Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy . Liu has won multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards for his novel translations and original short fiction, which has appeared in F&SF , Asimov's , Analog , Lightspeed , Clarkesworld , and multiple "Year's Best" anthologies.
59-530: Premios Ignotus are annual Spanish literary awards that were created in 1991 by the Asociación Española de Fantasía, Ciencia Ficción y Terror (AEFCFT, translation: Spanish Association of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror). The awards, which are in the genres of science fiction and fantasy , are voted on by members of HispaCon , the national science fiction convention of Spain. The method appears to be very similar to
118-761: A computer -like screen , computer viruses , video chat , tanning beds , home treadmills , and more. In 1963, the time travel-themed Doctor Who premiered on BBC Television. The original series ran until 1989 and was revived in 2005. It has been extremely popular worldwide and has greatly influenced later TV science fiction. Other programs in the 1960s included The Outer Limits (1963–1965), Lost in Space (1965–1968), and The Prisoner (1967). Star Trek (the original series), created by Gene Roddenberry , premiered in 1966 on NBC Television and ran for three seasons. It combined elements of space opera and Space Western . Only mildly successful at first,
177-428: A space opera , went on to become a worldwide popular culture phenomenon , and the second-highest-grossing film series of all time. Since the 1980s, science fiction films , along with fantasy , horror , and superhero films, have dominated Hollywood's big-budget productions. Science fiction films often " cross-over " with other genres, including film noir ( Blade Runner - 1982), family film ( E.T.
236-439: A " sense of wonder ". According to Isaac Asimov , "Science fiction can be defined as that branch of literature which deals with the reaction of human beings to changes in science and technology ." Robert A. Heinlein wrote that "A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on
295-526: A Portales) 1999 Connie Willis Why the World Didn't End Last Tuesday (Por qué el mundo no acabó el martes pasado) 1998 Carlos Gardini Timbuctú 1997 Connie Willis Even the Queen (Incluso la reina) 1996 Mike Resnick Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge (Siete vistas de la garganta Olduvai) 1995 Alan Dean Foster Our Lady of
354-581: A Small, Angry Planet ( El largo viaje a un pequeño planeta iracundo ) 2018 Kameron Hurley The Stars Are Legion ( Las estrellas son legión ) 2017 Liu Cixin The Three Body Problem (El problema de los tres cuerpos) 2016 Claire North The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August 2015 Andy Weir The Martian (El Marciano) 2014 China Miéville Embassytown 2013 China Miéville The City &
413-535: A great and influential film. In 1954, Godzilla , directed by Ishirō Honda , began the kaiju subgenre of science fiction film, which feature large creatures of any form, usually attacking a major city or engaging other monsters in battle . 1968's 2001: A Space Odyssey , directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the work of Arthur C. Clarke , rose above the mostly B-movie offerings up to that time both in scope and quality, and influenced later science fiction films. That same year, Planet of
472-669: A journey to the Moon and how the Earth 's motion is seen from there. Kepler has been called the "father of science fiction". Following the 17th-century development of the novel as a literary form , Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein (1818) and The Last Man (1826) helped define the form of the science fiction novel. Brian Aldiss has argued that Frankenstein was the first work of science fiction. Edgar Allan Poe wrote several stories considered to be science fiction, including " The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall " (1835), which featured
531-554: A la luz de las estrellas") 2017 Ken Liu "The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species" ("Acerca de las costumbres de elaboración de libros en determinadas especies") 2016 Ken Liu Algoritmos para el amor 2015 Paolo Bacigalupi El jugador 2014 Ken Liu The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary (El hombre due puso fin a la historia: documental) 2013 Ken Liu The Paper Menagerie (El zoo de papel) 2012 Iain M. Banks The State of
590-650: A software engineer for Microsoft , and then joined a start-up in Cambridge, Massachusetts . He later received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2004 and after working as a corporate lawyer, eventually became a high-tech litigation consultant. Liu began publishing fiction in 2002. His first published work was "Carthaginian Rose", a short story on mind uploading , which was published alongside nine other authors in The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1 . Liu has said he wanted to become
649-464: A thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method ." American science fiction author and editor Lester del Rey wrote, "Even the devoted aficionado or fan—has a hard time trying to explain what science fiction is," and the lack of a "full satisfactory definition" is because "there are no easily delineated limits to science fiction." Another definition comes from The Literature Book by DK and is, "scenarios that are at
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#1732868865276708-495: A total estimated readership of at least 1 million), making it the world's most popular science fiction periodical . In 1984, William Gibson 's first novel, Neuromancer , helped popularize cyberpunk and the word " cyberspace ", a term he originally coined in his 1982 short story Burning Chrome . In 1986, Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold began her Vorkosigan Saga . 1992's Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson predicted immense social upheaval due to
767-516: A trip to the Moon . Jules Verne was noted for his attention to detail and scientific accuracy, especially in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870). In 1887, the novel El anacronópete by Spanish author Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau introduced the first time machine . An early French/Belgian science fiction writer was J.-H. Rosny aîné (1856–1940). Rosny's masterpiece
826-575: A very palatable form... New adventures pictured for us in the scientifiction of today are not at all impossible of realization tomorrow... Many great science stories destined to be of historical interest are still to be written... Posterity will point to them as having blazed a new trail, not only in literature and fiction, but progress as well. In 1928, E. E. "Doc" Smith 's first published work, The Skylark of Space , written in collaboration with Lee Hawkins Garby , appeared in Amazing Stories . It
885-623: A world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state . It influenced the emergence of dystopia as a literary genre . In 1926, Hugo Gernsback published the first American science fiction magazine , Amazing Stories . In its first issue he wrote: By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells and Edgar Allan Poe type of story—a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision... Not only do these amazing tales make tremendously interesting reading—they are always instructive. They supply knowledge... in
944-632: A writer so he could make stories that “turn values upside down and inside out to gain new perspectives”. After a long career writing and publishing short fiction, Liu turned to epic fantasy novels, starting with The Grace of Kings (2015). He has also written for the Star Wars universe, with The Legends of Luke Skywalker (2017). Along with his original work, Liu has translated the works of multiple Chinese authors into English, including Liu Cixin , Hao Jingfang , Chen Qiufan , and Xia Jia . His translation of The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin helped
1003-470: Is Les Navigateurs de l'Infini ( The Navigators of Infinity ) (1925) in which the word astronaut, "astronautique", was used for the first time. Many critics consider H. G. Wells one of science fiction's most important authors, or even "the Shakespeare of science fiction". His works include The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), and The War of
1062-704: Is a genre of speculative fiction , which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology , space exploration , time travel , parallel universes , and extraterrestrial life . It often explores human responses to changes in science and technology. Science fiction is related to fantasy , horror , and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres . Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Subgenres include hard science fiction , which emphasizes scientific accuracy, and soft science fiction , focusing on social sciences. Other notable subgenres are cyberpunk , which explores
1121-619: Is often called the first great space opera . The same year, Philip Francis Nowlan 's original Buck Rogers story, Armageddon 2419 , also appeared in Amazing Stories . This was followed by a Buck Rogers comic strip , the first serious science fiction comic . Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future is a " future history " science fiction novel written in 1930 by the British author Olaf Stapledon . A work of unprecedented scale in
1180-503: Is one of the most influential examples of social science fiction , feminist science fiction , and anthropological science fiction . In 1979, Science Fiction World began publication in the People's Republic of China . It dominates the Chinese science fiction magazine market , at one time claiming a circulation of 300,000 copies per issue and an estimated 3–5 readers per copy (giving it
1239-886: Is published by Simon & Schuster . Liu was born in 1976 in Lanzhou , China . He spent his childhood with his grandparents. His mother, who received her Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States, is a pharmaceutical chemist, while his father is a computer engineer. The family immigrated to the United States when Liu was 11 years old. They lived in California and Stonington, Connecticut before settling in Waterford , Connecticut. Liu graduated from Waterford High School in 1994, where he ran cross-country and track. At Harvard College , he studied English Literature and Computer Science, receiving his A. B. in 1998. After graduation, Liu worked as
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#17328688652761298-625: Is the first work of fiction, of any length, to win all of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. In addition, his short story, "Mono no aware" won the 2013 Hugo Award , and his novella "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary" was also nominated for a Hugo. The first novel in his The Dandelion Dynasty series, The Grace of Kings , was a 2016 Nebula Award finalist. The novel was the 2016 Locus Award Best First Novel winner. Besides his original work, Liu's translation of Liu Cixin 's Chinese language novel The Three-Body Problem (the first in
1357-731: The Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy) won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel , making it the first translated novel to have won the award. Liu also translated the third volume of the Remembrance of Earth's Past series, Death's End , in 2016, which was a 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel finalist. One of Liu's short stories, "Thoughts and Prayers", is a part of Jonathan Strahan 's The Year's Best Science Fiction (2020), Vol 1. Many of Liu's short stories have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, and multiple other languages and published in short stories collections: Pantheon
1416-3378: The Hugo Awards . Award winners by category [ edit ] Category: Novel [ edit ] Year Author(s) Title Ref. 1991 Dan Simmons Hyperión 1992 Tim Powers La fuerza de su mirada 1993 N/A No award 1994 Gabriel Bermúdez Castillo Salud mortal 1995 Juan Miguel Aguilera y Javier Redal El refugio 1996 Rodolfo Martínez La sonrisa del gato 1997 Rodolfo Martínez Tierra de nadie: Jormungand 1998 Javier Negrete La mirada de las furias 1999 Juan Miguel Aguilera La locura de Dios 2000 Rodolfo Martínez El Abismo te devuelve la mirada 2001 José Antonio Suárez Nuxlum 2002 Gabriel Bermúdez Castillo Demonios en el cielo 2003 Carlos F. Castrosín Cinco días antes 2004 Javier Negrete La espada de fuego 2005 Rodolfo Martínez El sueño del rey rojo 2006 Eduardo Vaquerizo Danza de tinieblas 2007 Rafael Marín Juglar 2008 Javier Negrete Alejandro Magno y las Águilas de Roma 2009 David Jasso Día de Perros 2010 Eduardo Vaquerizo Última noche de Hipatia 2011 Victor Conde Crónicas del multiverso 2012 Rodolfo Martínez Fieramente humano 2013 Félix J. Palma El mapa del cielo 2014 Eduardo Vaquerizo Memoria de tinieblas 2015 Félix J. Palma El mapa del caos 2016 Guillem López Challenger 2017 Guillem López La polilla en la casa del humo 2018 Jesús Cañadas Las tres muertes de Fermín Salvochea 2019 Cristina Jurado Bionautas 2020 Diana P. Morales Voces en la ribera del mundo 2021 Sergio S. Morán Se vende alma (por no poder atender) Category: Anthology [ edit ] Year Editor(s) Title Ref. 2021 Marcheto Cuentos para Algernon: Año VIII 2020 Marcheto Cuentos para Algernon: Año VII 2019 Rocío Vega La compañía amable 2018 Ken Liu The Paper Menagerie ( El zoo de papel ) 2017 Felicidad Martínez La mirada extraña 2016 Mariano Villarreal A la deriva en el marde las lluvias 2015 Mariano Villarreal Terra Nova 3 2014 Mariano Villarreal & Luis Pestarini Terra Nova Vol. 2 2010 Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel De mecánica y alquimia 2009 Santiago Eximeno Bebés jugando con cuchillos 2008 Premio UPC 2006 2003 Andrzej Sapkowski El último deseo Category: Foreign Novel [ edit ] Year Author(s) Title Ref. 2021 Becky Chambers A Closed and Common Orbit 2020 Kameron Hurley The Light Brigade ( La brigada de luz ) 2019 Becky Chambers The Long Way to
1475-477: The Russian writer and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov presented a view of a future interstellar communist civilization and is considered one of the most important Soviet science fiction novels. In 1959, Robert A. Heinlein 's Starship Troopers marked a departure from his earlier juvenile stories and novels. It is one of the first and most influential examples of military science fiction , and introduced
1534-447: The information revolution . In 2007, Liu Cixin 's novel, The Three-Body Problem , was published in China. It was translated into English by Ken Liu and published by Tor Books in 2014, and won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel , making Liu the first Asian writer to win the award. Emerging themes in late 20th and early 21st century science fiction include environmental issues ,
1593-500: The Apes (the original), directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and based on the 1963 French novel La Planète des Singes by Pierre Boulle , was released to popular and critical acclaim, its vivid depiction of a post-apocalyptic world in which intelligent apes dominate humans . In 1977, George Lucas began the Star Wars film series with the film now identified as " Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope . " The series, often called
1652-568: The Art (Última Generación) 2011 Greg Egan Luminous (Luminoso) 2010 John Kessel The Invisible Empire 2009 J. G. Ballard The Index 2008 Vernor Vinge The Cookie Monster 2007 Greg Egan Learning to Be Me (Aprendiendo a ser yo) 2006 Mike Resnick Down Memory Lane (El sumidero de la memoria) 2005 George R. R. Martin Path of
1711-946: The City (La ciudad y la ciudad) 2012 Paolo Bacigalupi The Windup Girl (La chica mecánica) Haruki Murakami 1Q84 2011 Terry Pratchett Nation (Nación) 2010 Greg Egan Diaspora 2009 Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policemen's Union 2008 Cormac McCarthy The Road 2007 Richard Morgan Market Forces 2006 George R. R. Martin A Storm of Swords 2005 Andreas Eschbach The Carpet Makers 2004 George R. R. Martin A Clash of Kings 2003 George R. R. Martin A Game of Thrones 2002 China Miéville Perdido Street Station 2001 Neal Stephenson Snow Crash 2000 Connie Willis To Say Nothing of
1770-941: The Dog 1999 Joe Haldeman Forever Peace 1998 Kim Stanley Robinson Green Mars 1997 Kim Stanley Robinson Red Mars 1996 Greg Bear Moving Mars 1995 Connie Willis Doomsday Book 1994 Hal Clement Mission of Gravity 1992 Tim Powers The Stress of Her Regard 1991 Dan Simmons Hyperion Category: Foreign Short Story [ edit ] Year Author(s) Title Ref. 2021 Ted Chiang "Exhalation" ("Exhalación” / “Exhalació") 2020 Martha Wells All Systems Red ( Sistemas críticos ) 2019 Nnedi Okorafor Binti 2018 Aliette de Bodard "Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight" ("Tres tazas de aflicción
1829-606: The Dragon (Camino de Dragón) 2004 George R. R. Martin The Ice Dragon (El dragón de hielo) 2003 Andrzej Sapkowski Los musicos 2002 Mike Resnick The 43 Antarean Dynasties (Las 43 dinastías de Antares) 2001 Robert Silverberg Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another (Entra un soldado, despus otro) 2000 Connie Willis Chance (Azar) Connie Willis Nonstop to Portales (Directos
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1888-575: The Extra-Terrestrial - 1983), war ( Enemy Mine - 1985), comedy ( Spaceballs - 1987, Galaxy Quest - 1999), animation ( WALL-E – 2008, Big Hero 6 – 2014), Western ( Serenity – 2005), action ( Edge of Tomorrow – 2014, The Matrix – 1999), adventure ( Jupiter Ascending – 2015, Interstellar – 2014), mystery ( Minority Report – 2002), thriller ( Ex Machina – 2014), drama ( Melancholia – 2011, Predestination – 2014), and romance ( Eternal Sunshine of
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2006-7321: The Machine (Nuestra Señora de la Máquina) 1994 Orson Scott Card Ender's Game (El juego de Ender) References [ edit ] ^ "AEFCFT » 2011 Ignotus Awards Winners" . www.aefcft.com . Retrieved 2021-06-04 . ^ "AEFCFT » 2012 Ignotus Awards Winners" . www.aefcft.com . Retrieved 2021-06-04 . ^ "AEFCFT » 2013 Ignotus Awards Winners" . www.aefcft.com . Retrieved 2021-06-04 . ^ "Locus Online News » 2014 Ignotus Awards Winners" . www.locusmag.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "Locus Online News » 2015 Ignotus Awards Winners" . www.locusmag.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "AEFCFT » 2016 Ignotus Awards Winners" . www.aefcft.com/ . Retrieved 2017-11-21 . ^ "AEFCFT » 2017 Ignotus Awards Winners" . www.aefcft.com/ . Retrieved 2021-06-04 . ^ "AEFCFT » 2018 Ignotus Awards Winners" . www.aefcft.com/ . Retrieved 2021-06-04 . ^ "AEFCFT » 2019 Ignotus Awards Winners" . www.aefcft.com/ . Retrieved 2021-06-04 . ^ "AEFCFT » Informe Ignotus 2020" . www.aefcft.com/ . Retrieved 2022-06-22 . ^ Locus (2020-11-16). "2020 Ignotus Winners" . www.locusmag.org . Retrieved 22 June 2022 . ^ "AEFCFT » Informe Ignotus 2021" . www.aefcft.com/ . Retrieved 2022-06-22 . ^ Locus (2021-11-22). "2021 Ignotus Winners" . www.locusmag.org . Retrieved 22 June 2022 . ^ Locus (2019-12-10). "2019 Ignotus Winners" . www.locusmag.org . Retrieved 22 June 2022 . ^ Locus (2018-11-19). "2018 Premio Ignotus Winners" . www.locusmag.org . Retrieved 22 June 2022 . ^ Locus (2017-11-20). "2017 Premio Ignotus Winners" . www.locusmag.org . Retrieved 22 June 2022 . ^ "AEFCFT » 2016 Ignotus Awards Winners" . aefcft.com/ . Retrieved 2017-11-21 . ^ "Premios Ignotus 2003" . Premio Ignotus (in Spanish) . Retrieved 2022-03-20 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2014" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2013" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2012" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2011" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2010" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2009" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2008" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2007" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2006" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2005" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2004" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2003" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2002" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2001" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 2000" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 1999" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 1998" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 1997" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 1996" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 1995" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 1994" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 1992" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . ^ "sfadb: Ignotus Awards 1991" . www.sfadb.com . Retrieved 2015-11-13 . External links [ edit ] Official web site Science Fiction Awards Database: Ignotus Awards v t e Science fiction Outline Authors Definitions Anthropological Hard Scientific romance Soft Golden Age History New Wave Timeline Subgenres Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic Comedy Sitcoms Feminist Grimdark Inner space Mecha Anime and manga Mundane Space warfare Military Space opera Space Western Parallel universes Isekai Science fantasy Dying Earth Planetary romance Superhero Sword and planet Social Climate fiction Christian Libertarian Utopian and dystopian Tech noir Spy-Fi Techno-thriller Tokusatsu Kaiju Underwater Cyberpunk derivatives Cyberpunk Japanese Biopunk Dieselpunk Nanopunk Solarpunk Steampunk Culture Conventions Fandom Fanzines ISFDB Libraries and museums Science Fiction Museum Studies Women in SF Worldcon Region Australian Bengali Brazilian Canadian Chilean Chinese Croatian Czech Estonian French Hungarian Japanese Norwegian Polish Romanian Russian Serbian Spanish Yugoslav Awards Cinematic Jules Verne Saturn Literary, art, and audio Astounding Aurealis BSFA Campbell Memorial Chesley Clarke Crook Deutscher Dick Ditmar Endeavor FantLab Galaxy Gaughan Geffen Golden Duck Grand Master Grand Prix Harland Heinlein Ignotus Kitschies Lambda Laßwitz Locus Nautilus Nebula Nommo Norton Parsec Prometheus Rhysling SFERA Sidewise Skylark Sturgeon Sunburst Tähtivaeltaja TBD Tiptree Tour-Apollo Translation Urania Vogel Writers and Illustrators of
2065-457: The Spotless Mind – 2004, Her – 2013). Science fiction and television have consistently been in a close relationship. Television or television-like technologies frequently appeared in science fiction long before television itself became widely available in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The first known science fiction television program was a thirty-five-minute adapted excerpt of
2124-548: The States and Empires of the Moon (1657) and The States and Empires of the Sun (1662), Margaret Cavendish 's " The Blazing World " (1666), Jonathan Swift 's Gulliver's Travels (1726), Ludvig Holberg 's Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum (1741) and Voltaire 's Micromégas (1752). Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan considered Somnium the first science fiction story; it depicts
2183-510: The Worlds (1898). His science fiction imagined alien invasion , biological engineering , invisibility , and time travel . In his non-fiction futurologist works he predicted the advent of airplanes , military tanks , nuclear weapons , satellite television , space travel , and something resembling the World Wide Web . Edgar Rice Burroughs 's A Princess of Mars , published in 1912,
2242-402: The book become a best seller to English readers. He has also worked as an editor. While editing the anthology Invisible Planets , Ken Liu translated the stories contained within it from Chinese into English. Some of Liu's work have been adapted into visual media. His short story "Memories of My Mother" was the basis of Beautiful Dreamer (2016) by David Gaddie. His short story "Real Artists"
2301-413: The concept of powered armor exoskeletons . The German space opera series Perry Rhodan , written by various authors, started in 1961 with an account of the first Moon landing and has since expanded in space to multiple universes , and in time by billions of years. It has become the most popular science fiction book series of all time. In the 1960s and 1970s, New Wave science fiction
2360-506: The creation of microrobots and micromachinery , nanotechnology , smartdust , virtual reality , and artificial intelligence (including swarm intelligence ), as well as developing the ideas of "necroevolution" and the creation of artificial worlds. In 1965, Dune by Frank Herbert featured a much more complex and detailed imagined future society than had previously in most science fiction. In 1967 Anne McCaffrey began her Dragonriders of Pern science fantasy series. Two of
2419-439: The episodes, ran from 1959 to 1964. It featured fantasy , suspense , and horror as well as science fiction, with each episode being a complete story. Critics have ranked it as one of the best TV programs of any genre . The animated series The Jetsons , while intended as comedy and only running for one season (1962–1963), predicted many inventions now in common use: flat-screen televisions , newspapers on
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2478-626: The fallibility of memory, and the essence of what it means to be human. During the COVID-19 pandemic , Liu was disturbed by finger-pointing, jingoism, and xenophobia in the face of what he saw as an existential, global threat; he began to seek solace in the Tao Te Ching and subsequently released a new translation of the ancient text, Laozi's Dao De Jing: A New Interpretation for a Transformative Time (2024). Liu lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts . Liu's short story " The Paper Menagerie "
2537-527: The field came to associate the term with low-budget, low-tech " B-movies " and with low-quality pulp science fiction . By the 1970s, critics within the field, such as Damon Knight and Terry Carr , were using "sci fi" to distinguish hack-work from serious science fiction. Peter Nicholls writes that "SF" (or "sf") is "the preferred abbreviation within the community of sf writers and readers." Robert Heinlein found even "science fiction" insufficient for certain types of works in this genre, and suggested
2596-743: The first science fiction novel . Some of the stories from The Arabian Nights , along with the 10th-century The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter and Ibn al-Nafis 's 13th-century Theologus Autodidactus , are also argued to contain elements of science fiction. Written during the Scientific Revolution and later the Age of Enlightenment are considered true science-fantasy books. Francis Bacon 's New Atlantis (1627), Johannes Kepler 's Somnium (1634), Athanasius Kircher 's Itinerarium extaticum (1656), Cyrano de Bergerac 's Comical History of
2655-640: The first true science fiction novel . Jules Verne and H.G. Wells are pivotal figures in the genre's development. In the 20th century, expanded with the introduction of space operas , dystopian literature, pulp magazines , and the Golden Age of Science Fiction . Science fiction has been called the "literature of ideas ", and continues to evolve, incorporating diverse voices and themes, influencing not just literature but film, TV, and culture at large. Besides providing entertainment it can also criticize present-day society and explore alternatives, and inspiration
2714-480: The genre, it describes the history of humanity from the present onwards across two billion years. In 1937, John W. Campbell became editor of Astounding Science Fiction , an event that is sometimes considered the beginning of the Golden Age of Science Fiction , which was characterized by stories celebrating scientific achievement and progress . The "Golden Age" is often said to have ended in 1946, but sometimes
2773-472: The implications of the Internet and the expanding information universe, questions about biotechnology , nanotechnology , and post-scarcity societies . Recent trends and subgenres include steampunk , biopunk , and mundane science fiction . The first, or at least one of the first, recorded science fiction film is 1902's A Trip to the Moon , directed by French filmmaker Georges Méliès . It
2832-405: The interface between technology and society, and climate fiction , addressing environmental issues. Precedents for science fiction are argued to exist as far back as antiquity, but the modern genre primarily arose in the 19th and early 20th centuries when popular writers began looking to technological progress and speculation. Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein , written in 1818, is often credited as
2891-527: The intersection of other more concrete subgenres. Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying "Science fiction is what we point to when we say it." Forrest J Ackerman has been credited with first using the term "sci-fi" (analogous to the then-trendy " hi-fi ") in about 1954. The first known use in print was a description of Donovan's Brain by movie critic Jesse Zunser in January 1954. As science fiction entered popular culture , writers and fans active in
2950-415: The late 1940s and the 1950s are included. In 1942, Isaac Asimov started his Foundation series , which chronicles the rise and fall of galactic empires and introduced psychohistory . The series was later awarded a one-time Hugo Award for "Best All-Time Series". Theodore Sturgeon 's More Than Human (1953) explored possible future human evolution . In 1957, Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale by
3009-472: The novellas included in the first novel, Dragonflight , made McCaffrey the first woman to win a Hugo or Nebula Award . In 1968, Philip K. Dick 's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published. It is the literary source of the Blade Runner movie franchise . In 1969, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin was set on a planet in which the inhabitants have no fixed gender . It
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#17328688652763068-603: The play RUR , written by the Czech playwright Karel Čapek , broadcast live from the BBC's Alexandra Palace studios on 11 February 1938. The first popular science fiction program on American television was the children's adventure serial Captain Video and His Video Rangers , which ran from June 1949 to April 1955. The Twilight Zone (the original series), produced and narrated by Rod Serling , who also wrote or co-wrote most of
3127-689: The series gained popularity through syndication and extraordinary fan interest . It became a very popular and influential franchise with many films , television shows , novels , and other works and products. Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994) led to six additional live action Star Trek shows: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999), Voyager (1995–2001) , Enterprise (2001–2005), Discovery (2017–2024), Picard (2020–2023), and Strange New Worlds (2022–present), with more in some form of development. Ken Liu Liu has also written an epic fantasy novel series, The Dandelion Dynasty , which he describes as silkpunk . The series
3186-515: The term speculative fiction to be used instead for those that are more "serious" or "thoughtful". Some scholars assert that science fiction had its beginnings in ancient times , when the line between myth and fact was blurred. Written in the 2nd century CE by the satirist Lucian , A True Story contains many themes and tropes characteristic of modern science fiction, including travel to other worlds, extraterrestrial lifeforms , interplanetary warfare, and artificial life . Some consider it
3245-470: The time of writing technologically impossible, extrapolating from present-day science...[,]...or that deal with some form of speculative science-based conceit, such as a society (on Earth or another planet) that has developed in wholly different ways from our own." There is a tendency among science fiction enthusiasts as their own arbiter in deciding what exactly constitutes science fiction. David Seed says it may be more useful to talk about science fiction as
3304-490: Was adapted into the short film Real Artists (2017) by Cameo Wood. His short story "Good Hunting" was adapted into an animated short as part of Netflix 's Love, Death & Robots series (2019). Several of the stories in The Hidden Girl and Other Stories were adapted for the animated Pantheon . Liu's short story collection The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (2020) explores ideas such as tradition and progress,
3363-404: Was influential on later filmmakers , bringing a different kind of creativity and fantasy . Méliès's innovative editing and special effects techniques were widely imitated and became important elements of the cinematic medium . 1927's Metropolis , directed by Fritz Lang , is the first feature-length science fiction film. Though not well received in its time, it is now considered
3422-480: Was known for its embrace of a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, and a highbrow and self-consciously " literary " or " artistic " sensibility . In 1961, Solaris by Stanisław Lem was published in Poland . The novel dealt with the theme of human limitations as its characters attempted to study a seemingly intelligent ocean on a newly discovered planet . Lem's work anticipated
3481-408: Was the first of his three- decade -long planetary romance series of Barsoom novels , which were set on Mars and featured John Carter as the hero . These novels were predecessors to YA novels , and drew inspiration from European science fiction and American Western novels . In 1924, We by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin , one of the first dystopian novels, was published. It describes
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