34-405: Damien Francis Broderick (born 22 April 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 74 books. His science fiction novel The Dreaming Dragons (1980) introduced the trope of the generation time machine, his The Judas Mandala (1982) contains the first appearance of the term " virtual reality " in science fiction, and his 1997 popular science book The Spike
68-495: A futurist and science writer are The Spike (1997; revised 2001), a nonfiction book about the technological singularity; The Last Mortal Generation (1999) on the prospect of radically extended youthful longevity; and Outside the Gates of Science , on the scientific evidence for some anomalous or paranormal phenomena (2007). His recent critical studies, x, y, z, t: Dimensions of Science Fiction (2004), Ferocious Minds: Polymathy and
102-656: A 2013 commissioned sequel to Grand Master Robert Silverberg 's 1974 novella "Born with the Dead", appeared with the original work as Beyond the Doors of Death . This was selected to close Gardner Dozois' 2014 Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology. In the same year, a comic fantasy "--And Your Little Dog, Too", written with Rory Barnes, appeared in the short-lived Omni Reboot . Broderick's first horror fiction, "The Unheimlich Maneuver", opened Luis Ortiz's original anthology The Monkey's Other Paw: Revised Classic Stories of Dread and
136-625: A Root's Out of the Question? (2007). With his wife, Barbara Lamar, he wrote the near-future sf thriller Post Mortal Syndrome, serialised online by Cosmos magazine (2007). He edited a book of original essays on the far future, Year Million (2008), which was favorably reviewed by Nature, the Wall Street Journal, etc. In 2010 Climbing Mount Implausible, a collection of mostly early stories, interspersed with memoir commentary, appeared from Borgo/Wildside Books, as did (in 2011) Embarrass My Dog,
170-473: A collection of mostly early articles on sex, religion, and politics, framed by commentary recalling life in the 1960s and 1970s. Broderick has also written radio plays, both adaptations of his own stories (including a 90-minute version of Transmitters ) and original works. His commissioned drama Schrödinger's Dog , first broadcast in 1995, was Australia's entry in the Prix Italia ; and his novella adaptation of
204-510: A letter to philosopher William Whewell , he wrote that the general public needed "digests of what is actually known in each particular branch of science... to give a connected view of what has been done, and what remains to be accomplished." Indeed, as the British population became not just increasingly literate but also well-educated, there was growing demand for science titles. Mary Somerville became an early and highly successful science writer of
238-705: A systemic infection at a hospital in Philadelphia at the age of 70. As a writer, Dozois mainly worked in shorter forms. He won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice: once for " The Peacemaker [ fr ] " in 1983, and again for " Morning Child " in 1984. His short fiction has been collected in The Visible Man (1977), Geodesic Dreams (a best-of collection), Slow Dancing through Time (1990, collaborations), Strange Days (2001, another best-of collection), Morning Child and Other Stories (2004) and When
272-606: The Sidewise Award for Alternate History . Dozois also wrote short fiction reviews for Locus . Michael Swanwick , one of his co-authors, completed a long interview with Dozois covering every published piece of his fiction. Being Gardner Dozois: An Interview by Michael Swanwick was published by Old Earth Books in 2001. It won the Locus Award for Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Related Work . Dozois
306-430: The 1970s with magazines such as Galaxy Science Fiction , If , Worlds of Fantasy , and Worlds of Tomorrow . Dozois was also a prolific short fiction anthologist. After resigning from his Asimov's position, he remained the editor of the anthology series The Year's Best Science Fiction , published annually since 1984. In three decades Locus readers have voted it the year's best anthology almost 20 times and
340-488: The Dead (2014). Popular science Popular science (also called pop-science or popsci ) is an interpretation of science intended for a general audience . While science journalism focuses on recent scientific developments, popular science is more broad ranging. It may be written by professional science journalists or by scientists themselves. It is presented in many forms, including books, film and television documentaries, magazine articles, and web pages. Before
374-528: The Dutton series (Dozois volumes only). Dozois consistently expressed a particular interest in adventure SF and space opera , which he collectively referred to as "center-core SF". co-edited by Dozois and Susan Casper co-edited by Dozois and Mike Resnick co-edited by Dozois and Stanley Schmidt co-edited by Dozois and Jonathan Strahan co-edited by Dozois and Greg Bear Formerly known as "Magic Tales Anthology Series" until 1995; most released under
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#1733066312972408-491: The Great Days Come (2011). As a novelist, Dozois's oeuvre is significantly smaller. He was the author of one solo novel, Strangers (1978), as well as a collaboration with George Alec Effinger , Nightmare Blue (1977), and a collaboration with George R. R. Martin and Daniel Abraham for Hunter's Run (2008). After becoming editor of Asimov's , Dozois's fiction output dwindled. His 2006 novelette "Counterfactual" won
442-591: The Moons of Venus," appeared in five 2011 Year's Best anthologies. The novelette "Walls of Flesh, Bars of Bone", co-written with Broderick's wife Barbara Lamar, appeared in the 2010 anthology Engineering Infinity , edited by Jonathan Strahan . "The Beancounter's Cat" was selected in Gardner Dozois' 2012 Year's Best volume. "This Wind Blowing and this Tide" was reprinted online in Clarkesworld 100 in 2015. "Quicken",
476-573: The New Enlightenment (2005), and Unleashing the Strange (2009) were released by a small US press, Wildside. Several of his books feature cover art by Swedish transhumanist Anders Sandberg , including Earth is but a Star (2001), Broderick's anthology of science fiction stories, and thematically related critical discussions, concerned with the far future. In 2012, with Paul Di Filippo, he published Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels, 1985–2010, which
510-493: The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin . Popular science is a bridge between scientific literature as a professional medium of scientific research, and the realms of popular political and cultural discourse. The goal of the genre is often to capture the methods and accuracy of science while making the language more accessible. Many science-related controversies are discussed in popular science books and publications, such as
544-415: The didactic poem Phenomena written a century later and commented on by Hipparchus . Explaining science in poetic form was not uncommon, and as recently as 1791, Erasmus Darwin wrote The Botanic Garden , two long poems intended to interest and educate readers in botany. Many Greek and Roman scientific handbooks were written for the lay audience, and this "handbook" tradition continued right through to
578-471: The invention of the printing press, with much later examples including books of secrets such as Giambattista Della Porta 's Magia Naturalis (1558) and Isabella Cortese 's Secreti (1561). The 17th century saw the beginnings of the modern scientific revolution and the consequent need for explicit popular science writing. Although works such as Galileo 's The Assayer (1632) and Robert Hooke 's Micrographia (1665) were read by both scientists and
612-473: The long-running debates over biological determinism and the biological components of intelligence, stirred by popular books such as The Mismeasure of Man and The Bell Curve . The purpose of scientific literature is to inform and persuade peers regarding the validity of observations and conclusions and the forensic efficacy of methods. Popular science attempts to inform and convince scientific outsiders (sometimes along with scientists in other fields) of
646-560: The modern specialization and professionalization of science, there was often little distinction between "science" and "popular science", and works intended to share scientific knowledge with a general reader existed as far back as Greek and Roman antiquity. Without these popular works, much of the scientific knowledge of the era might have been lost. For example, none of the original works of the Greek astronomer Eudoxus (4th century BC) have survived, but his contributions were largely preserved due to
680-528: The nineteenth century. Her On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834), intended for the mass audience, sold quite well. Arguably one of the first books in modern popular science, it contained few diagrams and very little mathematics. Ten editions of the book were published, and it was translated into multiple languages. It was the most popular science title from the publisher John Murray until On
714-452: The provincialism of his home town. He was badly injured in a taxi accident after returning from a Philadelphia Phillies game in 2004 (causing him to miss Worldcon for the first time in many years) but made a full recovery. On July 6, 2007, Dozois had surgery for a planned quintuple bypass operation . A week later, he experienced complications which prompted additional surgery to implant a defibrillator . Dozois died on May 27, 2018, of
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#1733066312972748-464: The public, Newton's Principia (1687) was incomprehensible for most readers, so popularizations of Newton's ideas soon followed. Popular science writing surged in countries such as France, where books such as Fontenelle 's Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686) were best-sellers. By 1830, astronomer John Herschel had recognized the need for the specific genre of popular science. In
782-569: The radio play, published the following year, was selected for Gardner Dozois ' Year's Best Science Fiction anthology for that year. His work has been translated into French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Danish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Lithuanian, and Russian. In 2009, he returned to short fiction, with five stories published in Asimov's magazine, one online at Tor.com, and several others elsewhere. Two of these stories were selected for three 2010 Year's Best anthologies. Another, "Under
816-719: The results. Statements in the scientific literature are often qualified and tentative, emphasizing that new observations and results are consistent with and similar to established knowledge wherein qualified scientists are assumed to recognize the relevance. By contrast, popular science often emphasizes uniqueness and generality and may have a tone of factual authority absent from the scientific literature. Comparisons between original scientific reports, derivative science journalism, and popular science typically reveals at least some level of distortion and oversimplification . Gardner Dozois Gardner Raymond Dozois ( / d oʊ ˈ z w ɑː / doh- ZWAH ; July 23, 1947 – May 27, 2018)
850-402: The runner-up almost 10 times. And, with Jack Dann , he edited a long series of themed anthologies, each with a self-explanatory title such as Cats , Dinosaurs , Seaserpents , or Hackers . Stories selected by Gardner Dozois for the annual best-of-year volumes have won, as of December 2015, 44 Hugos , 41 Nebulas , 32 Locus , 10 World Fantasy and 18 Sturgeon Awards . That also includes
884-434: The scientific literature. Some usual features of popular science productions include: The purpose of scientific literature is to inform and persuade peers regarding the validity of observations and conclusions and the forensic efficacy of methods. Popular science attempts to inform and convince scientific outsiders (sometimes along with scientists in other fields) of the significance of data and conclusions and to celebrate
918-431: The significance of data and conclusions and to celebrate the results. Statements in the scientific literature are often qualified and tentative, emphasizing that new observations and results are consistent with and similar to established knowledge wherein qualified scientists are assumed to recognize the relevance. By contrast, popular science emphasizes uniqueness and generality, taking a tone of factual authority absent from
952-488: Was an American science fiction author and editor . He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies (1984–2018) and was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction (1986–2004), garnering multiple Hugo and Locus Awards for those works almost every year. He also won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story twice. He was inducted to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011. Dozois
986-852: Was awarded a grant for 2004–05 by the Australia Council to write fiction exploring technological singularity . In 2005 he received the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. In 2010, he tied for second place in the juried Theodore Sturgeon Award for best sf short story of 2009, and at the World Science Fiction Convention received the A. Bertram Chandler Memorial Award for 2010. Broderick's best-known works as
1020-770: Was born July 23, 1947, in Salem, Massachusetts . He graduated from Salem High School with the Class of 1965. From 1966 to 1969 he served in the Army as a journalist, after which he moved to New York City to work as an editor in the science fiction field. One of his stories had been published by Frederik Pohl in the September 1966 issue of If but his next four appeared in 1970, three in Damon Knight 's anthology series Orbit . Dozois said that he turned to reading fiction partially as an escape from
1054-401: Was known primarily as an editor, winning the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor 15 times in 17 years from 1988 to his retirement from Asimov's in 2004. George R. R. Martin described him as the most important and influential editor in science fiction since John W. Campbell . In addition to his work with Asimov's (of which he was the first associate editor in 1976), he also worked in
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1088-409: Was short-listed for a 2013 Locus Award . His most recent novels are the diptych Godplayers (2005) (selected in the annual Recommended Reading List from Locus ), and K-Machines (2006) (winner of the 2007 Aurealis Award for year's best SF novel), and, with Rory Barnes, a comic noir crime novel, I'm Dying Here: A Comedy of Bad Manners (2009), first released in very limited numbers as I Suppose
1122-746: Was the first to investigate the technological singularity in detail. Broderick holds a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from Deakin University , Australia, with a dissertation ( Frozen Music ) comparing the semiotics of scientific, literary, and science fictional textuality. He was for several years a Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne . Broderick lives in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, tax attorney Barbara Lamar. He
1156-599: Was the founding science fiction editor of the Australian popular science magazine Cosmos from mid-2005 to December 2010. Five of Broderick's books have won Ditmar Awards (including the non-SF Transmitters , which was given a special award); the first, The Dreaming Dragons , was runner-up for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel . He has also won the Aurealis award four times. In November 2003, Broderick
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