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  • Today, Stephen Hunt's "The Rise of the Iron Moon" is able to borrow with both hands from the whole of sci-fi's ever-lengthening history and ever-ramifying taxonomy.

    Why Steampunk's Time Has Come Tom Shippey 2011

  • Daniel Hertzberg for The Wall Street Journal Margaret Atwood is fond of sci-fi's scenarios but not its usual blue-sky optimism.

    The Future of Science Fiction Tom Shippey 2011

  • Appalling: sci-fi's an area where there is LOADS of mindblowing work by women (and people of races other than white) and you've gone with ... none of them.

    TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley 2009

  • Falling Skies averaged nearly 7 million viewers an episode and added the term "skitters" to sci-fi's alien lexicon.

    Summer TV Winners and Losers 2011

  • Comments nope sorry he's not but then again i'm biased david lynch's dune remains a timeless classic and there's very few sci-fi's that can last even a decade...

    Filmstalker: Taken director helms Dune 2010

  • It has been suggested that sci-fi's interest in the end of the world is closely connected with the potential science provides us with to bring human history to an end through our own actions and technology.

    Dollhouse at the End of the World James F. McGrath 2010

  • Ideally, sci-fi's next rescuer should be someone whose ideas about the future derive from somewhere — anywhere — other than old sci-fi. ...

    Plenty of Ideas For the Taking Lou Anders 2008

  • Ideally, sci-fi's next rescuer should be someone whose ideas about the future derive from somewhere — anywhere — other than old sci-fi. ...

    Archive 2008-01-01 Lou Anders 2008

  • Pete, you say "somehow we now live in" the future, "and sci-fi's mission, in a way, is fufilled".

    Is Serious Sci-Fi Dying? 2007

  • Maybe I should have clarified that sci-fi's original mission was fufilled.

    Is Serious Sci-Fi Dying? 2007

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