This New Scientist article by Leah Crane is a plot-device-generator gift for science fiction writers. It begins: “Travel far enough in the universe and you could end up back where you began. Measurements from the Planck space observatory have shown that the universe might be shaped like a sphere rather than a flat sheet, which […]
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Early computer-based analysis of scifi
In 1977, William Sims Bainbridge and Murray M. Dalziel wrote “New Maps of Science Fiction.” Published in Analog Yearbook [1977, pp. 277-99], it was one of the first carefully done computer-based social sciencey analyses of science fiction. The essay says (among other things): Our computer has generated many more maps of science fiction, enough for […]