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1927 In Science Fiction
The year 1927 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * June: Lynn Venable * July 19 : Richard E. Geis, American writer (died 2013) * July 25 : Pierre-Jean Brouillaud, French writer * August 9 : Daniel Keyes, American writer (died 2014) * October 3 : Donald R. Bensen, American writer and editor (died 1997) Deaths Events Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels * '' Radiopolis'', by Otfrid von Hanstein. * '' Dix mille lieues dans les airs'', by Otfrid von Hanstein. * '' The Garin Death Ray'' by Alexey N. Tolstoy. Stories collections Short stories * ''Night on the Galactic Railroad'', by Kenji Miyazawa. * ''The Colour Out of Space'', by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies * ''Metropolis'', by Fritz Lang. See also * 1927 in science * 1926 in science fiction * 1928 in science fiction Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction By Year
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
