The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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Welcome to the Third Edition of the Encyclopedia ofScience Fiction, edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls (emeritus) and Graham Sleight (managing). All the morethan 18,000 entries are free to read online; samples appear below.Click here forthe Introduction and more on the text; here for FrequentlyAsked Questions; here forAdvice to Students on citations. Find entriesvia the search box above (more onsearching here) or browse the menu categories to the right ofthe SFE logo. To see what links to the current entry andto identify contributors' initials, click the Incoming /Citation button at the top of the entry. June 18, 2014 Ka-Zar Tagged: PublicationCharacter US Pulp Magazine. Three issues, October 1936, January 1937 and June 1937, published by Manvis Publications; no editor named. The last issue was titled Ka-Zar the Great.Ka-Zar begins as a small boy, the sole survivor of a plane crash in Africa that kills his parents. He is raised by lions and becomes a character along the lines of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli or Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan in his introductory adventure "King of Fang and Claw" (October 1936) by Bob Byrd, issued in book form as Ka-Zar, King of Fang and Claw (1937). The character was resuscitated by Marvel Comics in the 1960s, featuring in their Strange Tales series. The October 1936 launch issue of the magazine was reprinted as a... Read more about Ka-Zar August 10, 2018 Arnett, Jack Tagged: AuthorHouse name House Name, initially a pseudonym of Mike McQuay, used for the Bantam Book of Justice action-adventure series with intermittent sf content, opening with The Book of Justice #1: Genocide Express (1989). Apparently McQuay wrote one volume (not necessarily the first to appear) and farmed out the rest to others; John J Miller has claimed responsibility for The Book of Justice #3: Death Force (1990). [DRL]worksseriesBook of Justice The Book of Justice #1: Genocide Express (New York: Bantam Books, 1989) [Book of Justice: pb/] The Book of Justice #2: Zaitech Sting (New York: Bantam Books, 1990) [Book of Justice: pb/George Tsui] The Book of Justice #3: Death Force (New York: Bantam Books, 1990) b... Read more about Arnett, Jack June 24, 2020 Portugal Tagged: International Inspired by literary trends of the period, Portuguese Proto-Sf novels in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depicted future or remote Utopian societies that are visited and discussed at length by travelers from the present world and time. Great care is given to the shifts in world order and morality and less to scientific achievements, including the modes of Transportation to those far-away lands. Protagonists travel in time through the simple method of deep-sleep (see Sleeper Awakes), as in O Que Há-de Ser o Mundo No Ano 3000 ["What the World Will Be in the Year 3000"] (1859-1860), a loosely-translated version of Émile Souvestre's Le Monde Tel Qu'il Sera to which the translat... Read more about Portugal January 09, 2016 Online Newszines Tagged: PublicationTheme Most current sf print Newszines (which see) have an associated online news presence in blog or website form. Below is a selection, culled from the Ansible links page, of exclusively online sf news outlets. Some also carry reviews, interviews and other nonfiction content. [DRL]see also: Online SF Resources. Blastr (was Sci Fi Wire) Concatenation io9 (see also Charlie Jane Anders) SciFiNow SF Crowsnest SFscope SF Signal SF Site News Diary SFWA News (see also SFWA)... Read more about Online Newszines SFE Blog The SFE at Loncon 3 We passed a couple of major milestones on 1st August: the SFE is now over 4.5 million words, of which John Clute s own contribution has now exceeded 2 million. (For comparison, the 1993 second edition was 1.3 million words, and Continue reading 10,000 We ve reached a couple of milestones recently. The SFE gallery of book covers now has more than 10,000 images: this one seemed appropriate for the 10,000th. Our series of slideshows of thematically linked covers has continued to grow, and Darren Nash of Continue reading The Gallery We ve been talking for a while about new features to add to the SFE, and another one has gone live today: the Gallery, which collects together covers for sf books and links them back to SFE entries. To quote from Continue reading Website design and build: STEEL Site 2011 Gollancz, SFE content 2011 SFE Ltd.

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Welcome to the third edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive, scholarly, and critical guide to science fiction in all its forms.

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