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1924 In Science Fiction
The year 1924 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * June 6 : Robert Abernathy, American writer (died 1990) * July 20 : Thomas Berger, American writer (died 2014) * André Caroff, French writer (died 2009) Deaths Events Awards Literary releases Novels * '' Berge Meere und Giganten'', by Alfred Döblin. *'' The City of Light'', a novel by Mieczysław Smolarski in genres of dystopia and catastrophism. The novel's themes include antimilitarism and pacifism, prevalent after World War I. Stories collections Short stories * '' Deux mille ans sous la mer'', by Léon Groc. Movies * '' Aelita'', by Yakov Protazanov. See also * 1924 in science * 1923 in science fiction The year 1923 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * January 12: Pierre Versins, American writer (died 2001) * April 17: Lloyd Biggle, Jr., American writer (died 2002) * April 23: Avram D ... [...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] |
Antimilitarism
Antimilitarism (also spelt anti-militarism) is a doctrine that opposes war, relying heavily on a critical theory of imperialism and was an explicit goal of the First International, First and Second International. Whereas pacifism is the doctrine that disputes (especially between countries) should be settled without recourse to violence, Paul B. Miller defines anti-militarism as "ideology and activities...aimed at reducing the civil power of the military and ultimately, preventing international war". Cynthia Cockburn defines an anti-militarist movement as one opposed to "Military dictatorship, military rule, high military expenditure or the imposition of foreign bases in their country". Martin Ceadel points out that anti-militarism is sometimes equated with pacificism—general opposition to war or violence, except in cases where force is deemed necessary to advance the cause of peace.Martin Ceadel, 'Thinking about peace and war''. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1987. , p. 101. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction By Year
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 In Science Fiction
The year 1925 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * January 22 : Katherine MacLean, American writer * February 14 : J. T. McIntosh, Scottish writer (died 2008) * March 12 : Harry Harrison, American writer (died 2012) * June 9 : ** Bob Ottum, American writer (died 1986) ** Keith Laumer, American writer (died 1993) * August 18 : Brian Aldiss, British writer (died 2017) * Arkady Strugatsky, Russian writer (died 1991) Deaths Events Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels * '' Les Hommes frénétiques'', by Ernest Pérochon * '' Les Navigateurs de l'infini'', by J.-H. Rosny aîné. * '' Out of the Silence'', by Erle Cox (publication as book ; the novel had been published in a magazine, each week during six months, in 1919). * '' Heart of a Dog'' by Mikhail Bulgakov. * ''The Fatal Eggs'' by Mikhail Bulgakov. * '' Professor Dowell's H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1923 In Science Fiction
The year 1923 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Births and deaths Births * January 12: Pierre Versins, American writer (died 2001) * April 17: Lloyd Biggle, Jr., American writer (died 2002) * April 23: Avram Davidson, American writer (died 1993) * July 12: James E. Gunn, American writer * July 23: Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (died 1958) * August 20: Henri Bessière, French writer (died 2011) * November 1: Gordon R. Dickson, American writer (died 2001) Deaths Events * March: first publication of '' Weird Tales'', American pulp magazine. Awards The main science-fiction Awards known at the present time did not exist at this time. Literary releases Novels * '' Aelita'', by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. * '' La Poupée sanglante'' (''The Bloody Doll''), by Gaston Leroux. Stories collections Short stories Comics Audiovisual outputs Movies See also * 1923 in science * 1922 in science fiction * 1924 in science fic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 In Science
The year 1924 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy and space exploration * November 23 – Edwin Hubble announces his discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe. * The Einstein Tower near Potsdam, Germany, designed by Erich Mendelsohn, becomes operational as an astrophysical observatory. * Mount Stromlo Observatory near Canberra, Australia, is established as the Commonwealth Solar Observatory. * 1056 Azalea is discovered. Biology *The term " ectogenesis" is coined by British scientist J. B. S. Haldane to describe the growth of mammalian embryos in artificial environments. *California grizzly bear last sighted. Biochemistry * The first inactive tetanus vaccine (tetanus toxoid, TT) is discovered by Gaston Ramon, C. Zoeller and P. Descombey and produced. * The first scarlet fever vaccine is discovered by George F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakov Protazanov
Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov (russian: Яков Александрович Протазанов; 4 February ( O.S. 23 January ) 1881 – 8 August 1945) was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter, and one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia. He was an Honored Artist of the Russian SFSR (1935) and Uzbek SSR (1944). Biography Born in the Vinokurov family estate to educated Russian parents, both of whom belonged to the merchantry social class. Mikhail Arlazorov. ''Protazanov''. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1973, pp. 7—9 His father Alexander Savvich Protazanov came from a long generation of merchants and was a hereditary distinguished citizen of Kiev (an inherited privilege first granted to Yakov's great-grandfather, a merchant also named Yakov Protazanov who moved with his family to Kiev from Bronnitsy). Alexander worked with the Shibaev brothers of the family of Old Believers whose father Sidor Shibaev was among the pioneers of the oil industry. Yakov's mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aelita
''Aelita'' (russian: Аэли́та, ), also known as ''Aelita: Queen of Mars'', is a 1924 Soviet silent science fiction film directed by Yakov Protazanov and produced at the Mezhrabpom-Rus film studio. It was based on Alexei Tolstoy's 1923 novel of the same name. Nikolai Tseretelli and Valentina Kuindzhi were cast in leading roles. Though the main focus of the story are the daily lives of a small group of people during the post-war Soviet Union, the film's enduring importance comes from its early sci-fi elements. It primarily tells of an engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los (russian: Лось) traveling to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders, with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope. In its performances in the cinemas in Leningrad, Dmitri Shostakovich played on the piano the music he provided for the film. In the United States, ''Aelita'' was edited and ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific Ocean, Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in Genocides in history (World War I through World War II), genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the Spanish flu, 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising French Third Republic, France, Russia, and British Empire, Britain) and the Triple A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacifism
Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence. Pacifists generally reject theories of Just War. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace campaigner Émile Arnaud and adopted by other peace activists at the tenth Universal Peace Congress in Glasgow in 1901. A related term is '' ahimsa'' (to do no harm), which is a core philosophy in Indian Religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. While modern connotations are recent, having been explicated since the 19th century, ancient references abound. In modern times, interest was revived by Leo Tolstoy in his late works, particularly in '' The Kingdom of God Is Within You''. Mahatma Gandhi propounded the practice of steadfast nonviolent opposition which he called " satyagraha", instrumental in its role in the Indian Independence Movement. Its effectiveness served as inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr., James Lawson, Mary and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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