Ace Science Fiction Specials, which was intended to exclusively feature debut novels.

Science fiction author and scientist / science writer Isaac Asimov popularized the term in his famous Foundation series of novels, though in his works the term is used fictionally for a mathematical discipline that can be used to predict the general course of future flow.

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Writing for Science Fiction Studies in March 1975, Ian Watson proposed the following chronology for the first six novels.

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" Blind Alley " was published before any of the novels ; written in 1944, it was accepted by John W. Campbell later that year and published in Astounding Science Fiction in March 1945.

The book itself went on to inspire the plot for a wide array of novels, from Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur ( 1880 ), a Science Fiction retelling in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, to Stephen Fry's contemporary The Stars ' Tennis Balls,

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The exploits of the head wizards of the Unseen University are one of the main plot threads in the longrunning fantasy series, and have played a central role in 13 novels to date, as well as the three supplementary Science of Discworld novels and the short story, A Collegiate Casting-Out of Devilish Devices.

It was one of the first apocalyptic novels of the nuclear age and remains popular years after it was first published, consistently ranking in Amazon. com's Top 20 Science Fiction Short Stories list.

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Science fiction novelist William Gibson used the term in his novels Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive, as did Bruce Sterling in Islands in the Net.

Works deriving themes and elements from Future Shock include the science fiction novels The Forever War ( 1974 ) by Joe Haldeman, The Shockwave Rider ( 1975 ) by John Brunner, the RPG Transhuman Space ( 2002 ) by Steve Jackson Games, and the indie RPG Shock: Social Science Fiction ( 2006 ) by designer Joshua A. C. Newman.

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Science fiction began with Jules Verne and then H. G. Wells, as a recognizable genre, although Mary Shelley is generally credited with having written the first science fiction novels ( Frankenstein and The Last Man ) forty-five years before Jules Verne and H. G.

Of the four novels, Hyperion received the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1990 ; The Fall of Hyperion won the Locus and British Science Fiction Association Awards in 1991 ; and The Rise of Endymion received the Locus Award in 1998.

The first trend, retro-futurism proper, is directly inspired by the imagined future which existed in the minds of writers, artists, and filmmakers in the pre-1960 period who attempted to predict the future, either in serious projections of existing technology ( e. g. in magazines like Science and Invention ) or in science fiction novels and stories.

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Often called the Grande Dame of Science Fiction and Fantasy by biographers such as J. M. Cornwell and organizations such as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Publishers Weekly, and Time, Andre Norton wrote novels for over 70 years.