WHAT DOES SPACE FICTION MEAN IN ENGLISH?
Definition of space fiction in the English dictionary
The definition of space fiction in the dictionary is a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPACE FICTION»
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space fiction in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Space and Beyond: The Frontier Theme in Science
Fiction
This volume reexamines the themes of space and the frontier in science fiction in light of recent scientific and literary developments.
2
Feminist fabulation:
space/postmodern
fiction
Feminist fabulation calls for a new understanding which enables the canon to accommodate feminist difference and emphasizes that the literature called "feminist SF" is an importantsite of postmodern feminist difference.
3
Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science
Fiction
arise by chance. space fiction n. science fiction set primarily in space or that
involves space travel. Hence space-fictional, adj. 1948W. Sheldon Perfect
Servantin Startling Stories (July) 116/1: In Vienna I make my reputation on
musicals.
4
Social Foundations of Human
Space Exploration
Modern Science Fiction and Actual Spaceflight This optimistic view of the future
permeated much early science fiction and space fiction. But from the beginning,
other science fiction writers had more of a lovehate relation with technology and ...
5
Lost in
Space: Geographies of Science
Fiction
... of outer-space fiction. If fantasy is about being absent from home (the
abandoned child or assertive voyager of the fairy tale, the science-fiction traveller
or pioneer, and the inhabitant of the gothic mansion who finds her space invaded
from ...
Rob Kitchin, James Kneale, 2005
6
The Routledge Companion to Science
Fiction
Such stories were often contrasted, to their detriment, with the more sophisticated
space fiction of heinlein, asimov, and Clarke published in Campbell's Astounding
in the years immediately following the Second World War. indeed as late as ...
Mark Bould, Andrew Butler, Adam Roberts, 2009
7
Impossibility
Fiction: Alternativity, Extrapolation, Speculation
I will also examine how Ballard worked through the implications and possibilities
of 'inner space' fiction within SF and other genres, and how he apparently came
to the conclusion that inner space could be more profitably explored outside the ...
Derek Littlewood, Peter Stockwell, 1996
8
Science
Fiction and the Prediction of the Future: Essays on ...
Further, much space fiction was premised on another questionable analogy
between outer space and America: just as repressed Europeans traveled to Amer
- ica, started new lives, and achieved independence from Europe, future space ...
Gary Westfahl,, Wong Kin Yuen, Amy Kit-sze Chan, 2011
9
British Science
Fiction Film and Television: Critical Essays
But, alas, Hugh had been introduced to space fiction in the school playground.
Being a kindly child he listened politely as I recounted the sagas of the bunnies
and kittens. He even listened to the doings of all those sweet children, with their ...
Tobias Hochscherf, James Leggott, Donald E. Palumbo, 2011
10
Hugo Gernsback and the Century of Science
Fiction
When foreign publishers launched science fiction lines, their identifying symbols
were often similar: In Great Britain, publisher Hennel Locke used a picture of a
spaceship for its “space fiction”; in France, books in the Fleuve Noir science
fiction ...
Gary Westfahl, Donald E. Palumbo, C.W. Sullivan III, 2007
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'Interstellar' Movie Reviews: Christopher Nolan's Space Fiction Film …
While the latest and upcoming film by celebrated director Christopher Nolan is yet to be released in early November, there are some who got lucky to see the ... «Christian Post, Oct 14»
