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David J. Williams (herpetologist)
__NOTOC__ David J. Williams (born March 5, 1971) is a British-born American science fiction writer and video game writer. His debut novel, ''The Mirrored Heavens'', was described as " Tom Clancy interfacing Bruce Sterling" by Stephen Baxter, and is part of the ''Autumn Rain Trilogy'', with a sequel entitled ''The Burning Skies'' released in June 2009. Though Jack Campbell has called Williams' debut novel a "21st century Neuromancer", others have questioned whether Williams' work is in fact cyberpunk. However Williams has responded in interviews that the ''Autumn Rain trilogy'' is more of a hybrid spy-thriller and science fiction work than strictly cyberpunk. Williams keeps an active blog at his website, and comments on various future weapons, war strategies and terrorism. Williams is also an alumnus of the Clarion West Writers Workshop which he attended in 2007. Video game career Williams is credited with story concept for Relic Entertainment's videogame '' Homeworld''. ... [...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] |
Deserts Of Kharak
A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to denudation. About one-third of the land surface of the Earth is arid or semi-arid. This includes much of the polar regions, where little precipitation occurs, and which are sometimes called polar deserts or "cold deserts". Deserts can be classified by the amount of precipitation that falls, by the temperature that prevails, by the causes of desertification or by their geographical location. Deserts are formed by weathering processes as large variations in temperature between day and night put strains on the rocks, which consequently break in pieces. Although rain seldom occurs in deserts, there are occasional downpours that can result in flash floods. Rain falling on hot rocks can cause them to shatter, and the resulting fragments and rubble strewn over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
