IanBruntlett
Emperor Mongoose
Hi,
Take a look at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/25/nasa-novel-mission-science-fiction
Woot?
Take a look at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/25/nasa-novel-mission-science-fiction
Woot?
Books via NASA
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Time travel and warp drives may, alas, be out of the picture in a new partnership between Nasa and Tor/Forge Books, which will see the science fiction publisher's authors teaming up with the space agency to release a range of "scientifically accurate and entertaining" novels.
Well, maybe not woot. Simply fiction novels. Not sci-fi.
Well, maybe not woot. Simply fiction novels. Not sci-fi.
Reynard
Emperor Mongoose
"Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible (or at least non-supernatural) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities. Exploring the consequences of scientific innovations is one purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas".[1]
Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures.[2] It is similar to, but differs from, fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature (though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative speculation)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction
A story about a pandemic contagion could most fighteningly be real as with the Black death or it could be an imagined one either yet to happen or never at all and that would be science fiction. 2010 was a science fiction yet everything in the story is very possible today if we had the will.
I would love to read science fiction that is grounded in what we know exists or research says could exist. . My Traveller campaign begins with the SETI program recieving signals from Epsilon eridani which creates a boom in scientific advances towards discovering a way to reach them during the decades before any possible reply would arrive. I envisioned countries on Earth setting up outposts all over the solar system for research and, very importantly, resources. I kept it within the bounds of Traveller's ideal of 'hard science'.
So bring them on!
Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures.[2] It is similar to, but differs from, fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature (though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative speculation)."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction
A story about a pandemic contagion could most fighteningly be real as with the Black death or it could be an imagined one either yet to happen or never at all and that would be science fiction. 2010 was a science fiction yet everything in the story is very possible today if we had the will.
I would love to read science fiction that is grounded in what we know exists or research says could exist. . My Traveller campaign begins with the SETI program recieving signals from Epsilon eridani which creates a boom in scientific advances towards discovering a way to reach them during the decades before any possible reply would arrive. I envisioned countries on Earth setting up outposts all over the solar system for research and, very importantly, resources. I kept it within the bounds of Traveller's ideal of 'hard science'.
So bring them on!
