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Second Variety
"Second Variety" is a science fiction Novella#Versus novelette, novelette by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in ''Space Science Fiction'' magazine, in May 1953, with illustrations by Alex Ebel. Set in a world where a war between the Soviet Union and the United Nations has reduced most of the world to a barren wasteland, the story concerns the discovery, by the few remaining soldiers left, that self-replicating robots originally built to assassinate Soviet agents have gained sentience and are now plotting against both sides. It is one of many stories by Dick examining the implications of nuclear war, particularly after it has destroyed much or all of the planet. The story was adapted into the film ''Screamers (1995 film), Screamers'' in 1995. The short story "Jon's World", written in 1954, serves as a sequel. Plot "Second Variety" occurs in the aftermath of an extensive nuclear war between the Soviet Union (sometimes referred to as Russia) and the United Nations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novella
A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories. The English word ''novella'' derives from the Italian meaning a short story related to true (or apparently so) facts. Definition The Italian term is a feminine of ''novello'', which means ''new'', similarly to the English word ''news''. Merriam-Webster defines a novella as "a work of fiction intermediate in length and complexity between a short story and a novel". There is disagreement regarding the number of pages or words necessary for a story to be considered a novella, a short story or a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association defines a novella's word count to be between 17,500 and 40,000 words; at 250 words per page, this equates to 70 to 160 pages. See below for definitions used by other organisations. History The novella as a literary genre began developing in the Italian literature of the early Renaissance, princip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Award For Best Novelette
The Hugo Award for Best Novelette is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novelette award is available for works of fiction of between 7,500 and 17,500 words; awards are also given out in the short story, novella and novel categories. The Hugo Awards have been described as "a fine showcase for speculative fiction" and "the best known literary award for science fiction writing". The Hugo Award for Best Novelette was first awarded in 1955, and was subsequently awarded in 1956 and 1959, lapsing in 1960. The category was reinstated for 1967 through 1969, before lapsing again in 1970; after returning in 1973, it has remained to date. In addition to the regular Hugo awards, beginning in 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro Hugos", have been available to be awarded for 50, 75, or 100 years prior. Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years after 1939 in which no awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheldon Wilson
Sheldon Wilson is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He is known for directing ''Shallow Ground'' (2004) and ''The Unspoken (film), The Unspoken'' (2015), and has also directed several List of Sci Fi Pictures original films, Sci Fi Pictures original films, including ''Kaw (film), Kaw'' (2006), ''Carny (2009 film), Carny'' (2009), ''Mothman (film), Mothman'', ''Red: Werewolf Hunter'' (both 2010), and ''Scarecrow (2013 film), Scarecrow'' (2013). Selected filmography Film Television References Bibliography * External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilson, Sheldon Canadian horror film directors Canadian television directors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proxy War
In political science, a proxy war is an armed conflict where at least one of the belligerents is directed or supported by an external third-party power. In the term ''proxy war'', a belligerent with external support is the ''proxy''; both belligerents in a proxy war can be considered proxies if both are receiving foreign military aid from a third party country. Acting either as a nation-state government or as a conventional force, a proxy belligerent acts in behalf of a third-party state sponsor. A proxy war is characterised by a direct, long-term, geopolitical relationship between the third-party sponsor states and their client states or non-state clients, thus the political sponsorship becomes military sponsorship when the third-party powers fund the soldiers and their ''matériel'' to equip the belligerent proxy-army to launch and fight and sustain a war to victory, and government power. However, the relationship between sponsors and proxies can be characterized by princ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dissolution Of The Soviet Union
The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Declaration No. 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, formally establishing the dissolution of the Soviet Union as a state and subject of international law. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government and General Secretary (also President) Mikhail Gorbachev's effort to reform the Soviet political and economic system in an attempt to stop a period of political stalemate and economic backslide. The Soviet Union had experienced internal stagnation and ethnic separatism. Although highly centralized until its final years, the country was made up of 15 top-level republics that served as the homelands for different ethnicities. By late 1991, amid a catastrophic political crisis, with several republics al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Weller
Peter Francis Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an American actor and television director. He has appeared in more than 70 films and television series, including ''RoboCop'' (1987) and its sequel ''RoboCop 2'' (1990), in which he played RoboCop (character), the titular character; ''The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension'' (1984); and ''Star Trek Into Darkness'' (2013). He appeared in such films as Woody Allen's ''Mighty Aphrodite'' (1995), the Oliver Stone-produced ''The New Age (film), The New Age'' (1994), and David Cronenberg's adaptation of William Burroughs's novel ''Naked Lunch (film), Naked Lunch'' (1991). In addition to a Saturn Award for Best Actor, Saturn Award nomination for his ''RoboCop'' role, he received an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Academy Award nomination for his 1993 short ''Partners'', in which he also acted. In television, he hosted the program ''Engineering an Empire'' on the History (American TV network), History Chann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selected Stories Of Philip K
Selection may refer to: Science * Selection (biology), also called natural selection, selection in evolution ** Sex selection, in genetics ** Mate selection, in mating ** Sexual selection in humans, in human sexuality ** Human mating strategies, in human sexuality * Social selection, within social groups * Selection (linguistics), the ability of predicates to determine the semantic content of their arguments * Selection in schools, the admission of students on the basis of selective criteria * Selection effect, a distortion of data arising from the way that the data are collected * A selection, or choice function, a function that selects an element from a set Religion * Divine selection, selection by God * Papal selection, selection by clergy Computing * Selection (user interface) ** X Window selection * Selection (evolutionary algorithm) * Selection (relational algebra) * Selection-based search, a search engine system in which the user invokes a search query using only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minority Report (2002 Collection)
''Minority Report'' is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Gollancz in 2002. Most of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines ''Fantastic Universe'', ''Astounding'', '' Space Science Fiction'', ''Galaxy Science Fiction'', ''Worlds of Tomorrow'', and ''Fantasy and Science Fiction''. Contents * untitled interview * Introduction, by Malcolm Edwards * " The Minority Report" * " Imposter" * "Second Variety" * " War Game" * " What the Dead Men Say" * "Oh, to Be a Blobel!" * " The Electric Ant" * " Faith of Our Fathers" * "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in ''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' in April 1966. It features a melding of reality, false memory, and real m ..." References * {{Philip K. Dick 2002 short story collections Short story collections by Phili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Philip K
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Variety (1991 Collection)
''Second Variety'' is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Citadel Twilight in 1991 and reprints Volume III of '' The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick'' with the addition of the story "Second Variety". Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines '' If'', ''Science Fiction Adventures'', ''Science Fiction Stories'', ''Orbit'', ''Fantasy and Science Fiction'', ''Imagination'', ''Future'', ''Galaxy Science Fiction'', '' Beyond Fantasy Fiction'', ''Satellite'', ''Science Fiction Quarterly'', ''Imaginative Tales'' and ''Space Science Fiction''. There is huge overlap with the 1997 ''The Philip K. Dick Reader'': stories 1–20 and 24 are identical. Contents * Introduction, by John Brunner * "Fair Game" * "The Hanging Stranger" * " The Eyes Have It" * "The Golden Man" * " The Turning Wheel" * "The Last of the Masters" * "The Father-Thing" * " Strange Eden" * " Tony and the Beetles" * " Null-O" * " To S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Variety (1989 Collection)
''Second Variety'' is a collection of science fiction stories by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was first published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, Gollancz in 1989 and reprints Volume II of ''The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick''. It had not previously been published as a stand-alone volume. Many of the stories had originally appeared in the magazines ''Fantasy Fiction'', ''Fantastic Universe'', ''Space Science Fiction'', ''Imagination (magazine), Imagination'', ''if (magazine), If'', ''Amazing Stories'', ''Science Fiction Quarterly'', ''Startling Stories'', ''Cosmos'', ''Orbit'', ''Astounding'' and ''Planet Stories''. The 1990 Citadel collection ''We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (collection), We Can Remember It for You Wholesale'' is identical except that it has "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" instead of "Second Variety". Contents * Introduction, by Norman Spinrad * "The Cookie Lady (short story), The Cookie Lady" * "Beyond the Door (short story), Beyond the Doo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Collected Stories Of Philip K
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
