In the IDF, the demolition experts are united in Sayeret Yael of Yahalom ( Sayeret is the Israeli name for SF elite unit ) and therefore gain high infantry training as well.

The ICEC has a special unit, called Yahalom ( in Hebrew it means " Diamond " but also abbreviation of " Engineering Unit for Special Operations ") which handles EOD, commando, demolition and sabotage, engineering recon, advance robotics, tunnel warfare, maritime breaching, counter-NBC, and other classified tasks.

The name " Yahalom " ( Diamond in Hebrew ) is an abbreviation of " Special Operations Engineering Unit ".

* Recent reports indicate that Yahalom has acquired remote-controlled robots that it can insert into tunnels, obviating the need for human operators to risk their lives.

Yahalom bomb disposal experts and IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozers cleared most of Hizbullah's IEDs.

Yahalom also uses the up-armored IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozer and the remote-controlled " Raam HaShachar " version of the D9 ( which were found extremely useful for special operation and CT duties ), an armored Excavator with drills, the IDF Puma CEV, and Nakpuma, a Nakpadon APC modified to Yahalom's requirements.

Most of the equipment that Yahalom has developed for its missions is classified.

After 2004 APC incident the Rafah tunnel team was united with the Combat Engineering Corps elite unit Yahalom and was renamed Sayeret Samur (" Samur " means " Weasel " in Hebrew ).

* May 18, 1937: The Super Chief-2 commences its first regular run, led by Unit 1A and EMC demonstrator Unit 512 ( a. k. a. AT & SF Unit 1C ), as it departs Chicago's Dearborn Station.

* 26th Special Operations Helicopter Unit " Giove "-a special helicopter unit trained to support, supply, infiltrate / exfiltrate SF and SOF units in enemy territory.

It was conceived as a deliberate break from the traditions of pulp SF, which many of the writers involved considered irrelevant and unambitious.

O ' Donnell ( aka Barry Malzberg ), 1971, takes place at a New York City science fiction convention and features broad parodies of many SF fans and authors.

Over the years, the Roxie has been home to many film festivals such as the Frameline Film Festival, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, the Arab Film Festival, SF Indiefest, and many others.

The venue was again opened in September 2007 under the name Club 443 by management who were primarily interested in Hip Hop and who eventually proved to be quite hostile to punk and metal-However they agreed to allow T & T Presents, an SF based music promotions agency which booked many punk and metal shows at the Mabuhay from the late 1970s through mid-1980s to host a series of shows under the name of " The Old Mab " and using the Mabuhay Gardens logo with the blessing of the Aquino family.

Ackerman was a long-time fan who created Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, which celebrated the monster / SF movies that were frowned upon by many hardcore science fiction fans as being too poor in quality to be taken seriously, and definitely not to be confused with " real " science fiction.

: there are no very creditable explanations for his flood of anthologies in the mid-1970s ; that the publishers who bought them would never have done so if they'd had any idea that he was carpet-bombing SF publishing with anthology projects ; that many of his anthologies ( if not all the stories in them ) were well below par in terms of their quality ; and that the subsequent collapse of the anthology and story-collection market did long-term damage to science fiction as a whole.

Solar Sales eventually represented many prominent SF and fantasy writers, including John Russell Fearn, Alfred Bester, Stanley Weinbaum, H. P. Lovecraft, and Ray Bradbury.

" According to Samuel R. Delany, the book is " considered by many to be the greatest single SF novel ".

" Le Guin often explores alternative sexuality in her works, and has subsequently written many stories that examine the possibilities SF allows for non-traditional homosexuality, such as the bisexual bonding between clones in " Nine Lives ".

The use of characters from major SF franchises in " gay readings " has caused legal action: LucasFilm has sent cease and desist orders to prevent gay reinterpretations of Star Wars characters, and Anne Rice is notorious for attempts to stop production of slash fiction based on her Vampire Chronicles characters, although many of the characters are bisexual in canon.

Unlike many other SF specialty stores, Bakka has remained almost exclusively a bookstore ; it does not sell toys, games, comics, memorabilia, or collectibles.

Because Mekton has a relatively low amount of official support, and because it is designed as a universal " tool kit " role-playing system rather than being themed around a particular anime series ( though fans of the system note that it is decidedly skewed toward " hard SF " type mecha anime, like Gundam and Macross ), many fan settings have appeared for it since its release.

Also many scout platoons have few fully operational units so while they ideally can be used as an expert enemy element with local know-how for on the Danish annually SF training operations like NightHawk they often lack numbers.

The roster of Cosmos writers included many of the leading lights of SF, fantasy, horror, and adventure fiction in that era, including A. Merritt, E. E.

" Birthright " can also be seen as the antithesis of the SF stereotype of vicious, dangerous aliens who threaten mankind, as seen e. g. in Starship Troopers, the Predator and Alien movies, and many others.

As with much utopian and dystopian fiction in the former Soviet bloc countries, where open criticism of the government was dangerous and subject to censorship, this book was interpreted by many as in fact a criticism of the system disguised as an SF novel to evade censorship.

Operating in a relatively accurately realised hard SF, near-future, space environment, many of the cases that the Star Cops investigate arise from opportunities for new crimes presented by the technologically advanced future society the series depicts and from the hostile frontier nature of the environment that the Star Cops live in.

More recently she directed the West Coast Premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner, Doubt ( Linda Hunt ) at the Pasadena Playhouse, Memory House, End Days and " Tape " and numerous workshops-Modern Orthodox, Adam Baum and the Jew Movie by Daniel Goldfarb, and The Parents ' Evening by Bash Doran at the Vineyard Playhouse, Huck and Holden by Rajiv Joseph at the Black Dahlia, La Bella Famiglia at ACT SF, Act a Lady and Sweet Mercy at Antaeus, and many others.

Common among most hackers, SF fans, and members of several other connected leading-edge subcultures, including the pro-technology ' Whole Earth ' wing of the ecology movement, space activists, many members of Mensa, and the Discordian / neo-pagan underground ( see geek ).

The Emily Chesley Reading Circle is a group of Canadian writers who have perpetrated a hoax based upon the creation of a fictional writer from the Victorian era ( who lived in their hometown of London, Ontario ), whose writings predate many of the important SF and fantasy works of the 20th century.

is a tokusatsu SF / kaiju series made in the tradition of Toho's many tokusatsu sci-fi / horror films.

His Histoire de la science-fiction moderne, 1911-1971 of Modern SF ” ( 1973 ; in 2 volumes 1975 ; revised 1984 ) is a lengthy and enthusiastic survey of the field, but has been criticized for lacking deep critical analysis and containing too many sweeping generalizations and personal prejudices.

* Jeff St. John ( part-time, spent many years in afternoons at KYLD San Francisco and KBIG in Los Angeles, now afternoons at Movin in SF )

* Space Cadets: guidelines for a space opera setting, in the form of various types of character classes, SF weaponry and psychic powers.

Two types of framing schemes are Super Frame ( SF ) and Extended Super Frame ( ESF ).

These two types of framing ( SF, and ESF ) use their 8 kbit / s framing channel in different ways.

The New Wave writers believed that the tropes of the pulp and Golden Age periods had become worn out, and should be abandonded: J. G. Ballard stated in 1962 that " science fiction should turn its back on space, on interstellar travel, extra-terrestrial life forms, ( and ) galactic wars ", and Brian Aldiss said in Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction that " the props of SF are few: rocket ships, telepathy, robots, time travel ... like coins, they become debased by over-circulation.

Published in PDF and HTML versions and including most of Weinbaum's SF, three long adventures, and details of the worlds and technology of the setting.

Basketball is also fairly a big sport in the city, including the clubs Malbas and SF Srbija among others.

By 2006-7, the Moldovan Ground Forces had been reduced to a strength of 5, 710, including three motor rifle brigades, one artillery brigade, and independent SF and engineer battalions, plus an independent guard unit.

The television series Star Trek: The Next Generation ( 1987 ) began a torrent of new SF shows, including three further Star Trek spin-off shows and Babylon 5.

Some hard SF authors have distinguished themselves as working scientists, including Gregory Benford, Geoffrey A. Landis and David Brin, while mathematician authors include Rudy Rucker and Vernor Vinge.

This has often included the national SF awards of the host country, including the Japanese Seiun Awards as part of Nippon 2007, and the Prix Aurora Awards as part of Anticipation 2009.

In early May 2003, after receiving numerous complaints about newswire stories that referred to the Israel Defence Forces as " Zionazi forces " or to Israelis as " Zionazis ", Google temporarily stopped including some IMCs in Google News searches, justifying the removal by describing the term as a " degrading, hateful slur " and refused to index the Bay Area IMC because it had appeared there ; SF Bay Area Indymedia agreed that it " could be considered hate speech ".

He is a frequent Guest of Honor at SF conventions, including Arisia, Boskone and Albacon.

Today, the Castro Theatre hosts repertory movies, film festivals, and special events, including gay and multicultural focus, such as the San Francisco International Film Festival, Frameline: the SF International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Noir City: The Film Noir Festival, the SF International Asian American Film Festival, the SF International South Asian Film Festival, Berlin and Beyond: German Film Festival, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, SF Indiefest, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Midnites for Maniacs, and the Shock It To Me!

Inter-species reproduction and alien-human hybrids frequently occur in science fiction, and women being impregnated by aliens is a common theme in SF horror films, including I Married a Monster from Outer space, Village of the Damned, Xtro, and Inseminoid.

In 2009, Van Gelder compiled The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology, including stories in F & SF issues ranging from 1951 ( Alfred Bester's " Of Time and Third Avenue ") to 2007 (" The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate " by Ted Chiang ).

The SF further consolidated its gains in municipal elections including the City Council of Georgetown, Penang where it won 14 of the 15 seats in the Council during the 1961 Local Elections.

By 1930, Weisinger was active in some of the earliest SF fan clubs and fanzines, including The Planet.

As well as the main webstore with a wide range of comics, SF and cult merchandise and graphic novels ( including a number of British small press titles ) there are also sites dedicated to new comics and back issues.

In comparison, Geoff Ryman has claimed that the gay and SF genre markets are incompatible, with his books being marketed as one or the other, but never both, and David Seed said that SF purists have denied that SF that focuses on soft science fiction themes and marginalised groups ( including " gay SF ") is " real " science fiction.

At least as early as the 1980 Worldcon ( Noreascon Two ), there were gatherings of gay and gay-friendly members of the SF community, including Samuel R. Delany, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Melissa Scott.

The Bay Guardian is one of several alternative newspapers in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, including the SF Weekly ( its major competitor ), East Bay Express, Metro Silicon Valley, North Bay Bohemian, Marin's Pacific Sun and Berkeley Daily Planet.