In the mid-1950s, editorial director Irwin Donenfeld and publisher Liebowitz directed editor Julius Schwartz ( whose roots lay in the science-fiction book market ) to produce a one-shot Flash story in the try-out title Showcase.

* Algis Budrys ( 1931 – 2008 ), science-fiction author and editor ( former resident )

He formed the independent comic-book company " ffantasy ffactory " capitals with science-fiction writer-artist Connor Freff Cochran ( Freff ) and SF book editor Melissa Ann Singer.

He also worked for two Polish science-fiction magazines: Fantastyka ( 1986 – 1990 ) and as a chief editor for Fenix ( 1990 – 1994 ).

The editor also added that Strange Journey followed a similar system, calling it a " science-fiction makeover " of the series.

In Fredric Brown's science-fiction novel What Mad Universe a magazine editor from our own world is accidentally sent to a parallel Earth significantly different from ours ; in this parallel world, the editor reads a biography written of a dashing space hero, a figure central to the novel's narrative, which is supposedly written by Paul Gallico.

In 1968 he was employed as the assistant script editor on the BBC's popular science-fiction series Doctor Who.

He is the editor of the prestigious science fiction series Ailleurs et Demain published by Robert Laffont and of the Le Livre de poche science-fiction imprint.

" Gaiman showed the story to his friend, science-fiction writer and editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden.

From 1966 until the following year, he was the script editor on the popular BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, for which he co-created the popular cybernetic monsters known as the Cybermen, who made several appearances in the series over the following twenty-two years.

Created by Doctor Who producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks as a realistic alternative strand of TV science-fiction, it was not a commercial or critical success ( Dicks himself has stated in a foreword to a collection of Tom Baker-era Doctor Who scripts that they " overdid the grimness and forgot about the sense of wonder that science fiction is all about ").

The first editor was Giorgio Monicelli ( brother of movie director Mario Monicelli ): Monicelli is credited with the invention of the word fantascienza, meaning science-fiction in Italian.

Thus science is the savior of mankind, and in this respect Childhood's End only blueprints in greater detail the vision of the future which, though not always so directly stated, has nevertheless been present in the minds of most science-fiction writers.

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.

What makes the current phenomenon unique is that so many science-fiction writers have reversed a trend and turned to writing works critical of the impact of science and technology on human life.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

Charles William " Bill " Mumy, Jr. (; born February 1, 1954 ) is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice-over artist and a figure in the science-fiction community.

Benford's law of controversy, as expressed by science-fiction author Gregory Benford in 1980, states: Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real ( true ) information available.

This is also a popular theme in science-fiction novels and movies ; some raise the same question ( Dune's Butlerian Jihad, for example ), while others explore what the relationship between human beings and machines with artificial intelligence would be, and even whether AI is desirable.

Galaxy Quest is a 1999 science-fiction comedy parody about a troupe of human actors who defend a group of aliens against an alien warlord.

Neuromancer is a 1984 novel by William Gibson, a seminal work in the cyberpunk genre and the first winner of the science-fiction " triple crown " — the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award.

Galaxy Quest ( 1999 ), a comedy about actors from a defunct science-fiction television series serving on a real starship, included an actor who is terrified that he's going to die on an away mission because his only appearance in the show was as an unnamed character who was killed early in the episode.

Sometimes it appears as a genuine tool, but often it is parodied – for example, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game included tools such as the ultra-plasmic awl, and the BBC Radio 4 science-fiction comedy Nebulous offered the sonic crowbar.

The film has two distinct parts: the first is a mystery ; the second a science-fiction adventure.

The term has also been used in The Judas Mandala, a 1982 science-fiction novel by Damien Broderick, where the context of use is somewhat different from that defined above.

Initially covering a wide variety of fantasy and science-fiction role-playing and board games, particularly the role playing games ( Advanced ) Dungeons & Dragons, RuneQuest and Traveller ( which were all published by other games companies ), the magazine underwent a major change in style and content in the late 1980s and is now dedicated exclusively to the miniature wargames produced by Games Workshop, mainly the core systems of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40, 000 and The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.

The contest has no entry fee and is the highest-paying contest for amateur science-fiction and fantasy writers.

WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War science-fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham.

has become generally regarded as one of the very best science-fiction films of the 1950s.

Despite the often exotic settings and science-fiction plot lines, the stories generally remain realistic on the personal level between the characters and friendship, love and spirituality are some of the key themes of the series.

He contributed generally single episodes to a wide variety of British television shows, most typically of the crime drama genre, although he did occasionally generate science-fiction scripts.

Its contents and subject matter varied, according to the tastes of the editors and the contents of the other magazines being published by the BFS at the same time, but generally included some combination of fantasy, science-fiction and horror-related fiction, articles, poetry and artwork.

Cohen also acknowledged he was not the first to turn Cold War fears into science-fiction drama.

The Press has often been acknowledged for spearheading a genre described as " new wave fabulism " and praised for its children and young-adult publications, though it is also recognized as a leading small-publisher of literary science-fiction and fantasy.

" He praised Dick's accomplishment, saying " the whole creation resonates to the touch of the only present science-fiction writer who could possibly have done it " and characterizes the result as " a witty, sometimes lighthearted, and always fascinating piece of fiction.

In the American Star Trek science-fiction franchise, the Maquis are a 24th Century paramilitary organization or terrorist group first introduced in the 1994 episode " The Maquis " of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, who subsequently also appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager.

* Dan Simmons, science-fiction author ( who dedicated his novel Ilium to the college )

References to the experiment can be found in many other works, including an episode of The X-Files entitled " Død Kalm ", Sanctuary, The Triangle, the Doctor Who audio drama The Macros, the collaborative science-fiction novella Green Fire, and the novels The Spy who Haunted Me, Ship of the Damned, and Retromancer.

Serling replaced this science-fiction element with a street peddler who could magically perform the same function.

In 1965, since he was considered an accomplished science-fiction film director who could work wonders with a very small budget, Margheriti was hired by MGM to direct four Italian space movies that became known as the Gamma-One series.

John Carpenter's Starman is a 1984 science-fiction fantasy film directed by John Carpenter that tells the story of an alien ( Jeff Bridges ) who has come to Earth in response to the invitation found on the gold phonograph record installed on the Voyager 2 space probe.

Brian Stableford, in Scientific Romance in Britain: 1890-1950 argued that early British science-fiction writers who used this term differed in several significant ways from American science fiction writers of the time.

The early 1980s science-fiction drama Blake's 7 used several locations ; the Russell T Davies reboot of Doctor Who has also filmed in the area ; Blake's 7 was conceived and produced by Terry Nation, who also wrote many Doctor Who scripts and created the Daleks.

Philip José Farmer's 1982 science-fiction novel A Barnstormer in Oz tells the story of hotshot aviator Henry " Hank " Stover — who is not at all surprised one beautiful spring day in 1923 when he flies his Curtiss Jenny biplane through a strange green cloud and finds himself in a land populated by small people where animals talk and magic works.

Briefly becomes a world-travelling Pro-solar mechanic who goes on science-fiction flavored adventures in the early issues.

Hacker attended the Bronx High School of Science, where she met her future husband Samuel R. Delany, who became a well-known science-fiction writer.

Joe 90 is a late-1960s British science-fiction television series documenting the exploits of a nine-year-old boy, Joe McClaine, who embarks on a double life as a schoolboy turned spy when his scientist father invents a pioneering machine capable of duplicating and transferring expert knowledge and experience to another human brain.

in the 1970s, and Miss Pendragon was played by Jacqueline Pearce, who was well known for her role as the villainous Servalan in the late 1970s / early 80s BBC science-fiction series Blake's 7, and known by Cant from working with her on the serial Moondial.

It was all boardgames until I became friends with science-fiction writers who were into D & D games, so I gave the game a try.

Boyle, who won an Emmy Award in 1996 for a guest-starring role on the science-fiction drama The X-Files, won praise in both comedic and dramatic parts following his breakthrough performance in the 1970 film Joe.

At the 67th science-fiction world convention in Montreal, Paul Krugman, the Nobel laureate in Economics, mentioned Hari Seldon, a central character in Foundation who was a psychohistorian, as his inspiration to study Economics since it's the closest thing to Psychohistory, according to P. Krugman.

The latter combined the names of Anthony Burgess ' dystopian science-fiction novel A Clockwork Orange ( 1962 ) with Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ( 1968 ), a work of literary journalism devoted to the Merry Pranksters, a U. S. communal counter-cultural group who advocated the use of psychedelic drugs.

The film was written and directed by Shatner and featured the original Star Trek captain interviewing every other actor who had portrayed a captain within the science-fiction franchise.

Ayerdhal, who holds the genre of science fiction in the highest regard, not only as a tool for learning but as tool for the expression of one's imagination and political inspirations, has stated several reasons for why he believes French science-fiction has sold badly over the years.

McCormack starred in the science-fiction film Alien Trespass ( 2009 ), in which he played Doctor Ted Lewis who gets possessed by an alien marshal, Urp, after he crash-lands on Earth.