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Isaac's Universe
''Isaac's Universe'' is a fictional universe created by Isaac Asimov for other science fiction writers to use as a setting. It introduces the collaborative science fiction universe created by Asimov which eventually resulted in five volumes: three short story collections and two novels. It was initiated by Martin H. Greenberg, who also edited and published its three short stories collection by Avon Books starting in 1990. ''Volume One: The Diplomacy Guild'' is 258 pages long, not counting an additional couple of pages in back on the authors contributing their works. There is also an introduction by Asimov that is seven pages long. This was followed by ''Volume Two: Phases in Chaos'' and ''Volume Three: Unnatural Diplomacy''. The novels are: ''Fossil'' by Hal Clement and ''Murder at the Galactic Writers' Society'' by Janet Asimov. The premise of Isaac's Universe is that the Milky Way Galaxy in the future is populated by six high-tech, space-faring species, a response by Asimov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Asimov
yi, יצחק אזימאװ , birth_date = , birth_place = Petrovichi, Russian SFSR , spouse = , relatives = , children = 2 , death_date = , death_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S. , nationality = Russian (1920–1922)Soviet (1922–1928)American (1928–1992) , occupation = Writer, professor of biochemistry , years_active = 1939–1992 , genre = Science fiction (hard SF, social SF), mystery, popular science , subject = Popular science, science textbooks, essays, history, literary criticism , education = Columbia University ( BA, MA, PhD) , movement = Golden Age of Science Fiction , module = , signature = Isaac Asimov signature.svg Isaac Asimov ( ; 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. A prolific writer, he wrote or edited more than 500 books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction. He is a multiple winner of both Hugo and Nebula Awards, a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame, and a Grand Master of SF. He has attended every Hugo Awards ceremony since the inaugural event in 1953. Biography Early years Silverberg was born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York. A voracious reader since childhood, he began submitting stories to science fiction magazines during his early teenage years. He received a BA in English Literature from Columbia University, in 1956. While at Columbia, he wrote the juvenile novel ''Revolt on Alpha C'' (1955), published by Thomas Y. Crowell with the cover notice: "A gripping story of outer space". He won his first Hugo in 1956 as the "best new writer". That year Silverberg was the author or co-author of four of the six stories in the August issue of ''Fantastic'', breaking his record set in the previ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robot Series
The ''Robot'' series is a series of 37 science fiction short stories and six novels by American writer Isaac Asimov, featuring positronic robots. Later, Asimov would merge the ''Robot'' series with his ''Foundation'' series. Robot novels and stories The series started in 1940, with the story "Robbie" in the September 1940 ''Super Science Stories'' (appearing under the title "Strange Playfellow", which was not Asimov's title). Although it was originally written as a stand-alone story, the following year Asimov published a series of additional robot stories, which fit together into a narrative that was then put together as the book ''I, Robot''. List of works in the Robot series, in chronological order by narrative # ''I, Robot'' (1950) and later collections: ''The Complete Robot'' (1982), ''Robot Dreams'' (1986), ''Robot Visions'' (1990), and ''Gold'' (1995). #* In 1964, ''The Rest of the Robots'' was published - all of the short stories in that collection are found in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Monk
Patricia Monk (1938-2021) was a professor at Dalhousie University from 1970 to her retirement in 2003. She was the first woman to be promoted to full professor in Dalhousie's English department and is known for her work on Canadian literature and science fiction. She was born in Stockport, and died at the age of 83 on 29 December 2021 in Halifax. Selected publications ''Alien Theory: The Alien as Archetype in the Science Fiction Short Story'' (2006) ''Mud and Magic Shows: Robertson Davies's Fifth Business'' (1992) ''The Gilded Beaver: An Introduction to the Life and Work of James De Mille James De Mille (23 August 1833 – 28 January 1880) was a professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and an early Canadian novelist who published numerous works of popular fiction from the late 1860s through the 1870s. Life De Mille w ...'' (Toronto: ECW Press, 1991) ''The Smaller Infinity: Jungian Self in the Novels of Robertson Davies'' (1982) References External links < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shared Universe
A shared universe or shared world is a fictional universe from a set of creative works where more than one writer (or other artist) independently contributes a work that can stand alone but fits into the joint development of the storyline, characters, or world of the overall project. It is common in genres like science fiction. It differs from collaborative writing in which multiple artists are working together on the same work and from crossovers where the works and characters are independent except for a single meeting. The term ''shared universe'' is also used within comics to reflect the overall milieu created by the comic book publisher in which characters, events, and premises from one product line appear in other product lines in a media franchise. A specific kind of shared universe that is published across a variety of media (such as novels and films), each of them contributing to the growth, history, and status of the setting is called an "imaginary entertainment enviro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Westfahl
Gary Wesley Westfahl (born May 7, 1951) is an American scholar of science fiction. He has written reviews for the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Internet Review of Science Fiction'' and Locus Online. He worked at the University of California, Riverside until 2011 and is now an adjunct professor at the University of La Verne. Personal life Westfahl was born in Washington, DC, in 1951. In 1986 he graduated from Claremont University with a PhD in English. He currently resides in Claremont, California, with his wife Lynne and cats Darwin and Skippy. His daughter, Allison, is a U.S. Attorney, his son-in-law, Steven Kong, is a doctor, and his son, Jeremy Anson, teaches mathematics at UC Irvine and has retired as a professional '' Super Smash Bros. Melee'' player known as Fly Amanita. Work Westfahl coordinates English programs at the university's Learning Center and "has written or edited 24 books of scholarship on science fiction". He teaches science fiction, but has not written any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Ore
Rebecca Ore is the pseudonym of science fiction writer Rebecca B. Brown. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1948. In 1968 she moved to New York City and attended Columbia University. Rebecca Ore is known for the ''Becoming Alien'' series and her short stories. Her novel ''Time's Child'' was published by Eos (HarperCollins) in February 2007. ''Centuries Ago and Very Fast'', described as a "collection of linked stories", was published by Aqueduct Press in April 2009. Awards Ore was shortlisted for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1988. ''Becoming Alien'' and ''Being Alien'' were each nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award in 1988 and 1989. Her short story "Accelerated Grimace" was shortlisted for an Otherwise Award in 1998. ''Centeries Ago and Very Fast'' was a finalist for the 2010 Lambda Literary The Lambda Literary Foundation (also known as Lambda Literary) is an American LGBT literature, LGBTQ literary organization whose mission is to nurture and advocat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Alec Effinger
George Alec Effinger (January 10, 1947 – April 27, 2002) was an American list of science fiction authors, science fiction author, born in Cleveland, Ohio. Writing career Effinger was a part of the Clarion Workshop, Clarion class of 1970 and had three stories in the first Clarion anthology. His first published story was "The Eight-Thirty to Nine Slot" in ''Fantastic (magazine), Fantastic'' in 1971. During his early period, he also published under a variety of pseudonyms. His first novel, ''What Entropy Means to Me'' (1972), was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award. He achieved his greatest success with the trilogy of Marîd Audran novels set in a 22nd-century Middle East, with cybernetic implants and modules allowing individuals to change their personalities or bodies. The novels are in fact set in a thinly veiled version of the French Quarter of New Orleans. The three published novels were ''When Gravity Fails'' (1987), ''A Fire in the Sun'' (1989), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Kagan
Janet Kagan (born Janet Megson, April 18, 1946 – February 29, 2008) was an American author. Her works include two science fiction novels and two science fiction collections, plus numerous science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in publications such as ''Analog Science Fiction and Fact'' and ''Asimov's Science Fiction''. Her story " The Nutcracker Coup" was nominated for both the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, winning the Hugo. Awards Kagan won the Asimov's Reader Poll award for best Novelette in 1990 for "The Loch Moose Monster", in 1991 for "Getting the Bugs Out" and in 1993 for "The Nutcracker Coup", which also won the 1993 Hugo award. Works Novels *''Uhura's Song'' (1985) *''Hellspark'' (1988) Collections *'' Mirabile'' (1991) *''The Collected Kagan'' (2016) Short stories Mirabile series *"The Loch Moose Monster" (1989) *"The Return of the Kangaroo Rex" (1989) F*"The Flowering Inferno" (1990) F*"Getting the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Watt-Evans
Lawrence Watt-Evans (born 1954) is one of the pseudonyms of American science fiction and fantasy author Lawrence Watt Evans (another pseudonym, used primarily for science fiction, is Nathan Archer). Biography Born in Arlington, Massachusetts, as the fourth of six children, he made his first attempts at professional writing when he was eight. After graduating from Bedford High School in Bedford, Massachusetts, he attended Princeton University but left without a degree. By the rules of Princeton, he could not reapply for a year, during which he began to seriously try to sell his writing, but he sold nothing significant until ''The Lure of the Basilisk'' in 1979 (published 1980); he began then writing full-time. Despite having sold a short story and several articles under his real name, he initially submitted his first novel under a pseudonym. It was the editor of that novel, Lester del Rey, who first demanded for him to use his real name, and del Rey added the hyphen to create th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Haber
Karen Haber (born January 9,"She came upon the story somehow, was startled and amused to find that she shared a birthday with its protagonist (...) Her name was Karen Haber (...) Today was her birthday, the seventh of January": introduction to "Capricorn Games", by Robert Silverberg, reprinted in ''On Spec'' #117 (vol. 31 no. 3), p.24-25 1955) is an American science fiction and non-fiction author and editor, as well as an art critic and historian. She is the author of nine novels including '' Star Trek Voyager: Bless the Beasts'', and co-author of ''Science of the X-Men''. Other publications include ''Exploring the Matrix: Visions of the Cyber Present'', a collection of essays by leading science fiction writers and artists, and ''Transitions with Todd Lockwood'', a retrospective of the artist's work. In 2001 she edited a Hugo-nominated essay collection celebrating J. R. R. Tolkien, ''Meditations on Middle-Earth''. Her short fiction has appeared in ''Asimov's Science Fiction'' maga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allen Steele
Allen Mulherin Steele, Jr. (born January 19, 1958) is an American journalist and science fiction author. Background Steele was born in Nashville, Tennessee on January 19, 1958. He was introduced to science fiction fandom attending meetings of Nashville's science fiction club. He graduated high school from the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, received a bachelor's degree from New England College and a master's from the University of Missouri. Writing Before he established himself as a science fiction author, he spent several years working as a journalist. Steele began publishing short stories in 1988. His early novels formed a future history beginning with ''Orbital Decay'' and continuing through ''Labyrinth of Night''. Some of his early novels such as ''Orbital Decay'' and ''Lunar Descent'' were about blue-collar workers working on future construction projects in space. Since 1992, he has tended to focus on stand-alone projects and short stories, although he has wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
