Alec Ash from LARB talks with Chinese science fiction writer Fei Dao about science fiction in China.

Robert Anson Heinlein ( July 7, 1907 May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction writer.

In 1951, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke forecast that man would reach the Moon by 1978.

Stanisław Lem ( 12 September 1921 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy and satire.

Tom Arden is the pseudonym of a British science fiction and fantasy writer, who was born in Australia.

Master of the World (), published in 1904, is one of the last novels by French pioneer science fiction writer, Jules Verne.

The British Science Fiction Association was founded in 1958 by a group of British science fiction fans, authors, publishers and booksellers, in order to encourage science fiction in every form.

Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific accuracy or technical detail, or on both.

Larsson's first efforts at writing fiction were not in the genre of crime, but rather science fiction.

I Am Legend is a 1954 horror fiction novel by American writer Richard Matheson.

Is isn't even a scene from a science fiction flick.

The short stories were published in popular science fiction magazines.

Deliberately manipulating the earth s climate seems like something from science fiction.

Frans Sammut (November 19, 1945 May 4, 2011) was a Maltese novelist and non fiction writer.

Yelubay was the first writer to chronicle Kazakhstan s famine in fiction, in his novel The Lonely Yurt.

This scene remains shocking, but, like most science fiction, it has aged.

During this period she also became a member of science fiction fandom.

More than 50 years ago, visionaries like the British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke and the German (and American) rocket engineer Wernher von Braun laid out a series of steps for the journey into space.

In fiction Futures and futuristic alien civilizations in which some or all infectious diseases have been eradicated are a staple of science fiction.

Science fiction sometimes limits rather than expands our sense of what is possible.

And even if moral pills are just science fiction, they raise deep questions.

So one of my favorite projects was bringing all this stuff together in an artistic display of an android portrait of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, who wrote great works like, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Is this science fiction? No, because I'm wearing the first application of this technology.

The notion seems like science fiction everyone knows that AI is not particularly clever.

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells published in 1897.

The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster.

In 1973 it was also included in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two .

Many of you will realize that I'm ripping a bit off of the science fiction writer Vernor Vinge's notion of a technological singularity, where a number of trends accelerate and converge and come together to create, really, a shockingly new reality.

Celebrated African writer Helon Habila describes the opening line of House of Hunger as the coolest opening line in African fiction

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells.

And all my favorite science fiction movies I want to basically play out here as different dynamics.

Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein.

I don't know why it's impossible, but, even for a moment, if you did assume that it's impossible I have a quotation from Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the science fiction writer whom I met in Colombo, and he said something which completely solves this problem.

If the past is any guide, much of what seems like science fiction today will become reality tomorrow.

Fiction vs. Non Fiction Some fiction writers are journalists.

The public viewed space travel as science fiction, a form of popular entertainment thought to have little chance of realization.

The Man Booker International Prize for Fiction came out this week, and South Korean writer Han Kang got the brass ring for her novel The Vegetarian.

Ben 10 Secret of the Omnitrix is an animated science fiction film based on the American animated television series Ben 10 .

Resident Evil Retribution is a 2012 American Canadian German science fiction action horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson.

The Last Man on Earth () is a 1964 science fiction horror film based on the Richard Matheson 1954 novel I Am Legend .

Predator) is a 2004 American science fiction action film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson and starring Sanaa Lathan and Lance Henriksen.

When I grew up and realized that science fiction was not a good source for superpowers, I decided instead to embark on a journey of real science, to find a more useful truth.

Similarly, the concept of using geo engineering to respond to climate change has moved from science fiction to an area of serious research.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a 1964 science fiction comedy film that regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made.

International phone calls were prohibitively expensive, and the idea of actually seeing someone while you talked to them was the stuff of science fiction.