"Fahrenheit 451 (video game) Fahrenheit 451 is a computer strategy game released in 1984 based on the novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury. Originally released by software company Trillium, it was re-released in 1985 under the company’s new name Telarium. The player's goal is to help Guy Montag, the main character from the novel, to evade the authorities and make contact with an underground movement. Bradbury contributed to the game, by writing the prologue and responses of the game's intelligent computer ""Ray"". The plot and text of the game was written by Len Neufeld (known for his previous"
"the United States eleven months after the death of Roddenberry, the first broadcast was a dedication to two ""science fiction pioneers"": Isaac Asimov and Roddenberry. His impact on popular culture in the previous thirty years was said to be eclipsed only by that of Elvis Presley. Japanese astrophysicist Yoji Kondo proposed naming a crater on Mars after Roddenberry in 1994. This was supported by Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke, and was agreed to by the International Astronomical Union. The Roddenberry crater is located at Martian latitude −49.9 degrees and longitude 4.5 degrees. He has also had an asteroid named"
"Mars Diaries The Mars Diaries is a science fiction series for young adults by the best-selling author, Sigmund Brouwer, published by Tyndale House Publishers in 2000 - 2002. Set in an experimental community on Mars in the year 2039, the Mars Diaries feature fourteen-year-old virtual reality specialist Tyce Sanders. It was re-published by Tyndale House Publishers in 2009 and 2012 as a 5 volume series titled ""Robot Wars"". Tyce Sanders: The first person ever born on Mars, Tyce's legs are paralyzed because of an experimental surgery when he was one Earth year old, the same surgery that allows him to"
"Libertarian Futurist Society has honored five of Heinlein's novels and two short stories with their Hall of Fame award. The first two were given during his lifetime for ""The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"" and ""Stranger in a Strange Land"". Five more were awarded posthumously for ""Red Planet"", ""Methuselah's Children"", ""Time Enough for Love"", and the short stories ""Requiem"" and ""Coventry"". Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein (; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science-fiction writer. Often called the ""dean of science fiction writers"", he wrote sometimes-controversial works that continue to have an influence on the"
"Guy Montag Guy Montag is a fictional character and the protagonist in Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel ""Fahrenheit 451"" (1953). He is depicted living in a futuristic town where he works as a ""fireman"" whose job is to burn books and the buildings they are found in. At the opening of the novel, he is happy in his work destroying books and never wonders about his role as a tool of thought suppression. Several events cause him to question his existence: Over the course of the novel, Montag becomes increasingly disillusioned with the hedonistic, anti-intellectual society around him. Bradbury emphasizes that"
"small press, for her Author Guest of Honorship at ConQuesT 37. Phyllis Eisenstein Phyllis Eisenstein (born February 2, 1946) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels whose work has been nominated for both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. She is an old friend of author George R. R. Martin and convinced him to include dragons in his international best-selling fantasy series ""A Song of Ice and Fire"". Martin then dedicated the third novel in the series, ""A Storm of Swords"", to Eisenstein. Eisenstein was born in 1946 in Chicago, Illinois and has lived"
"Larry Eisenberg Lawrence (Larry) Eisenberg (born December 21, 1919) is a science fiction writer. He is best known for his short story ""What Happened to Auguste Clarot?,"" published in Harlan Ellison's anthology ""Dangerous Visions"". Eisenberg's stories have also been printed in a number of leading science fiction magazines, including ""The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"", ""Galaxy Science Fiction"", and ""Asimov's Science Fiction"". His stories have been reprinted in anthologies such as ""Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century"", ""The 10th Annual of the Year’s Best S-F"", and ""Great Science Fiction By the World's Great Scientists"". He is also known"
"H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer. He was prolific in many genres, writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, including even two books on war games. He is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called a ""father of science fiction"", along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even prophetic social critic who devoted his literary talents to the development of a progressive vision on"
"Stanley G. Weinbaum Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction writer. His first story, ""A Martian Odyssey"", was published to great acclaim in July 1934, but he died from lung cancer less than a year and a half later. Weinbaum was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of Stella (née Grauman) and Nathan A. Weinbaum. His family was Jewish. He attended school in Milwaukee. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, first as a chemical engineering major but later switching to English as his major, but contrary to common belief he"
"Hall of Fame. Other Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, and short-story writer. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two non-fiction works. Three of his novels, four short story collections, and three non-fiction works were"
"from inside the dome--but who? Tyce and Ashley must find out--before the approaching fleet arrives...and wins. Mars Diaries The Mars Diaries is a science fiction series for young adults by the best-selling author, Sigmund Brouwer, published by Tyndale House Publishers in 2000 - 2002. Set in an experimental community on Mars in the year 2039, the Mars Diaries feature fourteen-year-old virtual reality specialist Tyce Sanders. It was re-published by Tyndale House Publishers in 2009 and 2012 as a 5 volume series titled ""Robot Wars"". Tyce Sanders: The first person ever born on Mars, Tyce's legs are paralyzed because of an"
"Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel ""Ender's Game"" (1985) and its sequel ""Speaker for the Dead"" (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years. A feature film adaptation of ""Ender's Game"", which Card co-produced, was released in 2013. Card is a professor of English at Southern Virginia University, has written two books on creative writing, hosts writing"
"far always in Atlanta. The 2018 event was G4G13. Martin Gardner Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He is recognized as a leading authority on Lewis Carroll. ""The Annotated Alice"", which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and was regarded as one of the most"
"his nickname ""Carrot""); a Tintinesque character. Martti Löfberg Martti Erik Hjalmar Löfberg (March 5, 1907, Helsinki - February 1969) was a successful Finnish pulp fiction author, especially in the 1930s and the 1940s. Though writing his adventure stories, science fiction and mystery novels under a long list of pseudonyms, the one he was best known for was Marton Taiga. Martti Löfbergs father was the owner of a sizeable sporting goods store, importing bicycles from Chemnitz, and the son was planned to enter the family business. However he death of his father and subsequent bankruptcy of the sporting goods store liberated"
"divisible into many fractions. It is because of the scale's redefinition that normal body temperature today is taken as 98.6 degrees, whereas it was 96 degrees on Fahrenheit's original scale. The Fahrenheit scale was the primary temperature standard for climatic, industrial and medical purposes in English-speaking countries until the 1970s, nowadays replaced by the Celsius scale long used in the rest of the world. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit FRS (; ; 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736) was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. Fahrenheit was born in Danzig/Gdańsk, a predominantly German-speaking Hanseatic city in"
"Frank Herbert Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel ""Dune"" and its five sequels. Though he became famous for his long novels, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer. The ""Dune"" saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, deals with complex themes such as human survival and evolution, ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics, and power. ""Dune"" is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time and the series is widely"
"Phyllis Eisenstein Phyllis Eisenstein (born February 2, 1946) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels whose work has been nominated for both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. She is an old friend of author George R. R. Martin and convinced him to include dragons in his international best-selling fantasy series ""A Song of Ice and Fire"". Martin then dedicated the third novel in the series, ""A Storm of Swords"", to Eisenstein. Eisenstein was born in 1946 in Chicago, Illinois and has lived there most of her life. While attending college at the University"
"particularly in the U.S; ""17 Days: The Katie Beers Story"", is about the kidnapping and child sexual abuse of Katie Beers. Arthur Herzog Arthur Herzog III (April 6, 1927 – May 26, 2010) was an American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist, well known for his works of science fiction and true crime books. He was the son of songwriter Arthur Herzog, Jr. He was married to Leslie Mandel and they had no children. His novels ""The Swarm"" and ""Orca"" have been made into films. His science fiction novel ""IQ 83"" is being made into a film by DreamWorks. Herzog was"
"Ridley Scott Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer. Following his commercial breakthrough with the science fiction horror film ""Alien"" (1979), further works include the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film ""Blade Runner"", historical drama ""Gladiator"" (which won the Academy Award for Best Picture), and science fiction film ""The Martian"". Scott's work has an atmospheric, highly concentrated visual style. Though his films range widely in setting and period, they frequently showcase memorable imagery of urban environments, whether 2nd century Rome (""Gladiator""), 12th century Jerusalem (""Kingdom of Heaven""), Medieval England (""Robin Hood""), contemporary Mogadishu (""Black"
"Martian Summer Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission is a book written by Andrew Kessler. The book documents Andrew Kessler's three-month stint in mission control of the NASA ""Phoenix"" expedition, led by Peter Smith and based at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona. The mission attempted (successfully) to locate evidence of water on Mars. Andrew Kessler is the Founder and CEO of Togather.com, an event marketing platform based in DUMBO. Formerly a Creative Director at HUGE, he co-produced ""Mars: The Quest for Life"" on the Discovery Channel"
"George R. R. Martin George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948), also known as GRRM, is an American novelist and short story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for his series of epic fantasy novels, ""A Song of Ice and Fire"", which was adapted into the HBO series ""Game of Thrones"" (2011–present). In 2005, Lev Grossman of ""Time"" called Martin ""the American Tolkien"", and in 2011, he was included on the annual ""Time"" 100 list of the most influential people in the world. George Raymond"
"J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works ""The Hobbit"", ""The Lord of the Rings"", and ""The Silmarillion"". He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1945 to 1959. He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis—they were both"
"A Martian Odyssey ""A Martian Odyssey"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Stanley G. Weinbaum originally published in the July 1934 issue of ""Wonder Stories"". It was Weinbaum's second published story (in 1933 he had sold a romantic novel, ""The Lady Dances"", to King Features Syndicate under the pseudonym Marge Stanley), and remains his best known. It was followed four months later by a sequel, ""Valley of Dreams"". These are the only stories by Weinbaum set on Mars. Early in the 21st century, nearly twenty years after the invention of atomic power and ten years after the"
"one could never quite parry<br> For when Larry had spoken<br> The mold it was broken<br> Though the topics invariably vary. Larry Eisenberg Lawrence (Larry) Eisenberg (born December 21, 1919) is a science fiction writer. He is best known for his short story ""What Happened to Auguste Clarot?,"" published in Harlan Ellison's anthology ""Dangerous Visions"". Eisenberg's stories have also been printed in a number of leading science fiction magazines, including ""The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"", ""Galaxy Science Fiction"", and ""Asimov's Science Fiction"". His stories have been reprinted in anthologies such as ""Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century"", ""The"
"Kim Stanley Robinson Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American writer of science fiction. He has published nineteen novels and numerous short stories but is best known for his ""Mars"" trilogy. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes running through them and feature scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award. Robinson's work has been labeled by ""The Atlantic"" as ""the gold-standard of realistic, and highly"
"Gene Wolfe Gene Rodman Wolfe (born May 7, 1931) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He is noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He is a prolific short-story writer and novelist and has won many science fiction and fantasy literary awards. Wolfe is most famous for ""The Book of the New Sun"" (four volumes, 1980–83), the first part of his Solar Cycle. In 1998, ""Locus"" magazine ranked it third-best fantasy novel before 1990 (after ""The Lord of the Rings"" and ""The Hobbit"") based on a poll of subscribers"
"Robert A. Heinlein Robert Anson Heinlein (; July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science-fiction writer. Often called the ""dean of science fiction writers"", he wrote sometimes-controversial works that continue to have an influence on the science-fiction genre, and on modern culture more generally. Heinlein became one of the first American science-fiction writers to break into mainstream magazines such as ""The Saturday Evening Post"" in the late 1940s. He was one of the best-selling science-fiction novelists for many decades, and he, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke are often considered the ""Big Three"" of English-language science fiction"
"Martin Gardner Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He is recognized as a leading authority on Lewis Carroll. ""The Annotated Alice"", which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and was regarded as one of the most important magicians of the twentieth century. He was considered"
"budget and in spite of warring factions and interests. The ships of the rescue service are named after people famous for their humanitarian efforts, such as Elsa Brändström, Florence Nightingale, Henri Dunant, Albert Schweitzer, Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. Between 2007 and 2015 a total of 23 adventures of the Mark Brandis series had been adapted into audio drama format and published on CD. Mark Brandis Nikolai von Michalewsky (a.k.a. Mark Brandis) (January 17, 1931 – December 27, 2000) was a German writer and journalist best known for a series of science fiction novels published between 1970 and 1987. Von"
"Bradbury's 1953 novel ""Fahrenheit 451"", a dystopian view of the future United States, drawing an analogy between the autoignition temperature of paper and the date of the September 11 attacks; one of the film's taglines was ""The Temperature at Which Freedom Burns"". The film debuted at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and received a 20-minute standing ovation, among the longest standing ovations in the festival's history. The film was also awarded the Palme d'Or, the festival's highest award. The film is the highest grossing documentary of all time. The movie begins by suggesting that friends and political allies of George"
"services to literature and philanthropy. J. K. Rowling Joanne Rowling , ( ""rolling""; born 31 July 1965), writing under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, philanthropist, film producer, television producer and screenwriter, best known for writing the ""Harry Potter"" fantasy series. The books have won multiple awards, and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history. They have also been the basis for a film series, over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films in the series. Born in"
"named in his honour, as was the asteroid . There also is a Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, an award for German-speaking as well as foreign authors of science fiction since 1981. Kurd Lasswitz Kurd Lasswitz (, ; 20 April 1848 – 17 October 1910) was a German author, scientist, and philosopher. He has been called ""the father of German science fiction"". He sometimes used the pseudonym ""Velatus"". Lasswitz studied mathematics and physics at the University of Breslau and the University of Berlin, and earned his doctorate in 1873. He spent most of his career as a teacher at the Gymnasium Ernestinum in Gotha"
"as well as by day. Other related personalities are Abraham ibn Ezra, whose the Moon crater ""Abenezra"" named after, David Gans, Judah ibn Verga, Mashallah ibn Athari an astronomer, The crater ""Messala"" on the Moon is named after him. Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist and is considered as one of the most prominent scientists in history, often regarded as the ""father of modern physics"". His revolutionary work on the relativity theory transformed theoretical physics and astronomy during the 20th century. When first published, relativity superseded a 200-year-old theory of mechanics created primarily by Isaac Newton. In the field"