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Isaac Asimov's Robots And Aliens
Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens is a series of science fiction novels written by various authors and loosely connected to Isaac Asimov's ''Robot'' series. It was originally published by Ace Books. The plot deals with the Three Laws and encounters between robots and different varieties of alien life. :# ''Changeling'' by Stephen Leigh (1989) :# '' Renegade'' by Cordell Scotten (1989) :# '' Intruder'' by Robert Thurston (1990) :# ''Alliance'' by Jerry Oltion (1990) :# '' Maverick'' by Bruce Bethke (1990) :# '' Humanity'' by Jerry Oltion Jerry Oltion (born 1957) is an American science fiction author from Eugene, Oregon, known for numerous novels and short stories, including books in the ''Star Trek'' series. He is a member of the Wordos writers' group and also writes under the pe ... (1990) References External links * * Science fiction book series {{1990s-sf-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction that deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts. These concepts may include information technology and robotics, biological manipulations, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, and extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life. The genre often explores human responses to the consequences of projected or imagined scientific advances. Science fiction is related to fantasy (together abbreviated wikt:SF&F, SF&F), Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction, and it contains many #Subgenres, subgenres. The genre's precise Definitions of science fiction, definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Major subgenres include hard science fiction, ''hard'' science fiction, which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction, ''soft'' science fiction, which focuses on social sciences. Other no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renegade
Renegade or The Renegade may refer to: Aircraft *Lake Renegade, an American amphibious aircraft design * Murphy Renegade, a Canadian ultralight biplane design * Southern Aeronautical Renegade, an American racing aircraft design Games *'' Command & Conquer: Renegade'', a 2002 first-person shooter video game * ''Renegade'' (video game), a 1986 video game *''Renegade Legion'', a 1990 board game series **'' Renegade: The Battle for Jacob's Star'', a video game based on Renegade Legion * Renegade Software, a games publisher of the 1990s *'' Jak II: Renegade'', the second game in the Jak and Daxter series *Renegade points, a type of scoring/level system in the game series ''Mass Effect'' Literature *''Renegade'', a 1989 novel by Cordell Scotten in the ''Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens'' series * "The Renegade" (short story), a 1957 short story by Albert Camus * "The Renegade" (poem), a poem by David Diop Music * Renegade (band), an American rock band, also referred to througho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Bethke
Bruce Bethke (born 1955) is an American author best known for his 1983 short story "Cyberpunk" which led to the widespread use of the term for the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. His novel, '' Headcrash'', won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1995 for SF original paperback published in the US. Bethke's collected thoughts on the cyberpunk subculture are available on his website, in an essay entitled "The Etymology of Cyberpunk". Bethke served as a judge on the Philip K. Dick Award in 2013. Life Bethke lives in Minnesota where he works as a developer of supercomputer software. Bibliography * ''Maverick'': Written from an outline by Isaac Asimov in 1990, this novel was one of a series of novels set in Asimov's ''Robot'' universe. * ''Headcrash'': Bethke's first published novel, published in 1995. ''Headcrash'' is the story of Jack Burroughs, a computer nerd in his mid twenties, who lives with his overbearing mother, and works a dead-end job at a software firm. Jack lives a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maverick
Maverick or Maveric may refer to: History * Maverick (animal), an unbranded range animal, derived from U.S. cattleman Samuel Maverick Aviation * AEA Maverick, an Australian single-seat sportsplane design * General Aviation Design Bureau T-32 Maverick, a Ukrainian ultralight trike design * I-Fly Maverick, a US powered-parachute flying vehicle under development by the Indigenous People's Technology and Education Center * Murphy Maverick, a Canadian light aircraft design * AGM-65 Maverick, a US guided air-to-surface missile * Airbus MAVERIC, a European sub-scale blended wing body prototype Computing * Maverick Framework, a model-view-controller framework for Java * Maverick Meerkat, the version 10.10 of Ubuntu * OS X Mavericks, the tenth major release of Apple's OS X operating system Film and television * ''The Maverick'', a 1952 Western film starring Wild Bill Elliott * ''Maverick'' (TV series), an American western series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly ** ''Maverick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Oltion
Jerry Oltion (born 1957) is an American science fiction author from Eugene, Oregon, known for numerous novels and short stories, including books in the ''Star Trek'' series. He is a member of the Wordos writers' group and also writes under the pen name "Ryan Hughes." Writing career His novels include ''Frame of Reference (novel), Frame of Reference'' (1987), ''Abandon in Place'' (2000), ''The Getaway Special'' (2001), ''Paradise Passed'' (2004), and ''Anywhere but Here (Jerry Oltion novel), Anywhere but Here'' (2005). His work has been compiled in the collections, ''Love Songs of a Mad Scientist: The Collected Stories of Jerry Oltion Volume One'' (1993), ''Singing in the Rain, The Collected Stories of Jerry Oltion Volume Two'' (1998), and ''Twenty Questions'' (2003). He contributed to ''Isaac Asimov's Robot City'' series with the books ''Alliance'' and ''Humanity'' (both in 1990). His work can also be found in numerous anthologies, such as ''Quest to Riverworld'' (1993) and ''Tal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alliance
An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not an explicit agreement has been worked out among them. Members of an alliance are called allies. Alliances form in many settings, including political alliances, military alliances, and business alliances. When the term is used in the context of war or armed struggle, such associations may also be called allied powers, especially when discussing World War I or World War II. A formal military alliance is not required to be perceived as an ally—co-belligerence, fighting alongside someone, is enough. According to this usage, allies become so not when concluding an alliance treaty but when struck by war. When spelled with a capital "A", "Allies" usually denotes the countries who fought together against the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire) in World War; I (the Allies of World War&nbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Thurston (novelist)
Robert Thurston (28 October 1936 – 20 October 2021) was a science fiction author well known for his works in popular shared world settings. Career Thurston attended the Clarion Workshop at Clarion State College, Pennsylvania in 1968, instructed by several major sci-fi writers (Kate Wilhelm, Damon Knight, Fritz Leiber, and Harlan Ellison, among others). He did graduate studies in English literature at the University of Buffalo and was a veteran of the United States Army. He was awarded first prize for his short story "Set of Wheels," which was included, with two other short stories ("Anaconda" and "The Last Desperate Hour") in the anthology ''Clarion'', edited by the workshop's founder, Robin Scott Wilson, in 1971. FASA signed an agreement with Roc Publishing in 1991 that lasted for 10 years and started a long line of publication with Robert Thurston's ''Legend of the Jade Phoenix'' series for ''Battletech'' (1991). Thurston is best known for his Clan Jade Falcon novels of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intruder
Intruder may refer to: Film and television Film * ''The Intruder'' (1914 film), directed by Wallace Reid * ''The Intruder'' (1933 film), an American film by Albert Ray * ''The Intruder'' (1939 film), ''La intrusa'', an Argentine film by Julio Saraceni * ''The Intruder'' (1944 film), a 1944 Mexican film starring Carlos Orellana * ''The Intruder'' (1953 film), a British post-war drama by Guy Hamilton * ''The Intruder'' (1956 film), an Italian melodrama by Raffaello Matarazzo * ''The Intruder'' (1962 film), an American racial segregation drama by Roger Corman * ''The Intruder'' (1975 film), an American horror film * ''The Intruder'' (1986 film), ''Pembalasan Rambu'', an Indonesian action film by Jopi Burnama * ''Intruder'' (1989 film), an American horror film by Scott Spiegel * ''Intruder'' (1993 film), ''Intruso'', a Spanish psychological thriller by Vicente Aranda * ''The Intruder'' (1994 film), an Australian psychological drama by Richard Wolstencroft * ''Intruder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordell Scotten
Cordell may refer to: * Cordell (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name and surname ** Cordell baronets, a title in the Baronetage of England * Cordell, Kentucky, a community in the U.S. * New Cordell, Oklahoma, commonly called Cordell, a community in the U.S. * "Cordell", a song by The Cranberries from the 1996 album ''To the Faithful Departed'' * Cordell Formation, a geologic formation in Michigan, U.S. * Cordell, Michigan, an unincorporated community See also * Cordell & Cordell, an American law firm * Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, off the coast of California, U.S. * Cordell–Lorenz Observatory Cordell–Lorenz Observatory (850) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Sewanee:The University of the South. It is located in Sewanee, Tennessee, United States. The Observatory has an 1897 vintage 6 inch Alvan Clark refr ..., in Sewanee, Tennessee, U.S. * Cordelle, a place in France {{Disambiguation, g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Leigh
Stephen W. Leigh (born February 27, 1951) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer, artist, and musician. He also works as a lecturer at Northern Kentucky University, teaching creative writing. He has published speculative fiction as Stephen Leigh, as S. L. Farrell, and once as Matthew Farrell. Steve Leigh was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and lives there. He plays guitar and sings in a band named Toast. Recognition Leigh's novel ''Dark Water's Embrace'' won the Spectrum Award in 1999 and was on the long list for the James Tiptree Jr. Award that year. ''Speaking Stones'' also made the long list for the Tiptree Award. His first novel, ''Slow Fall to Dawn'', was in the Top Ten for the Locus Award for Best First Novel. As Guest of Honor at Bubonicon 43 Leigh was interviewed for MTV Geek Coverage about working on the Wild Cards series.Geek: Event Coverage > Stephen Leigh , Bubonicon 43 ''MTV Geek''. MTV. A special one-shot convention was held in his honor in Minneapol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term ''romance''. Such romances should not be confused with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Changeling
A changeling, also historically referred to as an auf or oaf, is a human-like creature found throughout much of European folklore. According to folklore, a changeling was a substitute left by a supernatural being when kidnapping a human being. Sometimes the changeling was a "stock" (a piece of wood made magically to resemble the kidnapped human), more often the changeling was a supernatural being made magically to look like the kidnapped human. Supernatural beings blamed for stealing children included fairies, demons, trolls, nereids and many others. Usually, the kidnapped human was a child; but there were cases, particularly in Scandinavia and Ireland, where adults were taken. Some modern scholars have argued these stories of replaced children originated as folklore explanations for autism or other developmental conditions. Description A changeling is typically identifiable via several traits, which vary from culture to culture. In Irish legend, a fairy child may appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
