Science Fantasy
Science Fantasy
Bible, Science, Creation, Evolution/Atheism, Civilization and Eternity
"To the influence of this Book we are indebted for the progress made in civilization, and to this we must look as our guide in the future". - Ulysses Grant (President, 1869-77, of the U.S)
The Bible has been acknowledged over the years as covering every subject of human knowledge and need now and forever (Finis Dake, Bible scholar); as one incomparably so various and full of concentrated wisdom (Herbert Hoover, President, 1929-33, of the U.S); and as the first and almost the only book deserving of universal attention (John Quincy Adams, the second President, 1797-1801, of the U.S).
Science as the study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world and society agrees with scriptures at the end of the day if thorough observation and quality experiment is carried out. Until the findings of science confirm the truth of scriptures, science is only mid-stream, yet to find anchor. To understand nature the best recourse is the God of Nature who has spoken twice: through nature and through His Word (the Bible), and both align perfectly. Galileo (1564 – 1642) and Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626), two earliest scientists knew this. For Galileo, with his groundbreaking feats in astronomy and physics, the scriptures cannot lie, only the interpreter of it may. And for Francis Bacon, author of modern scientific reasoning: induction, and hence seen as father of modern science, there are two indispensable books – the book of nature and the Bible. TRUE SCIENCE AFFIRMS BIBLE Indeed, all the conclusions of science between 600 BC and 200 AD – regarded as the first age of science – that are still relevant today agree with scriptures.
And between the early Egyptians and Babylonians the abiding feats reached in mathematics, metallurgy, anatomy and astronomy stay in tandem with the laws of creation as found in the Bible. The Babylonians may have given us the true measurements of the lunar and solar cycles, the exact tracing of the paths of the planets, the divisions of the circle into 360 degrees and the designation of constellations, e.g the Zodiac, but all confirm scriptures as given to Moses, Job, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, John and others (except, of course, the perverted and satanic angle of astrology and horoscope).
Sir John F. Herschel (1792 – 1871), the British astronomer who mapped over 525 new nebulae and star clusters told all ages: "all human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are contained in the sacred writings (the Bible)". It is worth recalling that John Herschel, who incidentally invented a method of photographing on sensitised paper, was the son of Sir William Herschel (1738 – 1822), who himself brought home the bacon when he developed a new kind of reflecting telescope, and struck a feat when he discovered the planet Uranus (1781) and mapped well over 2,500 nebulae and star clusters, aside producing a theory of binary star systems and determining the movement of the solar system through space. When men such as John Herschel with such intimidating family scientific record speak, who is one quack scientist in your clime, with their ill-equipped laboratories dotted with gimcrack instruments, to advance the contrary view, feign atheism, and question the veracity of the Bible?
All human discoveries only confirm the truth of scriptures! Science, from the Latin word scientia or its more basic root of scire, means to know. It connotes, understandably, the attempt to know or to explore the unknown; to make it known. In other words science invents nothing but tries to make known (systematic knowledge and organization of verifiable sense experience) what has been there. In this sense science cannot contradict what has been and until it confirms what is, it remains a sailing boat in deep waters. William R. McGrath in A Bible Treasury (1981) said the obvious when he said, "there is hardly a physics textbook of 50 years ago which is not now hopelessly out of date because the former theories have been proven wrong and new theories are being invented all the time to try to explain the new observations about nature. Yet the marvellous thing about the Bible is that it is always up to date and practical and appropriate while yesterday's science textbook ends up in the trash". And until science "touches" what is, we would agree with Martin H. Fischer (1879 – 1962), the German-born US physician, that "all the world is a laboratory to the inquiry mind". At any point science agrees with scriptures inquiry ends.
Recorded in the Bodelian Library, Oxford and signed by 800 scientists of Great Britain is this statement: "we, the undersigned … desire to express our sincere regret that researchers into scientific truth are perverted by some in our own times into occasion of casting doubt upon the truth and authenticity of the Holy Scriptures. We conceive that it is impossible for the Word of God written in the book of nature, and God's Word written in Holy Scriptures, to contradict one another … physical science is not complete, but is only in a condition of progress". This is the truth or fact that the mathematician David Hilbert was inadvertently alluding to when he said that the measure of success of a scientific paper is how many other papers it makes irrelevant. Lewis Wolpert, professor of biology, as Applied to medicine, University College, London, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, recipient of the Michael Faraday Award for the Public Understanding of Science and author of the very influential The Unnatural Nature of Science agrees, in this regard, with Hilbert, when he said: "we all ultimately disappear from the literature, because our work is incorporated and it is gone and forgotten, I'm afraid. It really is a very strange process". The German physicist, Max Planck (1858 – 1947) puts it this way: "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it". At that point it has, no doubt, aligned with scriptures, for all scientific truth aligns with scriptures hence they endure.And so then, the inquiring goes ad infinitum until a proper chord is touched, and that chord is in scriptures: in "Thus saith the Lord"! Scientific exploration that takes the Bible as compass gets to safest of shores.
BIBLE AND FINDINGS OF SCIENCE
The Scripture (every jot and tittle of it) is incontrovertible just as it is infallible. Its account should be believed and taken hook, line and sinker. Just only some few years ago medical science was able to tell us life is in the blood. Moses told us that long, long ago: "… for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof …" - Leviticus 17: 14. It is only in this computer age we are being told that one day or so could not be accounted for in the life of our world, a fact (or secret) Joshua and Hezekiah were privy to many centuries ago as you can see in Joshua 10: 12 and Isaiah 38: 8. It is now that science noticed that our earth rotates, a fact Job knew thousands of years ago (see Job 38: 12-14 where verse 13 refers to the axis and 14 says: ‘it is turned as clay to the seal' which is the figure of the potter's wheel). It is great finding today to discover that the earth is just rotating out there in space. Job knew that long ago: "He stretched out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing" (Job 26: 7).
Meteorologists may have discovered the water circle today but Solomon knew that long ago: "The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again" (Ecclesiastics 1: 6, 7). What news it was to discover that the atmosphere ‘weighs about fourteen pounds per square inch at sea level'. In Job 28: 25 God showed long ago that the air could be measured: "To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure". Who cannot see the hydrologic cycle in Job 36: 27-29 which literarily reads: "For he draweth up the drops of water, they distil as rain from the vapour (mist) thereof, which the clouds (skies) pour down and drop upon man abundantly. Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the thunderings of His pavilion?"
Science has today agreed with Jeremiah 33: 22 that, "THE HOST OF HEAVEN CANNOT BE NUMBERED" when it told us that there are well over 100 billion stars in our own galaxy, and even just as there could probably be billions of galaxies out there in space. Today, science says that the material universe we can behold and all matter in it is made up of little, invisible things called atoms which in turn are made up of smaller particles and that these smaller particles are made up of yet smaller particles which cannot be seen even by electron microscopes but can only be guessed. Whatever difficulty they may have will disappear if they know as we know that: "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear". THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN WERE NOT MADE OF THINGS WHICH DO APPEAR!
Science has agreed with what the Bible said about man being "fearfully and wonderful made" (Psalm 139.4) when it revealed for instance that the body consists of various chemicals – iron, sugar, salt, carbon, iodine, phosphorus, lime, calcium, and others – about 98 ¢ worth. The body has 263 bones; 600 muscles, 970 miles of blood vessels; 400 caps on the tongue for taste; 20,000 hairs in the ears to tune in to all sounds; 40lb. jaw pressure; 10, 000, 000 nerves and branches; 3, 500 sweat tubes to each sq. inch of skin or 40 miles long; 20, 000, 000 mouths that suck food as it goes through the intestines; 600, 000, 000 air cells to the lungs that inhale 2, 400 gallons of air daily; and a telephone system that relates to the brain instantly any known sound, taste, sight, touch, or smell. The heart beats 4, 200 times an hour and pumps 12 tons of blood daily (Finis Dake). David knew more than that thousands of years ago, and he knew too that it is only God that could have done that and, so, did not only acknowledged Him as the Maker but gave all honour and worship to Him.
This writer joins McGrath and others to offer scientists another clue from God's own Word: The great heaps and piles of fossil strata could only have been laid down by the violent combination of water and whirlwind of Noah's flood; the sea-beds found twisted and turned into mountain tops could only have happened by some vast upheaval turning the sea-beds into mountains and the mountains into sea-floor; the many remains of quick frozen ancient animals in ALASKA and SIBERIA, some dashed into pieces and others piled helter-skelter on top of each other in layers with the very TROPICAL PLANTS still in their mouths that they were chewing when tidal waves and instant ice storms overwhelmed them "can only be explained by a vast flood combined with the tilting of the earth's axis to alter the seasons".
Today, many see the planets representing a jig-saw puzzle that could possibly be fitted together! Right as they may be they need know that everything began in the Scriptures. What many know is that God confused the tongues of men when He scattered them after their Babel affront, but most do not know that about the same time or a little after that God also divided the united (physical) earth into continents thereby separating men from men even further. This is what I mean: "And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided..." (Genesis 10: 25). So that we don't miss the point, many years after, 1Chronicles 1: 19 repeated that: "And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided…"
Time and space would fail us to represent the thousand and one ways science (true science) has echoed the truth and veracity of Bible; and that, of course, is the only purpose of science, true science. Indeed, enduring findings of science can only exclaim with David: "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; …" (Psalm 8:3). Yes, true science at the end of the day would readily concur, again, with David: "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night shows knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof" (Psalm 19: 1-6). GOD MADE IT ALL!
Only God, the "Supreme Being of unimaginable power, wisdom, and glory" (Finis Dake) can create the world, the material universes. He did create our solar system and the trillions of solar systems, our galaxy (the Milky Way) with its roughly 400 billion stars (suns) and the starry space with its estimated 100 billion galaxies with their near certain figure of 40 sextillion (40, 000 million, million, million) stars or suns out there in space. God in Genesis 1: 1 (in the dateless past) created them all. God made it all: heavens (Psalm 8: 3; 19: 1; 102: 25; Isaiah 40: 12 etc), planets (Psalm 8: 3; Isaiah 40: 26; 45: 12; 48: 13 etc) all things (Proverbs 26: 10; Colossians 1: 15–18; John 1: 3; Ephesians 3: 9, etc). God made it all, be it the North Star or polestar (the bright star in the constellation Ursa Minor), the Great Nebula (the galaxy nearest ours, the Milky Way) or the faintest and farthest galaxy as captured by our telescopes, from where light could travel to our planet in 400 light years, 700, 000 light years and 500, 000, 000 light years respectively! God created ALL THINGS. The Book of Job alone could be the foundation and guide Cosmology (9: 5-8; 26: 7; 36: 32; 37: 18; 38: 4,8-12,16,39-41; 39: 1-30; 40: 15-24), Astrology (9: 7,8; 38: 7,31-33), Geography (21: 29; 23: 8,9; 26:10) and Meteorology (1: 16-19; 9: 8; 27: 20,21; 36: 27-29,32,33; 37: 1-6,9,10; 38: 12-14,19,20,22,28,29) need to safely forge ahead.
Job tells us in Job 9: 1–12 that the mountains, earth, suns, stars, heavens and constellations are of God. In verse 9 we read: "which maketh Arcturus (a name having to do with the Great Bear – a constellation in the northern hemisphere) Orion (the constellation otherwise called the Giant, and it is said that the space in the sword of the Giant alone is about 2 trillion, 200, 000 billion or 2,200, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000 times larger than the sun) and Pleiades (the name given to the 7 stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus) and the chambers of the south (suspected to be the "abode of the stars of the south or that division of the stars in the southern part of the heavens)" – Finis Dake. We must say with Amos (Amos 5: 8): "seek Him that maketh the seven stars (or Pleiades) and Orion …" God did all that in the dateless past, Genesis 1: 1: "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" – NIV, NKJV etc. It is the fact of nature represented in Genesis 1: 1 and by Job, Jeremiah and others that scientists have just found out when they tell us the earth is been here for some million (or billion) years. Yes, Adam (or modern man) has been here for only about six thousand years, but the earth certainly predates Adam. We desire that for a subject matter another day.
FALSE SCIENCE IS CONFUSION
Science without God or science that denies Him is false science. But science subject to God and The Holy Bible (His only Word to GUIDE MAN) is a servant to mankind. That is what drives humanity positively ahead and to its desired place. Science without God is tyranny and tyrannical to men because it ruins humanity at the end of the day because, in the first place, it is false. While true science dissolves doubts and necessarily affirms scriptures (The Bible), McGrath (1981) says false science ministers or raises questions which it cannot answer. Hear him: "Science without God pretends that man is his own god but only makes him act like a devil. It was German ‘science' which invented ‘higher criticism' of the Bible and robbed an entire nation of morality and faith. What was the result? The ‘scientific' Germans murdered millions, lay Europe in ruins, scientifically practiced genocide, burned human beings in gas ovens and drew off their fat to make soap, used their hair to stuff army cushions, and conducted ‘scientific experiments' with living slaves as guinea pigs".
He reminded that ‘Scientific Marxism' in Russia and China massacred tens of millions, enslaved other millions, tried to exterminate religion, and ended up preaching atheistic dogmas "so intricate and incredible that only a secret police inquisition and constant ‘purge' kept the people subjugated by terror to them". False science is atheism. So called Scientific Marxism is false science. Evolution is another typical false science. God's Word says: "The fool hath said in his heart, ‘there is no God'… " (Psalms 53: 1). Dake thinks atheism is proved to be absurd by: the existence of the universe; the constitution of the body, soul, and spirit of man; the innumerable living creatures in existence (each one so perfect and intricate as to make all chance of its coming into existence automatically, an impossibility); the character of God's works; the preservation and government of all creation (to think that all things came into existence and are being governed by themselves is folly); its ungodly mockery; its powerlessness to help a man to better himself and others; its degrading and immoral influence; the vastness of its unproved claims; and the renouncing of it by its followers in times of affliction and death. He says Sir Francis Newport, Voltaire, Tom Paine, David Hume, Altamont, Ethan Allen and Thomas Hobbes were atheists who among other atheists pleaded for mercy from God and regretted their atheism in their dying hour. Actually, it can take only a seriously demonised man to be so deluded to say God is non-existence. For those so-called atheists who later changed their minds and went to God their Creator in repentance and asked for forgiveness in Christ Jesus well!
The way our own Tai Solarin died may not afford him the opportunity to renounce or recant his atheist position. When Solarin lived this writer gave him the opportunity to retract and think like one created by God when he wrote him (Solarin) to reconcile with his Creator through the only Saviour of the world: Jesus Christ. In his reply he held to his grossly and damnable skewed resolve. Today Solarin cannot even do a rejoinder to this work: and that reminds me that there is God and tells me too that Solarin has long gone to meet, give account to, and receive reward from that God who put him on this earth in the first place. The Bible has said truly, as always: "yea, let God be true, but every man a liar" (Romans 3: 4). Too late for Solarin to make amend, but the Naiwu Osahons in our clime can embrace reason while breath they still have. Back to the foolishness that is evolution!
By the way, which is really easier to believe between the Bible (What God said and of which we attempt here to touch the iceberg) and evolution theories which McGrath summarises thus: supposedly the world originated by the accidental collision of two suns accidentally passing in space, and accidentally or by chance a gob of hot matter was torn off, and accidentally after a few million years cosmic rays fell on some water that had by chance formed on this new planet, and by chance the cosmic rays caused an atom of dead matter to become an atom of living matter ,and by chance this multiplied and became millions of cells and by chance these cells turned into little germs and the germs became amoebas and the amoebas became plants and the plants became animals and the animals became man, all by CHANCE or ACCIDENT! I ask: Is ‘evolution' not the peak of fantasy and satanic confusion? I think it is.
Be it what it calls cosmic evolution or organic evolution, evolution theorists do not deny the first cause. They begin with matter or substance already in existence and believe in primitive nebulosity and powers possessed by molecules (Dake) but cannot fantasise further, that is, how does this (the matter or substance already in existence) came into existence! Do not forget, of course, the fantasy that is the so-called big-bang theory! This is why it is not difficult to agree with McGrath that, while true science brings certitude and is in harmony with the Bible, false science raises questions and multiplies doubts and exalts human reasoning and theory above God.
THE BIBLE AND CIVILISATION
We have said already that the purpose of science at the very best is to echo what is already there in THE BIBLE. Science that has the Bible as compass and anchor is the science that has served the world.At the end of the day true science would have purposefully or inadvertently fallen in line with The Book to drive society positively forward.
That is why Western civilization has owed much to Christianity. Indeed, D. James Kennedy would rightly tell you that modern science grew in only one milieu – Christianity. John Brooke, an Oxford University professor and Jerry Newcombe would even tell you that modern science is a gift from Christianity: what with Blaise Pascal (1623 – 62), Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727), Michael Faraday (1791 – 1867), Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791 – 1872), Matthew Fotaine Maury (1806 – 1873), Louis Pasteur (1822 – 95), Joseph Lister (1827 – 1912) and innumerable others who gave us civilization! All, leading scientists of this age, they were ardent Christians with rare reverence for God and His only Word: the Bible. Indeed, while Blaise was to dedicate much of his life and writings to persuading free thinkers, so-called, of the truth of Christianity, Newton – the foremost scientific mind of all time – would say that the solar system comes from an intelligent being called God.
Mention must be made of Mark Finley's book: Prayer Makes a Difference, where he revealed that medical research has shown a wonderful and startling positive relationship between prayers and healing of patients. God is in control, His Bible, the safeguard and compass! We cannot but agree therefore with Ulysses Grant (1822 – 1885), the 18th President of the United States (1869 – 1877) that to the Bible we are indebted for progress in science and civilization and to it we must look for our guide in the future.
That is to say, the ‘future' dimension is critical in the whole matter. God did not only make all things, He and the heavens do rule – Daniel 4: 25, 26. And if God created and rules He sure has a purpose and direction. AND AN OMNISCIENT GOD HAS BEEN SO GOOD AND GRACIOUS TO LET US INTO HIS MIND AND WHAT LIES AHEAD. HE HAS THUS GIVEN US THE BIBLE! God rules beyond now; He rules and governs eternity; God has the world's trend and future wrapped up in Scriptures. He that knows the end from the beginning has told us the way and course of this world. The safest thing in the entire world to do is "to search out the Scriptures", and that is even Bible admonition. Just as evolutionists don't know how the world began, they don't know beyond the now! They cannot even fantasise!
AND GOD'S TWO GREAT SIGNS
Besides nature; the unquestionable truth of creation by a Divine Being called God; the submission of the findings of true science to the truth embedded in Scriptures; and the great civilised impact The Bible has on the world; there are many other proofs of the existence of God and of the Bible being His only Word to man. But we shall here visit only two: Israel and The Church. The miracle that is Israel and the sign that is ever Jewry wherever they are found and, of course, the way they have survived in a very hostile world for several thousands of years now only has divine explanation, and which explanation we see running through the pages of The Book of Life.
And then, the Church! The great wonder of the Mustard Seed – its growth, uniqueness and resilience in an antagonising world with several gates of hell, who can explain! And derived from that is the truth that degenerated men are being regenerated and made righteous or made to conform to the image of God, and that through the shed Blood of Jesus Christ (the Head of the Church) on the Cross of Calvary.
Israel and the Church are divinely planted here on earth. They point to the glorious fact that God is not only up above but rules in the affairs of men. But more than that: These two plantings of God (ISRAEL and THE CHURCH) are supposed to show the world that there is eternity, which of course, is governed by God. Israel and the Church represent, as it were, God's preparatory stage to bring men into eternity with Him, Adam having failed. God used Adam to populate the earth that now is. The world became so corrupt that Abel, Enoch and Noah were the only highly spoken-of and, or recorded faithful between Adam and Abraham.
In Abraham God decided to make a new deal. He will use Abraham through the promised child, Isaac, and Jacob the beneficiary of that great and perpetual promise, and which promise was finally consummated in Jesus Christ, THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD, to populate and govern (along side the faithful before Abraham, and the Church) the coming world that will never end, under the Headship of Jesus. A time is coming when, through Jesus Christ, all living Israelites shall be saved and that is besides all resurrected faithful Israelites.
Israel is that sand on the seashore that cannot be numbered shown and promised Abraham by God. The Church is those innumerable stars shown and promised Abraham by God. Israel and the Church are planted in time and grow into eternity. They are the plantings of God and He is watching over them. There is nothing any man; any satanic concert and confederacy can do to stop that. Men can only do well for themselves if they come to God's Christ (Jesus, the Man of Calvary) while there is still time. That is the only guaranty now to partake in that Abraham's perpetual promise, that we see in Israel and the Church today but sure to be ushered into eternity with God. That is the only solution, failing which is inviting eternal damnation: And the Bible is incontestable and infallible in all matters: from creation to eternity.
Of the Bible (and hence by extension, the Church) Napoleon Bonaparte is most instructive on several scores when he said: "the Bible is more than a book: it is a living being with an action; a power which invades everything that oppose its extension". That must be food for thought for all self-proclaimed enemies of Jewry and the Church. As we approach the end of time, we just hope Jacque Chirac and those after him will allow the greatest Frenchman ever to inform and educate them about the Bible; and that is parenthetical!
The more of the Bible pages scientific minds and governors and potentates peruse the better will be the nations and the more of its truth you and I imbibe and of its author, Jesus Christ, we know and become, the better is our station beyond civilization: eternity.
About the Author
Eferovo Igho is a Nigerian political scientist and had postgraduate training in journalism. A media consultant, he is a secular and Christian writer. He has been extensively published by leading Nigerian dailies including the old Daily Times, The Guardian, Vanguard, Daily Independent and by regional and community papers, and had an op-ed column stint with Daily Independent. As a Christian writer he has also been equally widely published and had a Christian column stint with the National Daily Mirror and Niger Delta Inquirer (the latter now off the streets). Igho is member and contributing author to great media websites. His secular and Christian works have been greatly syndicated; just as his research work in science, astronomy, space science (with Bible illuminating the way) has been published by leading science groups such as NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (in Science), Scientist of the Year, SCIENCE BLOGG, Lois Bigham, Telescope, Galaxy Science/Magazine Back Issues Online Now, and many others.
When it comes to science fantasy, where do you draw the line?
Would having elves flying on dragons and wielding guns in a futuristic city be too much for you?
By science fantasy, I mean a story that draws from science fiction and fantasy. And yes, I know it's been done before, I just want to here where it gets unbearably weird for you. Any thoughts? Thanks! Sorry with all these questions. This is for a bit of research, nothing I'm personally writing.
Those stories that can't be classified in a specific genre because they have key elements of more than one are called "speculative fiction"
Science fiction genre is characterized by the futuristic technology, complex star systems, a set physical law of nature that usually coincides with Earths, and always has some form of biochemical fuel or metals or some sort of organic material like that.
Fantasy genre is far less realistic, doesn't need physical laws in order for readers to suspend their disbelief, uses an unrealistic magic system that isn't explained by technology or science (unlike science fiction), that has creatures based on or directly from mythology, and that basically uses mystical and surreal elements in the story. It's also characterized by a quest of some sort.
I think you will lose me with elves riding dragons while unloading acid rounds into giant slugs from another planet. Nope, sorry. I will never go beyond using crystals or some organic material as an energy force for fantasy. As soon as I see anything explainable by science and even remotely technological in a fantasy story then I put the book down. I'm just not open to that, personally. And I doubt most hardcore fantasy readers would be. Just as Sci-fi readers wont want to have wizards in their 8 star solar system made up of gas planets and gas-based organisms.
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Science Fantasy $71.7 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Science fantasy is a mixed genre within speculative fiction drawing elements from both science fiction and fantasy. A definition, offered by Rod Serling, is that science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible. The meaning is that science fiction describes unlikely things that could possibly take place in the real world under certain conditions, while science fantasy gives a veneer of realism to things that simply could not happen in the real world under any circumstances. Another interpretation is that science fiction does not permit the existence of supernatural elements; science fantasy does. Even the usage of this definition is difficult, however, as some science fiction makes use of apparently supernatural elements such as telepathy. This is an absurd distinction. What is the point of trying to pigeonhole stories into increasingly narrow categories? It doesnt help you understand or appreciate these stories any better. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 84 Publication Date: 2010/08/04 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.02 x 0.20 inches |
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Shadowrun Between Science Fiction and Fantasy $96.59 The pieces of the Shadowrun novel series present an interesting problem. Should they be categorized as Science Fiction or Fantasy novels? In order to answer this question we have to know exactly what these two genres represent. Unfortunately their definition is not at all unified. The only thing that we can say for sure is that they do exist. The countless books belonging to either of these genres are proof of that. And still, there is much confusion about them. This is why I feel the need to examine both genres and dispel some of the misunderstandings. In this book I will present the history, criticism and characteristics of Science Fiction and Fantasy. So the majority of my book is not about Shadowrun, but the two important genres. In the second part of my book I present and analyze the Shadowrun series through one of the novels, in order to locate it within the genres and further clarifying the differences between Science Fiction and Fantasy. I recommend this book not just for Shadowrun, Sf and Fantasy fans, but anyone who would like to know more about these genres. Author: Grg, Farkas Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 68 Publication Date: 2008/05/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.14 inches |
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A Literary Symbiosis: Science Fiction/Fantasy Mystery $212.9 A Literary Symbiosis studies the merger of science fiction/fantasy and mystery fiction from historical and critical perspectives. Pierce examines the problems and expectations raised by the various literary labels, particularly as regards definition, theme, conventions, stock characters, and setting. While she admits the difficulties inherent in merging ideaoriented, speculative science fiction with the situationspecific and presenttime oriented mystery story, she argues that the two genres have much in common. The book examines critically the elements of mystery fiction which have been integrated with varying degrees of success, into science fiction/fantasy. This evaluation focuses on individual authors and novels or short stories which contributed to the original modes and to their synthesis. Author: Pierce, Hazel Series Title: Contributions in Political Science Series Number: 6 Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 255 Publication Date: 1983/11/16 Language: English Dimensions: 8.50 x 5.50 x 0.63 inches |
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The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009 Edition $7.79 This inaugural volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty-seven stories by some of the genre's greatest authors including Peter S. Beagle Elizabeth Bear Jay Lake Ian McDonald Sarah Monette Garth Nix Naomi Novik Robert Reed Patrick Rothfuss and many more. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's F&SF MIT Technology Review The New Yorker Tor.com Weird Tales and other top venues The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magic realms and worlds beyond tomorrow. |
Nebula Science Fiction Awards - 2009 in Review
Winners of the Nebula Award for best Best-seller, awarded by the Science Fiction and Fantasy writers of America.
2009 Nebula Award Winner: The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalup
The novel "the windup girl is set in the near future, the 23rd century AD. Global warming has transformed the planet, raising sea levels. Fossils fuels undergo been depleted and field is left in shambles. BioTech Corporations conclude corrupted the life that control food and seed supply with an iron fist. Mercenaries seem replaced ciety. her s armies, the realm is basically a nightmare. The sphere of the windup girl faces many challenges but offers critics an exciting and charming read.
Highly Recommended
Runners up
The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak
The Novel "The Love We Share Without Knowing" is set and japan and spins an enthralling web of tales anywhere a group of children belonging to the suicide club. Outcasts who are forced to live on the edge. It focuses on the adore of student and professor. altogether a decent read but a bit fringe for some people. Decent Read
Flesh and Fire by Laura Anne Gilman
A decisively unique fantasy of magic and wine. Its an odd mix at initially but wine and magic go hand in hand in this fable fable . It tells the fantasy of a vineyard slave and her ability to master the magic of the vineyards. A tale of sabotage and revenge its quite unique but not for everyone.
not Recomended
The City & the City by China Mi?ville
A murder charm science drama tale told by the master teller, China Mi?ville, it focuses on the xenophobia of peoples and the issues it creates. If your down for a deep and introspective read, check it out.
Recomended
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
A instant classic, "Boneshaker" was robbed of its nebula gold star. Blending steampunk mystery and zombies. what more do you want? Stop reading this and read "Boneshaker" you will not be disappointed.
Highly Recommended
Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
Image yourself as a resistance element is a realm dominated by an evil spore species. Its an exciting and mysterious journey through a truly unique and downright story realm. Another Story deserving of the Nebula prize distinctions
Recommended
2009 Nebula award ebook wrap up.
It was a stellar year for science fairy tale and the nebula awards reflect the quality and the diversity of science legend in 2009. If you feel that any of the descriptions or recommendations are incorrect, please feel free to comment or share.
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Eragon (Widescreen Edition) $3.39 While it owes much of its appeal and appearance to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Eragon can stand on its own as an enjoyable fantasy for younger viewers. Faithfully adapted from the bestselling novel by teenage author Christopher Paolini, this boy-and-his-dragon tale offers clean, fast-paced family entertainment without compromising the darker qualities of Paolini's novel (the first in what is k... |
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