Saturn Girl, Irma Ardeen, in Adventure Comics Legion of Super-heroes hails from the inhabited moon, Titan, of the Ringed planet. She has telepathic powers, can project illusions, etc. She is drawn as a blonde in a tight red and white get-up with a Saturn device on the breast area, neat. There was a Science Fiction novel called The Throne of Saturn about a space probe, but I have no details.
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This is a subject of much debate as what we tend to call science fiction was in existence long before there a classification for the genre. The first piece of literature ever written, The Epic of Gilgamesh (4500 bc), in parts can be considered science fiction. The bronze age legends of Daedelus can be considered gadgetry science fiction. Lucian of Samosata c. A.D. 125 - after A.D. 180 has been named as the father of science fiction. Galileo Gaile Cyrano Bergerac Daniel Defoe Nathanial Hawthorne have all been credited with writing what can be termed science fiction. Mary Shelly has been voted as the first science fiction author for her novels Frankenstein and The Last Man.
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Ted Kosmatka is a science fiction writer who has written novels such as "The Flicker Men" and "The Games." He has also worked as a writer for video games and has written short stories that have been published in various magazines.
Aldebaran is an actual star and has been used as a setting in numerous science fiction stories. see link
Kim Stanley Robinson has: Played Himself - Interviewee in "Arena" in 1975. Played himself in "Brave New Worlds: The Science Fiction Phenomenon" in 1993. Played Himself - Science-Fiction Writer in "Prophets of Science Fiction" in 2011. Played Himself - science fiction author in "Prophets of Science Fiction" in 2011. Played Himself - Author in "Prophets of Science Fiction" in 2011.
There have been a few incidences where the speculation in science fiction has in fact become true. The most famous example is Arthur C. Clarke's prediction on synchronous satellites. The science can be fiction or already possible. What matters is that you have a believable character using that science or perhaps a warning where that science could take us in the future.
Unfortunately no. Science fiction has been used to describe some of the most blatant fantasy ever.
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I would have to say the various science=fiction novels of Jules Verne, some of which have, well, all, have been around over a century!
If the animals have been "uplifted" and have the ability to communicate with humans, then literature about such animals is science fiction. Tales like Old Yellar or Impossible Journey are not science fiction.
Yes. The first issue of the magazine was published as Astounding Stories of Super Science in January 1930. The Magazine has variously been called Astounding Stories of Super Science, Astounding Stories, Astounding Science Fiction, Astounding Science Fiction and Fact. In 1960 it changed its name to Analog Science Fiction and Fact. As of 2009 it was still in print under that name.