Both of Asher's parents are educators and science fiction fans. Although he began writing speculative fiction in secondary school, Asher did not turn seriously to writing until he was 25. He worked as ...
The book, written during the final period of World War II, takes places at an undetermined year "after the end of the war".Mark Studdock is a young academic who has just become a Senior Fellow in soci ...
Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, on 29 November 1898. His father was Albert James Lewis (1863–1929), a solicitor whose father, Richard, had come to Ireland from Wales during the mid- ...
Trurl and Klapaucius are brilliant (robotic) engineers, called "constructors" (because they can construct practically anything at will), capable of almost God-like exploits. For instance, on one occas ...
Lem was born in 1921 in Lwów, Poland (now Ukraine). He was the son of Sabina Woller (1892–1979) and Samuel Lem (1879–1954), a wealthy laryngologist and former physician in the Austro-Hungarian Army ...
The novel is divided into three parts, following a third-person omniscient narrative with no main character.Earth and the Overlords In the late 20th century, the United States and the Soviet Union are ...
Contents "Introduction" (the initial portion of the framing story or linking text)"Robbie""Runaround""Reason""Catch that Rabbit""Liar!""Little Lost Robot""Escape!""Eviden
Asimov was born between October 4, 1919 and January 2, 1920 in Petrovichi in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (to the south-west from Smolensk) to Anna Rachel (Berman) Asimov and Judah ...
Slans are evolved humans, named after their alleged creator, Samuel Lann. They have the psychic abilities to read minds and are super-intelligent. They possess near limitless stamina, "nerves of steel ...
Van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada. Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the ...
Novels featuring Lazarus include:Methuselah's Children (1941) (serialized magazine version)Methuselah's Children (1958) (rewritten novel version)Time Enough for Love (1973)The Number of the Beast (198 ...
Heinlein was born on July 7, 1907 to Rex Ivar Heinlein (an accountant) and Bam Lyle Heinlein, in Butler, Missouri. His childhood was spent in Kansas City, Missouri. The outlook and values of this time ...
One leading influence on the creation of the Golden age was John W. Campbell, who became legendary in the genre as an editor and publisher of science fiction magazines, including Astounding Science Fi ...
Biological engineering is a science-based discipline founded upon the biological sciences in the same way that chemical engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering can be based upo ...
Dystopia represents a counterpart of utopia, a term originally coined by Thomas More in his book of that title completed in 1516. "Utopia" is derived from the Greek words eu (ευ), "good", ou (ο?), ...
