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David Gerrold's War Against the Chtorr

by Daniel Greenfield

David Gerrold has had a long history of reworking materials and themes from Grandmaster and prominent Science Fiction writer Robert Anson Heinlein. David Gerrold's famous Star Trek episode, "The Trouble With... published 14 months ago

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Societies of the Future, Utopia, Dystopia or Sparta

by Daniel Greenfield

Science Fiction is often an expression of humanity's attempt to peer into the future, to foresee what is to come and imagine what the world, and also to better understand our own society and culture by looking... published 13 months ago

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Star Trek Romulans as Rihannsu

by Daniel Greenfield

The greatest changes to the Star Trek universe occurred in between the original classic "Star Trek" series (TOS) and its relaunch with "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (TNG). The classic races which had... published 13 months ago

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Footprints of Thunder - James F. David - Return of the Dinosaurs

by Daniel Greenfield

Footprints of Thunder by James F. David is essentially an exercise in hitting the Monster Button. What do I mean by hitting the Monster Button?Back during the golden age of computer games when games came on... published 11 months ago

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Ray Bradbury bids Farewell Summer in the sequel to Dandelion Wine

by Daniel Greenfield

In American literature, no one has quite defined magic realism so much as Ray Bradbury. For American readers, Ray Bradbury's books, his collections of short stories, his collections of short stories adapted... published 10 months ago

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The Five Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time

by Daniel Greenfield

Before Science Fiction entered the cinemas or the comic books or the radio plays, Science Fiction began as literature, as stories and books of adventures on other planets, in other times and even other... published 9 months ago

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Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor

by Daniel Greenfield

Primarily centered around Harlan Ellison's famous Hugo award winning short story, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor, published by Dark Horse Comics and illustrated by a variety... published 12 months ago

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Greg Egan and a Quarantine for Earth

by Daniel Greenfield

Nick Stavrianos is a Private Investigator who has been hired to find a woman who walked through a wall. Laura is a mentally defective patient in a private institution who one day just disappeared. After a... published 11 months ago

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Starship Troopers and the Forever War

by Daniel Greenfield

In some ways it would seem as if Robert Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" and Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War" should be very similar novels. Both after all are novels about humanity's war against an alien race... published 13 months ago

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Empty Cities of the Full Moon - A Post-Apocalyptic Shapeshifting Journey

by Daniel Greenfield

Howard V. Hendrix's "Empty Cities of the Full Moon" mixes speculation on the borders of new age ideas about shamanism and human nature with good old\new fashioned Science Fiction premises that include... published 13 months ago

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