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Un-Man
"Un-Man" is a science fiction novella by American writer Poul Anderson, first published in the January 1953 issue of '' Astounding Science Fiction''. It was included in the 1962 collection ''Un-Man and Other Novellas'', and the 1981 collection ''The Psychotechnic League''. As a component of the Psychotechnic League future history, "Un-Man" takes place in the year 2004, between "Marius" and "The Sensitive Man". Plot summary The story is set at a time after a devastating World War III in 1958, with the world gradually recovering from the devastation. (Chicago is mentioned as having been totally destroyed and there is no intention of rebuilding it; rather, the plan is to totally raze the ruins and use the land for agriculture - pending which, the vast abandoned ruins are being used for all kinds of nefarious activities). The United Nations, re-founded after the war and much stronger than in its earlier incarnation, is in the process of making itself a true World Government. Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Psychotechnic League
The Psychotechnic League is a future history created by American science fiction writer Poul Anderson. The name "Psychotechnic League" was invented by Sandra Miesel during the early 1980s, to capitalize on Anderson's better-known Polesotechnic League future history. Anderson published 21 novels, novellas and short stories set in this future between 1949 and 1957, with a 22nd published in 1968. Anderson did not write the stories in chronological order. He included a series timeline in the Winter 1955 issue of'' Startling Stories ''to accompany the novella "The Snows of Ganymede". By the late 1950s, Anderson's political beliefs had altered to the extent that he was uncomfortable with the political philosophy implied by the series, and he abandoned it. In particular, he had reversed his earlier strong endorsement for the United Nations as the basis of a world government, an opinion which was the main plot element of several earlier stories in the series. Psychotechnic League futu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychotechnic League
The Psychotechnic League is a future history created by American science fiction writer Poul Anderson. The name "Psychotechnic League" was invented by Sandra Miesel during the early 1980s, to capitalize on Anderson's better-known Polesotechnic League future history. Anderson published 21 novels, novellas and short stories set in this future between 1949 and 1957, with a 22nd published in 1968. Anderson did not write the stories in chronological order. He included a series timeline in the Winter 1955 issue of'' Startling Stories ''to accompany the novella "The Snows of Ganymede". By the late 1950s, Anderson's political beliefs had altered to the extent that he was uncomfortable with the political philosophy implied by the series, and he abandoned it. In particular, he had reversed his earlier strong endorsement for the United Nations as the basis of a world government, an opinion which was the main plot element of several earlier stories in the series. Psychotechnic League fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marius (Anderson)
'"Marius" is a science fiction short story by American writer Poul Anderson, first published in the March 1957 issue of ''Astounding Science Fiction'' and reprinted in the collections ''The Horn of Time'' (1968) and ''The Psychotechnic League'' (1981). As a component of the Psychotechnic League future history / alternate history, "Marius" takes place in 1964, six years after the initial nuclear exchanges of World War III. Although it is chronologically the first story in the Psychotechnic League sequence, "Marius" was one of the last to be written. It serves as a prequel to the earlier novella "Un-Man", introducing the character of Étienne Fourre. Plot summary In 1964, General Étienne Fourre, once a village apothecary, is the leader of the French Maquisard Brotherhood and serves as France's representative in the Supreme Council of United Free Europe. He is on his way to confront his friend Commandant Jacques Reinach, the chairman of the Supreme Council. Fourre has studied psy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sensitive Man
"The Sensitive Man" is a science fiction novella by American writer Poul Anderson, first published in the January 1954 issue of ''Fantastic Universe'' and reprinted in the 1981 collection ''The Psychotechnic League''. The story is a component of the Psychotechnic League future history, and takes place in the year 2009, between "Un-Man" and "The Big Rain". Plot summary Michael Tighe of the Psychotechnic Institute has been kidnapped by Thomas Bancroft, a politician with ties to an authoritarian movement called the Actionists. Tighe's adopted son, Simon Delgatty, sets out to find him, but is himself captured by Bancroft and taken to his base on an island off the coast of Mexico. In the course of raising Delgatty, Tighe has trained him to exert conscious control over what are normally subconscious and autonomic brain functions. This allows Delgatty to speed up or slow down his metabolism at will, and also allows him to tell what other people are thinking by listening to them subv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Award For Best Novella
The Hugo Award for Best Novella 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 novella award is available for works of fiction of between 17,500 and 40,000 words; awards are also given out in the short story, novelette 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 Novella has been awarded annually since 1968. In addition to the regular Hugo awards, beginning in 1996 Retrospective Hugo Awards, or "Retro Hugos", have been available to be awarded for years 50, 75, or 100 years prior in which no awards were given. Retro Hugos may only be awarded for years after 1939 in which no awards were originally given. To date, Retro Hugo awards have been given for novellas for 1939, 1941, 1943–1946, 1951, and 1954. During the 63 nomination ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locus (magazine)
''Locus: The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field'', founded in 1968, is an American magazine published monthly in Oakland, California. It is the news organ and trade journal for the English-language science fiction and fantasy fields. It also publishes comprehensive listings of all new books published in the genres (excluding self-published). The magazine also presents the annual Locus Awards. ''Locus Online'' was launched in April 1997, as a semi-autonomous web version of ''Locus Magazine''. History Charles N. Brown, Ed Meskys, and Dave Vanderwerf founded ''Locus'' in 1968 as a news fanzine to promote the (ultimately successful) bid to host the 1971 World Science Fiction Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. Originally intended to run only until the site-selection vote was taken at St. Louiscon, the 1969 Worldcon in St. Louis, Missouri, Brown decided to continue publishing ''Locus'' as a mimeographed general science fiction and fantasy newszine. ''Locus'' succeede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Leeper
Evelyn C. Leeper (a.k.a. Evelyn Chimelis; born 1950), is an American writer, critic, and active member of science fiction fandom. She was a member and officer of the UMass Science Fiction Society from 1968 to 1972. In 1978 she and her husband Mark R. Leeper founded the Science Fiction Club at Bell Labs. She and Mark have been Fan Guests of Honor at Novacon (1973, Michigan); Covert Contraption (1989, Michigan); and Windycon XXIX (2002, Chicago). She and Mark have co-edited/co-published their weekly fanzine (the ''MT VOID'') since 1978. As of October 15, 2021, it has had 2194 issues. She was one of the judges of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History from 1995 to 2014 and a contributor to Uchronia: The Alternate History List. She was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer twelve times (1990–2001), losing on each occasion to David Langford David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953) is a British author, editor, and critic, largely active within the science fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privative
A privative, named from Latin language, Latin ''wikt:privare, privare'', "to deprive", is a particle (grammar), particle that negates or inverts the semantics, value of the root word, stem of the word. In Indo-European languages many privatives are prefix (linguistics), prefixes; but they can also be suffixes, or more independent elements. Privative prefixes In English language, English there are three primary privative prefixes, all cognate from Proto-Indo-European: *'':wikt:un-#Etymology 1, un-'' from West Germanic languages, West Germanic, from Proto-Germanic; e.g. ''un''precedented, ''un''believable *'':wikt:in-, in-'' from Latin language, Latin; e.g. ''in''capable, ''in''articulate. *'':wikt:a-#Etymology 5, a-'', called alpha privative, from Ancient Greek '':wikt:ἀ-, '', '':wikt:ἀν-, '', from Proto-Hellenic *ə-; e.g. ''a''pathetic, ''a''biogenesis. These all stem from a Proto-Indo-European language, PIE syllabic nasal privative *''n̥-'', the zero Indo-European ablaut, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American fantasy and science fiction author who was active from the 1940s until the 21st century. Anderson wrote also historical novels. His awards include seven Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. Biography Poul Anderson was born on November 25, 1926, in Bristol, Pennsylvania to Scandinavian parents. Soon after his birth, his father, Anton Anderson relocated the family to Texas, where they lived for more than ten years. After Anton Anderson's death, his widow took the children to Denmark. The family returned to the United States after the beginning of World War II, settling eventually on a Minnesota farm. While he was an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota, Anderson's first stories were published by editor John W. Campbell in the magazine ''Astounding Science Fiction'': "Tomorrow's Children" by Anderson and F. N. Waldrop in March 1947 and a sequel, "Chain of Logic" by Anderson alone, in July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury (planet), Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Mars (mythology), Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere (less than 1% that of Earth's), and has a crust primarily composed of elements similar to Earth's crust, as well as a core made of iron and nickel. Mars has surface features such as impact craters, valleys, dunes and polar ice caps. It has two small and irregularly shaped moons, Phobos (moon), Phobos and Deimos (moon), Deimos. Some of the most notable surface features on Mars include Olympus Mons, the largest volcano and List of tallest mountains in the Solar System, highest known mountain in the Solar System and Valles Marineris, one of the largest canyons in the Solar System. The North Polar Basin (Mars), Borealis basin in the Northern Hemisphere covers approximately 40% of the planet and may be a la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1953 Short Stories
Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia. ** The Central Intelligence Agency, CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel first meets to discuss the Unidentified flying object, UFO phenomenon. * January 15 – Georg Dertinger, foreign minister of East Germany, is arrested for spying. * January 19 – 71.1% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'', to watch Lucy give birth to Little Ricky, which is more people than those who tune into Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. This record has yet to be broken. * January 20 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is First inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower, sworn in as the 34th President of the United States. * January 24 ** Mau Mau Upr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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