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  • Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction is a website created by lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower that traces the origin of terms in science fiction literature...
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    Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts...
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  • Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 311. Langford, David (2005). "Uplift". The Greenwood encyclopedia of...
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    Mundane science fiction (MSF) is a niche literary movement within science fiction that developed in the early 2000s, with principles codified by the "Mundane...
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    A science-fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of science-fiction fandom, from the 1930s to the present day...
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    According to the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, the earliest known use of the word "hyper-drive" comes from a preview of Murray Leinster's...
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    Soft science fiction, or soft SF, is a category of science fiction with two different definitions, in contrast to hard science fiction. It explores the...
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  • Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction is a book published in 2007 by the Oxford University Press. It was edited by Jeff Prucher, with...
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    pulp era of science fiction. Stars themselves are rarely a point of focus in fiction, their most common role being an indirect one as hosts of planetary...
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    works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. Trends in the planet's portrayal have largely been influenced by advances in planetary science. It became...
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    IGN. Retrieved 3 June 2011. Stableford, Brian (2004). Historical dictionary of science fiction literature. Scarecrow Press. p. 310. ISBN 0-8108-4938-0...
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    overview of and topical guide to science fiction: Science fiction – a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology...
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    etc.?". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Archived from the original on 19 March 2009. Cuddon, J. A., The Penguin Dictionary of Literary...
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  • Retrieved 2023-09-05. Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction. (2020, December 16). Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction: datasphere. https://sfdictionary...
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    Jesse Sheidlower (category Alumni of the University of Cambridge)
    adaptation of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, and in January 2021, he launched the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, a website tracing...
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    his magazine Science Wonder Stories. "Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction: Science fiction". Bleiler, Everett F. (1990). Science-Fiction, The Early...
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    words of science fiction author Stephen L. Gillett. The planet was often depicted as warmer than Earth but still habitable by humans. Depictions of Venus...
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    (1925–)". Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction in Literature. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-8108-7884-6. One important series of interrelated...
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    Non-fiction typically aims to present topics objectively based on historical, scientific, and empirical information. However, some non-fiction ranges...
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    genre includes, but is not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, magical realism, superhero fiction, alternate history, utopia and dystopia...
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