* Etaoin Shrdlu, or a portion of the phrase, is the name of a character in many works of fiction, including: Elmer Rice's 1923 play The Adding Machine, Charles G. Finney's The Circus of Dr. Lao, Crockett Johnson's comic strip Barnaby, Bill Holman's comic strip Smokey Stover, Walt Kelly's comic strip Pogo, and the novel Psychoshop by Roger Zelazny and Alfred Bester.

* A large portion of fans of John Carpenter's 1982 science fiction / horror film The Thing reacted negatively when a prequel was released in 2011.

Judging from the frequent mentions of him in the published science fiction portion of the Cycle, Sir John Hawkwood, a 14th century mercenary, would probably have been the subject of another.

( A number of the extras in the film were members of British science fiction fandom, and a portion was previewed at a science fiction convention in Peterborough.

Based on a portion of the book, it reduced the tale to an ' Ecology Strikes Back ' scenario, common in science fiction movies at the time.

" questions common to and characteristic of the science fiction genre: " What if a mysterious cosmic event occurred which juxtaposed the location of a whole populated region of West Virginia with a matching portion of early modern Germany?

In her Author's Notes for each book, she includes a portion of her historical research, from which her fiction or poetry emerged.

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

He was romanticised after his death and became the inspiration for a number of pirate-themed works of fiction across a range of genres.

Initially selling over 75, 000 copies, it became the first hardcover best-seller ever in the science fiction field.

Styx continued to have multiplatinum albums with their 1981 release Paradise Theater ( a concept album about a decaying theater in Chicago which became a metaphor for childhood and American culture ) and 1983's Kilroy Was Here ( a science fiction rock opera about a future where moralists imprison rockers ).

Simmons became famous in 1989 for Hyperion, winner of Hugo and Locus Awards for the best science fiction novel.

Poe was also known as a writer of fiction and became one of the first American authors of the 19th century to become more popular in Europe than in the United States.

The Futurians were a group of science fiction fans, many of whom became editors and writers as well.

In 19th century fiction, the chthonic gnome became a sort of antithesis to the more airy or luminous fairy.

As the subculture became well-established, the connection between goth and horror fiction became almost a cliché, with goths quite likely to appear as characters in horror novels and film.

So, the science fiction fans began to organize, and became aware of themselves as a movement, a social force ; this was probably decisive for the subsequent history of the genre.

After receiving his PhD, Mullis left science to write fiction, but quit and became a biochemist at a medical school in Kansas City.

They were especially popular with science fiction fans, who used them extensively in the production of fanzines in the middle 20th century, before photocopying became inexpensive.

Martians, other than human beings transplanted to Mars, became rare in fiction after Mariner, except in exercises of deliberate nostalgia – more frequently in some genres, such as comics and animation, than in written literature.

Zombies became a popular device in modern horror fiction, largely because of the success of George A. Romero's 1968 film Night of the Living Dead and they have appeared as plot devices in various books, films and in television shows.

In the 1990s, Canada became an important player in live action speculative fiction on television, with dozens of shows like Forever Knight, Robocop, and most notably The X-Files and Stargate SG-1.

Fans of the series became known to each other through the science fiction fandom.

It became one of the most critically praised science fiction films of the 1950s.

William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim became the most widely read and most successful British writers of spy fiction, especially of invasion literature.

As science fiction fans became professional writers, they started slipping the names of their friends into stories.

Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction.

After expanding on Neuromancer with two more novels to complete the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson became an important author of another science fiction sub-genre — steampunk — with the 1990 alternate history novel The Difference Engine, written with Bruce Sterling.

" Although he originally called it Etudes des Mœurs ( Study of Mores ), it eventually became known as La Comédie Humaine, and he included in it all the fiction that he had published in his lifetime under his own name.

He is known as a science fiction author, who wrote before science fiction became widely recognized as a separate genre.

This was not the only account of this love affair, which appears in reality to have been very much more strenuous than Woolf's enchanting account: both in fiction ( Challenge by Sackville-West and Broderie Anglaise a roman à clef in French by Trefusis ) and in non-fiction ( Portrait of a Marriage, which mingles Sackville-West's letters and extensive " clarifications " by her son Nigel Nicolson ) further parts of the story appeared in print.

The title of the essay comes from Woolf's conception that, ' a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction '.

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.

It is not through space nor time that the time machine most approved by science fiction must travel for a visit to the permanent prehistoric past, or the ever-existent past-fantasy future.

Moreover, the most artistically successful of the nonfiction films have invariably borrowed the narrative form from the fiction feature.

Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

The general semantics concept " non-Aristotelian logic ", influenced the science fiction of the most prolific, best selling, influential authors of the genre during its flowering and height.

* A. E. van Vogt, regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers during its " Golden Age "

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

On the other hand, when science fiction author Philip K. Dick was asked which science fiction writers had influenced his work the most, he replied:

The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

The subspace radio, best known today from Star Trek and named for the method used in the series for achieving faster-than-light travel, was the most commonly used name for such a faster-than-light communicator in the science fiction of the 1930s to the 1950s.

Sci-fi comedy films, like most hybrid genre of comedy use the elements of science fiction films to over the top extremes and exaggerated science fiction stereotypical characters.

Clarke's Third Law codifies perhaps the most significant of Clarke's unique contributions to speculative fiction.

Smith wrote most of his weird fiction and Cthulhu Mythos stories, partially inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

A notable characteristic of Linebarger's science fiction is that most of his stories are set in the same universe, with a unified chronology.

Linebarger's stories are unusual, sometimes being written in narrative styles closer to traditional Chinese stories than to most English-language fiction.

Perhaps the most extreme example in science fiction is James White's Sector General: a series of novels and short stories about multienvironment hospital for the strangest life-forms imaginable, some of them breathing methane, chlorine, water and sometimes also oxygen.

Among the most notable of these was the 1944 novella " No Woman Born ", which went on to be included in over ten different science fiction anthologies, including The Best of C. L. Moore.

In essence, he believes every word of these books of chivalry to be true though, for the most part, the content of these books is clearly fiction.

Some of the gadgets ( dōgu ) are based on real Japanese household devices with fanciful twists, but most are completely science fiction ( although some may be based on folklore or religious stories ).