Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book - Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book Winners of the Hugo Award for best non-fiction book. (After 1998, the category was retitled best related book. Awards given in one year are for works released during the previous calendar year. Awards given in one year are for works released during the previous calendar year. 1980: The Science Fiction Encyclopedia edited by Peter Nicholls 1981: Cosmos by Carl Sagan 1982: Danse Macabre by Stephen King 1983: Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction by James Gunn 1984: Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. III by Donald Tuck 1985: Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction by Jack Williamson 1986: Science Made Stupid by [[Tom Weller] 1987: Trillion Year Spree by [[Brian Aldiss] with David Wingrove 1988: Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder.
Interactive Fiction Competition - Interactive Fiction Competition The Interactive Fiction Competition is an annual competition for works of interactive fiction that has been held since 1995. It is intended for fairly short games, as judges are only allowed to spend two hours playing a game before deciding how many points to award it. The first competition had separate sections for Inform and TADS games. Subsequent competitions have not been divided into sections and are open to games produced by any method. Entries are required to be released as freeware or public domain, reflecting the general non-profit ethos of the IF community. The following is a list of winners to date: 1995 (Inform): A Change in the Weather by Andrew Plotkin 1995 (TADS): Uncle Zebulon's Will by Magnus Olsson 1996: The Meteor,.
Fan fiction - Fan fiction Fan fiction (commonly abbreviated to "fanfic") is fiction written by people who enjoy a film, novel, television show or other dramatic or literary work, using the characters and situations developed in it and developing new plots in which to use these characters. Fan fiction has come to the fore especially since the rise of the Internet, where it flourishes despite the possibility that it infringes the copyright of the film, book, TV show, or other media on which it is based. Nowadays the largest form of fanfic is based on Japanese anime/manga series, followed by those based on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, American cartoon series, and science fiction serials. Popular television series which have inspired fanfic include Star Trek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer..
Fiction - Fiction Fiction is the term used to describe works of information created from the imagination. This is in contrast to non-fiction, which makes factual claims about reality. Fictional works -- books, pictures, stories, fairy tales, fables, movies, comics, interactive fiction -- may be partly based on factual occurrences but always contain some imaginary content. Fiction is largely perceived as a form of art or entertainment, although not all fiction is necessarily artistic. Fiction may be created for the purpose of educating, such as fictional examples used in school textbooks. Fiction is also frequently instrumentalized by propaganda and advertising. Fiction may be propagated by parents to their children out of tradition (e.g. Santa Claus) or as a form of control (cf. fairy tales). Frequently fiction is deliberately.
Fictional character - fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. More accurately, a fictional character is the person or conscious entity we imagine to exist within the world of such a work. In addition to people, characters can be aliens, animals, gods or, occasionally, inanimate objects. Characters are almost always at the center of fictional texts, especially novels and plays. It is, in fact, hard to imagine a novel or play without characters, though such texts have been attempted (James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is one of the most famous examples). In poetry, there is almost always some sort of person present, but often only in the form of a narrator or an imagined listener. In theater and movies (except animations), fictional characters are played by actors. In animations, they.
Karen Connelly - is a Canadian poet and travel writer. Her poetry and non-fiction deals with the ideas the interaction of cutlures and languages. She currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Works: The Small World's In My Body - 1990 (Winner of the Pat Lowther Award) Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal - 1992 (Winner of the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction) The Brighter Prison: A Book of Journey's - 1993 One Room in a Castle: Letters from Spain, France, and Greece - 1995 The Disorder of Love - 1997 The Border Surrounds Us - 2000 Grace & Poison - 2001 See also: List of Canadian writers.
Kate Mosse - English writer and television presenter, the founder of the Orange Prize for Fiction. Kate Mosse is the presenter of the BBC4 literary chat show, Readers' and Writers' Roadshow and a well-known figure in the media. A novelist and non-fiction author, she was named European Woman of Achievement in 2000..
Katherine Paterson - adult education course in creative writing. Her awards include the National Book Award (Master Puppeteer, 1977 and The Great Gilly Hopkins, 1979), the Newbery Medal (Bridge to Terabithia 1978 and Jacob Have I Loved, 1981), the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction (Jip, His Story), and the Hans Christian Anderson Medal (body of work, 1998). Katherine Paterson believes children’s books should deal with contemporary, realistic themes. Some of her books feature difficult themes such as death of a loved one, the stresses of foster care, exploitation of workers, and slavery. Katherine Paterson lives in Vermont. Juvenile and Young Adult Novels: Sign of the Chrysanthemum, 1973. Of Nightingales That Weep, 1974. The Master Puppeteer, 1976. Bridge to Terabithia, 1977. The Great Gilly Hopkins, 1978. Jacob Have I Loved, 1980. Rebels of the.
Kim Stanley Robinson - identified as a leading member of the "humanist", or literary, camp of science fiction authors in the 1980s, but whose Mars trilogy is a solid example of hard science fiction. His fiction frequently delves into ecological and utopian themes with a political sophistication and point of view rarely seen elsewhere in the field. The utopian novels Robinson's utopias are strikingly different in that the society portrayed is dynamic and subject to flaws and outside pressures, rather than the static perfection displayed in more classic utopias, in which literary values take a back seat to the political argument. His utopian novels include the Three Californias trilogy, which consists of the post-disaster novel The Wild Shore (1984, his first), the future dystopia The Gold Coast (1988), and the "ecotopia" Pacific Edge (1990); and.
Kitsch - consumer with a newly acquired class status than to invoke a genuine aesthetic response. Kitsch was considered aesthetically impoverished and morally dubious, and to have sacrificed aesthetic life to a pantomime of aesthetic life, usually, but not always, in the interest of signalling one's class status. Avant-Garde and Kitsch The word became popularized in the 1930s by the theorists Clement Greenberg, Hermann Broch, and Theodor Adorno, who each sought to define avant garde and kitsch as being opposites. To the art world of the time, kitsch was percieved as a threat. The arguments of all three relied on an implicit definition of kitsch as a type of false consciousness. "False consciousness" is a Marxist term meaning a mindset present within the structures of capitalism that is misguided as to its own.
Kim Newman - 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. Recurring interests visible in his work include film history and horror — both of which he attributes to seeing Tod Browning's film adaptation of Dracula at the age of eleven — and alternate versions of history. He has won the Bram Stoker Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award. He was born in London and raised in Aller, Somerset. He studied English at the University of Sussex. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Non-fiction 2 Fiction 3 Related topics 4.
Krypton (planet) - find a new world to live. The idea of Superman's powers being given to him by a "yellow sun" and negated by a "red sun" came from this retroactive explanation of the limitations of the powers of Kryptonians (as the inhabitants of Krypton were known). Krypton (now generally known as "Old Krypton" by Superman's fans and comic book historians) was a super-advanced paradise where science ruled above all. Through the use of science, Kryptonians had freed themselves from all worries, cares, chores, and wars. Robots and computers were used for everything on Krypton, even for determining what career paths the young boys and girls of Krypton would take as they grew up. One Superman story from the 1950s, What if Krypton had not exploded?, depicted life in a setting that epitomized.
James Blish - 29, 1975) was an American author of fantasy and science fiction. Blish also wrote criticism of science fiction using the pen-name William Atheling Jr. Blish trained as a biologist at Rutgers and Columbia University, and spent 1942-1944 as a medical technician in the U.S. Army. After the war he became the science editor for the Pfizer pharmaceutical company. His first published story appeared in 1940, and his writing career progressed until he gave up his job to become a professional writer. Perhaps his most famous works were the 'Okies' stories in Astounding Science Fiction, known collectively as the 'Cities in Flight'. The framework for these was set in the novel They Shall Have Stars. This shows the development of the two essential features of the series. The first was the development.
Janusz Korczak - of major but was assigned to Warsaw after a brief stint in Lodz. He contracted typhus and her mother died of it. In 1926 he let children begin their own newspaper the Maly Pryzeglad, as weekly attachment to the daily Polish-Jewish Newspaper Nasz Pryzeglad. During the 1930’s he had his own radio program until it was cancelled due to complaints of right-wing anti-semites. 1933 when he was awarded the Silver Cross of the Polonia Restituta. 1934-1936 Korczak traveled yearly to Palestine and visited its kibbutzes. That lead to increasing anti-semitic attacks in Polish right-wing press. That also lead to a break with the non-Jewish orphanage he had been working for. Still he refused to move to Palestine even when Wilczynska moved there for a year in 1938. In 1939, when the.
James A. Michener - as Tales of the South Pacific (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948), Hawaii, Centennial, and Alaska. The majority of his over 40 titles are sweeping sagas of many generations in the life of a geographic locale. His non-fiction works include the 1992 memoir The World is My Home and Sports in America..
Jacqueline Lichtenberg - Lichtenberg Jacqueline Lichtenberg is an American science fiction author. Many of her early novels are set in the Sime - Gen Universe, which she first described in a short story in 1969. Her other writings have dealt with fantasy and occult subjects, including articles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She has written a monthly column reviewing and called Science Fiction for The Monthly Aspectarian. Many of her works have been in written in collaboration with Jean Lorrah, with whom she has a business partnership. She is a Star Trek fan and has been actively involved in the Trekkie fan movement. She is one of the Friends of Darkover and her early writing has been mentored by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Bibliography 1.1 Non Fiction 1.2 More Information.
Jacques Godbout - hommes - 1960 La grande murraille de Chine - 1969 Sovenirs Shop - poèmes et proses - 1984 Fiction L'aqarium - 1962 La couteau sur la table - 1965 (translated into English as The Knife on The Table) Salut Galarneau! - 1967 (winner of the 1967 Governor General's Award for Fiction) Hail Galarneau! - 1970 L'isle au dragon - 1976 (translated into English as Dragon Island) Les têtes à Papineau - 1981 Une histoire Américaine - 1986 D'amour P.Q. - 1991 Le temps des Galarneau - 1993 Opération Rimbaud - 1999 Non-Fiction Le réformiste: textes tranquilles - 1975 Le murmure marchaud - 1984 Abécédaier Québécois - 1988 L'écran du bonheur - 1990 L'écrivain de province: journal 1981-1990 - 1991 Le sort de l'Amerique - 1997 Children's Literature Une leçon de chasse.
Jack Cohen (scientist) - reproductive biologist who has worked as a consultant on many science fiction television shows on how to construct plausible alienss. He has also collaborated with Ian Stewart to write deep books on epistemology, and the science of Discworld. For his many services to the series The X-Files, he was affectionately lampooned in the series in the form of UFO-author Jose Chung. Books The Science of Discworld, with Ian Stewart and Terry Pratchett The Science of Discworld II: The Globe, with Ian Stewart and Terry Pratchett Wheelers, with Ian Stewart (fiction) Figments of Reality, with Ian Stewart (non-fiction) The Collapse of Chaos, with Ian Stewart (non-fiction) Evolving the Alien - the science of extraterrestrial life, with Ian Stewart.
Jeffrey Simpson - of Canada's leading literary prizes -- the Governor General's Award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for column writing. He has also won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism. In January, 2000, he became an Officer of the Order of Canada. Born in New York, Mr. Simpson came to Canada when he was 10 years old and studied at the University of Toronto Schools, Queen's University and the London School of Economics. In 1972-73, he received a parliamentary internship scholarship in Ottawa. A year later, he joined The Globe and Mail newspaper. His career with the newspaper began at City Hall in Toronto and with coverage of Quebec politics. In 1977, he became a member of the.
Jerry Cornelius - to write stories about Jerry Cornelius. (to do: give examples) Moorcock hints in many places that Cornelius may be an aspect of the Eternal Champion. Characters from the Cornelius novels show up in much of Moorcock's other fiction: for example, Moorcock's Dancers at the End of Time series has a character called Jherek Carnelian; Una Persson appears in the Dancers series, the Oswald Bastable books, and possibly as Oona in the latest Elric books; and Colonel Pyat has his own non-SF series of books by Moorcock, beginning with Byzantium Endures. The Jerry Cornelius quartet of novels comprises: The Final Programme A Cure for Cancer The English Assassin The Condition of Muzak Other Jerry Cornelius related books: Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius The Adventures of Una Persson and Catherine Cornelius in.
