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A community portal about Science fiction with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Science fiction is a popular genre of fiction in which the narrative world differs from our own present or historical reality in at... [more]
A community portal about Science fiction with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Science fiction is a popular genre of fiction in which the narrative world differs from our own present or historical reality in at least one significant way. This difference may be technological, physical, historical, sociological, philosophical, metaphysical, etc, but not magical. Exploring the consequences of such differences is the traditional purpose of science fiction, but there are also many science-fiction works in which an exotically alien setting is superimposed upon what would not otherwise be a science-fiction tale. It is commonly used to refer to fictional worlds more technologically advanced than present-day earth.
Barence writes "Science fiction has long inspired real-world technology, but are the authors of sci-fi stories finally running out of steam? PC Pro has traced the history of sci-fi's influence on real-world technology, from Jules Verne to Snow Crash, but suggests that writers have run out of ideas when it comes to inspiring tomorrow's products. 'Since Snow Crash, no novel has had quite the same impact on the computing world, and you might...
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We are extending our Sci Fi Writing Contest by one week. Up for grabs is a brand new Amazon Kindle, a truly great device for people who read books, blogs, newspapers and magazines. So far we received only a few entries, compared to the 16 serious challengers we had this time last year, even though our readership is way up. So if you are a writer with a knack for science fiction, write a short interesting story involving the future of medicine...
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From medgadget.com
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Wired.com readers speak up for great science fiction movies — some mind-bending classics, others amazingly funny — that failed to make the cut when we put together our list of favorites. Tron, The Terminator and some surprising picks get their day in the sun.
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San Francisco, CA, November 17, 2009 – Red Giant Software has released Holomatrix, a new After Effects plug-in that lets you control your reality and offers a new dimension in effect generation. Many science fiction feature films and TV shows feature holographic communication and interfaces. Red Giant [...]
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From blog.digitalcontentproducer.com
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NASHUA – A Milford man who owes nearly $8 million to various creditors will avoid jail time on theft charges stemming from a series of science fiction conventions that he pretended to have organized, court records show.
Shane Senter, 37, of 96 Powers St., Unit 187, Milford, had been scheduled to stand trial this week in Hillsborough County Superior Court on felony theft charges, and four misdemeanor counts of unfair or deceptive business...
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