You may already know this — in fact, if you are any kind of SF fan, I know you know this — but Arthur C. Clarke has passed away. He was 90 years old. That’s how old my maternal grandpa was when he died.
I’m not sure why I made that connection, but I did. This [...]
Posts under ‘General Concepts’
Thoughts Provoked by A.C.Clarke’s Death
The Future Is Now
I think I talked about this before, but a lot of what was once far-out science fiction is common place today. Yes, we’re not all driving flying cars and we don’t have colonies on the Moon or Mars, but there is still much about life today that was pure imagination yesterday.
Here are some articles I [...]
A Link Between Future Thinking and Science Fiction
I recently read Mike Treder’s Aug. 14, 2007, post at ieet.org about “Post-Millennial Malaise in SF?” and it got me to thinking about the link between future thinking and science fiction.
I can’t remember if I mentioned this before, but there is a pretty good theory about the rise of science fiction that says science fiction [...]
What is Alternate History?
Guest Writer: Sunil Tanna
Alternate histories are stories or scenarios which consider the question of what if the events of the past had turned out differently. For example, what if the Confederacy had won the American Civil War, what if the Germans had won World War II, what if Al Gore had won the 2000 US [...]
The Great SF Debate
Back in 1941, Robert A. Heinlein proposed the initials “SF,” which at the time was a common abbreviation for “science fiction.” But he had another idea. He felt it should stand for the broader term “speculative fiction.” To this day, there are passionate debates about which term to use.
Is is all semantics? Here’s what I [...]
