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1904 In Science Fiction
The year 1904 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Events Awards The main Outline of science fiction#Science fiction awards, science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels * ''Master of the World (novel), Master of the World'' (in French : ''La Maître du monde''), novel by Jules Verne. Stories collections Short stories Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies * ''The Impossible Voyage'' (in French : ''Le Voyage à travers l'impossible''), by par Georges Méliès. See also * 1904 in science * 1903 in science fiction * 1905 in science fiction References {{Reflist Fiction set in 1904, * 1904 in film, science-fiction Science fiction by year ... [...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] |
Outline Of Science Fiction
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to science fiction: Science fiction – a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting. Exploring the consequences of such innovations is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas". What is science fiction? * Definitions of science fiction: Science fiction includes such a wide range of themes and subgenres that it is notoriously difficult to define. Accordingly, there have been many definitions offered. Another challenge is that there is disagreement over where to draw the boundaries between science fiction and related genres. Science fiction is a type of: * Fiction – form of narrative which deals, in part or in whole, with events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and invented by its author(s). Although fiction often describes a major branch of literary work, it is also app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Master Of The World (novel)
''Master of the World'' (french: Maître du monde), published in 1904, is one of the last novels by French pioneer science fiction writer, Jules Verne. At the time Verne wrote the novel, his health was failing. ''Master of the World'' is a "black novel," filled with foreboding and fear of the rise of tyrants such as the novel's villain, Robur, and totalitarianism. Plot outline Set in the summer of 1903, a series of unexplained events occur across the Eastern United States, caused by objects moving with such great speed that they are nearly invisible. The first-person narrator, John Strock, 'Head inspector in the federal police department' in Washington, DC, travels to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to investigate. He discovers that all the phenomena are being caused by Robur, a brilliant inventor. (He was previously featured as a character in Verne's ''Robur the Conqueror.'') Robur has perfected a new machine, which he has dubbed the ''Terror.'' It is a ten-mete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraordinaires'', a series of bestselling adventure novels including ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' (1864), ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' (1870), and '' Around the World in Eighty Days'' (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time. In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games. Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Impossible Voyage
''The Impossible Voyage'' (french: Le Voyage à travers l'impossible), also known as ''An Impossible Voyage'' and ''Whirling the Worlds'', is a 1904 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. Inspired by Jules Verne's play '' Journey Through the Impossible'', and modeled in style and format on Méliès's earlier, highly successful '' A Trip to the Moon'', the film is a satire of scientific exploration in which a group of geographically minded tourists attempt a journey to the sun using various methods of transportation. The film was a significant international success at the time of its release, and has been well received by film historians. Plot Note: ''Since the film is silent and has no intertitles, the proper names and quotations below are taken from the English-language description of the film published by Méliès in the catalog of the Star Film Company's New York Branch.'' A society of geographical enthusiasts, the Institute of Incoherent Geography, plans to make ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Méliès
Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (; ; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French illusionist, actor, and film director. He led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was well known for the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards. His films include '' A Trip to the Moon'' (1902) and ''The Impossible Voyage'' (1904), both involving strange, surreal journeys somewhat in the style of Jules Verne, and are considered among the most important early science fiction films, though their approach is closer to fantasy. The 2011 film ''Hugo'' was inspired by the life and work of Méliès. Early life and education Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès was born 8 December 1861 in Paris, son of Jean-Louis Méliès and his Dutch wife, Johannah-Catherine Schuering. His father h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1904 In Science
The year 1904 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy * Johannes Franz Hartmann discovers the interstellar medium. * Edward Walter Maunder plots the first sunspot "butterfly diagram". * Notable asteroid 522 Helga is discovered by Max Wolf in Heidelberg. * December 3 – The sixth moon of Jupiter, later called Himalia, is discovered at Lick Observatory. Cartography * Van der Grinten projection proposed. Mathematics * Henri Poincaré discovers the Poincaré homology sphere, leading him to formulate the Poincaré conjecture. * Helge von Koch describes the "Koch snowflake", one of the earliest fractal curves described. * Charles Spearman develops his rank correlation coefficient. * Ernst Zermelo formulates the axiom of choice to formalize his proof of the well-ordering theorem. Medicine * September 17 – An early study on the relationship between alcohol and cardiovascular disease is published in the United States. * Epinephrine f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 In Science Fiction
The year 1903 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * January 3 : René Brantonne, French illustrator and cartoonist (died 1979) * May 21 : Manly Wade Wellman, American writer (died 1986) * June 25 : George Orwell, British writer and journalist (died 1950) * July 10 : John Wyndham, British writer (died 1969) Deaths Events Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels * ''Force ennemie'', French novel by John Antoine Nau. Stories collections Short stories Publication of ''The Land Ironclads'' by H.G. Wells. A pre-vision of military tanks, including their use in overrunning positions defended by infantry. The land ironclads used feet rather than caterpillar tracks to traverse irregular terrain. The story is narrated by a war correspondent. Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies See also * 1903 in science * 1902 in science fictio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1905 In Science Fiction
The year 1905 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * January 6: Eric Frank Russell, British writer (d. 1978) * July 5: Günther Krupkat, German writer (d. 1990) Deaths * March 24: Jules Verne, French writer, (b. 1828) Literary releases Short stories * Rudyard Kipling, "With the Night Mail" (American and British magazine publication). * '' Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes'', short story by Mark Twain. See also * 1905 in science * 1904 in science fiction * 1906 in science fiction References {{Reflist * 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 unive ... Science fiction by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiction Set In 1904
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditional narrow sense, "fiction" refers to written narratives in prose often referring specifically to novels, novellas, and short stories. More broadly, however, fiction encompasses imaginary narratives expressed in any medium, including not just writings but also live theatrical performances, films, television programs, radio dramas, comics, role-playing games, and video games. Definition Typically, the fictionality of a work is publicly marketed and so the audience expects the work to deviate in some ways from the real world rather than presenting, for instance, only factually accurate portrayals or characters who are actual people. Because fiction is generally understood to not fully adhere to the real world, the themes and conte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1904 In Film
The year 1904 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events * As shown in the film series '' Westinghouse Works'', some filmmakers begin to move away from eye-level filmmaking and use the camera to explore spaces from an angle usually inaccessible to the average person. * William Fox purchases his first Nickelodeon. * 23 June: Marcus Loew founds the theatre chain, the People's Vaudeville Company, which later was renamed Loews Theatres which was the oldest theatre chain operating in North America when it was merged with AMC Theatres in 2006 Films released in 1904 A * ''Audley Range School, Blackburn'', produced by Mitchell and Kenyon – ( GB) * ''Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup'', directed by Billy Bitzer and A.E. Weed – ( US) B * ''The Bewitched Traveller'', directed by Lewin Fitzhamon and Cecil Hepworth – ( GB) * ''Blackpool Victoria Pier'', produced by Mitchell and Kenyon – ( GB) * ''The Bold Bank Robbery'', directed by Jack Frawley – ( US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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