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ISBN. 978-0-356-50015-7. The Girl with All the Gifts is a science fiction book by M. R. Carey, published in June 2014 by Orbit Books. It is based on his 2013 Edgar Award -nominated short story Iphigenia In Aulis and was written concurrently with the screenplay for the 2016 film. It deals with a dystopian future in which most of humanity is ...
In human nutrition, empty calories are those calories found in foods and beverages (including alcohol) [1] composed primarily or solely of calorie-rich macronutrients such as sugars and fats, but little or no micronutrients, fibre, or protein. [2] Foods composed mostly of empty calories have low nutrient density, meaning few other nutrients ...
Cyrano de Bergerac, one of the earliest SF writers, ca. 1654. John Birmingham, 2009. Ray Bradbury, 1975. Lois McMaster Bujold, 2009. Edgar Rice Burroughs, c. 1920. Octavia Butler, 2005. Richard Bachman (pseudonym of Stephen King) Paolo Bacigalupi (born 1972) Hilary Bailey (1936–2017)
Hungary. Metropolis Media. Printed sci-fi and fantasy magazine with mainstream influence in Hungarian literature; despite the relatively small language market, at its peak was one of the top-selling SF magazines worldwide. Printed. Galaxy Science Fiction. 1951. 1980–1995. United States. H.P. Gold and World Editions.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Paolo Tadini Bacigalupi (born August 6, 1972) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, [1] John W. Campbell Memorial, Compton Crook, Theodore Sturgeon, and Michael L. Printz awards, and has been nominated for the National Book Award. His fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ...
The Encyclopedia of science fiction. New York: St. Martin's Griffin. D'Ammassa, D. (2004). Encyclopedia of science fiction. N.Y., Facts On File. H. Bruce Franklin (1988), War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination, about war as a theme in US imaginative fiction. James, E. and F. Mendlesohn (2003). The Cambridge companion to science ...
This is not intended to be a list of every American (born U.S. citizen, naturalized citizen, or long-time resident alien) who has published a novel. (For the purposes of this article, novel is defined as an extended work of fiction. This definition is loosely interpreted to include novellas, novelettes, and books of interconnected short stories.)