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1909 In Science Fiction
The year 1909 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * February 25 : Edgar Pangborn, American writer (died 1976) Deaths Events Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels * '' Sternentau. Die Pflanze vom Neptunmond'', novel by Kurd Laßwitz. Stories collections Short stories * ''The Machine Stops'', short story by Edward Morgan Forster. Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies See also * 1909 in science * 1908 in science fiction * 1910 in science fiction The year 1910 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * December 24 : Fritz Leiber, American writer (died 1992) Deaths Events Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present ti ... References {{Reflist * science-fiction Science fiction by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imagination, imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, Parallel universes in fiction, parallel universes, extraterrestrials in fiction, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the technological singularity, singularity. Science fiction List of existing technologies predicted in science fiction, predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, Horror fiction, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many #Subgenres, sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 25
Events Pre-1600 *138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. *1336 – Four thousand defenders of Pilenai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights. 1601–1900 *1705 – George Frideric Handel's opera '' Nero'' premiered in Hamburg. *1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for his revolver firearm. *1843 – Lord George Paulet occupies the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain in the Paulet Affair (1843). *1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress. *1875 – Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency. 1901–present *1912 – Marie-Adélaï ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Pangborn
Edgar Pangborn (February 25, 1909 – February 1, 1976) was an American writer of mystery, historical, and science fiction. Biography Edgar Pangborn was born in New York City on February 25, 1909, to Harry Levi Pangborn, an attorney and dictionary editor, and Georgia Wood Pangborn, a noted writer of supernatural fiction. Along with his older sister Mary, Edgar was homeschooled until 1919 and then educated at Brooklyn Friends School. He began music studies at Harvard University in 1924, when he was still only 15 years old, and left in 1926 without graduating. After that he studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, but did not graduate from that school, either. On leaving he publicly abandoned music, shifting his creative focus to writing. His first novel, a mystery called ''A-100: A Mystery Story'', was published under the pseudonym "Bruce Harrison" in 1930. Over the next 20 years he wrote numerous stories for the pulp detective and mystery magazines, always under pse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outline Of Science Fiction
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to science fiction: Science fiction – a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting. Exploring the consequences of such innovations is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas". What is science fiction? * Definitions of science fiction: Science fiction includes such a wide range of themes and subgenres that it is notoriously difficult to define. Accordingly, there have been many definitions offered. Another challenge is that there is disagreement over where to draw the boundaries between science fiction and related genres. Science fiction is a type of: * Fiction – form of narrative which deals, in part or in whole, with events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and invented by its author(s). Although fiction often describes a major branch of literary work, it is also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurd Laßwitz
Kurd Lasswitz (german: link=no, 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''. Biography 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 Ernestine Gymnasium in Gotha (1876–1908). Works His first published science fiction story was ("To the Zero Point of Existence", 1871), depicting life in 2371, but he earned his reputation with his 1897 novel , which describes an encounter between humans and a Martian civilization that is older and more advanced. The book has the Martian race running out of water, eating synthetic foods, travelling by rolling roads, and utilising space stations. His spaceships use anti-gravity, but travel realistic orbital trajectories, and use occasional mid-course co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Machine Stops
"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in ''The Oxford and Cambridge Review'' (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's ''The Eternal Moment and Other Stories'' in 1928. After being voted one of the best novellas up to 1965, it was included that same year in the populist anthology ''Modern Short Stories''. In 1973 it was also included in '' The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two''. The story, set in a world where humanity lives underground and relies on a giant machine to provide its needs, predicted technologies similar to instant messaging and the Internet. Plot summary The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard room, with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Travel is permitted, but is unpopular and rarel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 In Science
The year 1909 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy * August 20 – Dwarf planet Pluto is photographed for the first time, at the Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, U.S., 21 years before being identified. * Comet Halley first becomes visible on a photographic plate. Biology * Danish plant physiologist Wilhelm Johannsen introduces the term " Gene". * Karl Landsteiner, Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper first isolate the poliovirus. * Thomas Hunt Morgan produces heritable mutant '' Drosophila melanogaster''. Chemistry * February 5 – Leo Baekeland announces the creation of the early plastic Bakelite, a hard thermosetting phenol formaldehyde resin, to the American Chemical Society. * Summer – Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch first demonstrate the Haber process, the catalytic formation of ammonia from hydrogen and atmospheric nitrogen under conditions of high temperature and pressure. * The concept of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1908 In Science Fiction
The year 1908 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * November 23 : Nelson S. Bond, American writer, (d. 2006). Deaths Events Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels * ''Le Docteur Lerne, sous-dieu'', novel by Maurice Renard. Stories collections Short stories Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies Excursion to the Moon See also * 1908 in science * 1907 in science fiction * 1909 in science fiction References {{Reflist * science-fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel univer ... Science fiction by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910 In Science Fiction
The year 1910 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * December 24 : Fritz Leiber, American writer (died 1992) Deaths Events Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels * ''La Mort de la Terre'', by J.-H. Rosny aîné. * '' Le Péril bleu'', by Maurice Renard. * ''The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz'' (in French : ''Le Secret de Wilhelm Storitz''), by Jules Verne. Stories collections Short stories * ''The Eternal Adam'' (in French : ''L'Éternel Adam''), by Jules Verne. * '' La Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889'', by Jules Verne. Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies See also * 1910 in science * 1909 in science fiction * 1911 in science fiction References {{Reflist * science-fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiction Set In 1909
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditional narrow sense, "fiction" refers to written narratives in prose often referring specifically to novels, novellas, and short stories. More broadly, however, fiction encompasses imaginary narratives expressed in any medium, including not just writings but also live theatrical performances, films, television programs, radio dramas, comics, role-playing games, and video games. Definition Typically, the fictionality of a work is publicly marketed and so the audience expects the work to deviate in some ways from the real world rather than presenting, for instance, only factually accurate portrayals or characters who are actual people. Because fiction is generally understood to not fully adhere to the real world, the themes and context ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1909 In Film
The year 1909 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Events * Carl Laemmle founds the Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP). *Selig Polyscope Company establish the first permanent film studio in Los Angeles in Edendale, Los Angeles. * The New York Motion Picture Company is founded and also open a film studio in Edendale. The studio is later used by Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios and then Mascot Pictures, which become part of Republic Pictures. * February 4 – The Paris Film Congress begins, an attempt by leading European producers to form a cartel similar to that of the Motion Picture Patents Company in the United States. *May 12 – ''Mr. Flip'' is released and is the first film to feature someone being hit in the face with a pie. *May 23 – The first news cinema, The Daily Bioscope, opens in London. *June 17 – ''In the Sultan's Power'' is the first film ever completely made in Los Angeles, California. It is filmed by director Francis Boggs. *October 25 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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