* 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 science-fiction editor Gardner Dozois is generally acknowledged as the person who popularized the use of the term " cyberpunk " as a kind of literature, although Minnesota writer Bruce Bethke coined the term in 1980 for his short story " Cyberpunk ," which was published in the November 1983 issue of Amazing Science Fiction Stories.

Multiple Hugo-winning fan writer and professor of literature Susan Wood and others organized the " feminist panel " at the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention against considerable resistance.

* 1821 – Mary Baker Eddy, American writer, founder of Christian Science ( d. 1910 )

Science fiction writer Larry Niven has tongue-in-cheek theorized that, based on such abundance, Krypton was actually a Dyson sphere with a surface hundreds of times that of a mere planet.

Science writer Martin Gardner has accused the entertainment media of anti-science bias.

The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and ( since 2005 ) supported by the Philip K. Dick Trust, and named after science fiction and fantasy writer Philip K. Dick.

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.

Heinlein, a notable writer of science fiction short stories, was one of a group of writers who came to prominence under the editorship of John W. Campbell, Jr. in his Astounding Science Fiction magazine — though Heinlein denied that Campbell influenced his writing to any great degree.

Heinlein began his career as a writer of stories for Astounding Science Fiction, a highly respected science fiction magazine, which was edited by John Campbell.

The term retcon is used several times in the 2010 novel, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by American writer Charles Yu.

" In her much reprinted essay " Science Fiction and Mrs Brown ," the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin has approached an answer by first citing the essay written by the English author Virginia Woolf entitled " Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown " in which she states:

Science writer Timothy Ferris has posited that since galactic societies are most likely only transitory, an obvious solution is an interstellar communications network, or a type of library consisting mostly of automated systems.

As a point of reference for the science fiction genre writer, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America define short story length Nebula Awards for science fiction submission guidelines as having a word count of fewer than 7, 500.

SF writer Cory Doctorow calls science fiction " perhaps the most social of all literary genres ", and states, " Science fiction is driven by organized fandom, volunteers who put on hundreds of literary conventions in every corner of the globe, every weekend of the year.

Science fiction writer and editor Ben Bova was brought in as science advisor.

Peter Grier, staff writer of the Christian Science Monitor describes this occurrence as ," Call it the benign side of peer pressure.

* Avram Davidson – Science fiction writer and Talmudic scholar who studied Tenrikyo, and may have been converted, in his 50s

* Orson Scott Card, Science fiction writer

Science fiction writer Joanna Russ ( herself a lesbian ), author of How to Suppress Women's Writing, was one of the first major science fiction writers to take slash fiction and its cultural and literary implications seriously.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 writer / actress Mary Jo Pehl grew up in Circle Pines, and the city is mentioned in several episodes of the show.

A. Attanasio, Science fiction writer.

* Jean Marie Stine, a writer and publisher who was once editor of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine

* Science fiction writer Tobias Buckell lives in Bluffton.