The Science in Science Fiction

The Science in Science Fiction. Peter Nicholls, gen. ed. David Langford and Brian Stableford, contributors. New York: Knopf, 1983. For reprints, translation, and reviews, see Internet Speculative Fiction Database, as of April 2023, here.[1]

Deals directly with a number of S. F. narratives. Useful sections on generation starships, space habitats, alien societies (including social insects), "Intelligent Machines" (including cyborgs and [AI] robots), "Pantropy" (adapting humans to alien environments), and eutopias and dystopias.

Not to be confused with The Science In Science Fiction: 83 SF Predictions That Became Scientific Reality by Robert W. Bly (2005), reviewed, pretty negatively, by Thomas J. Thomas J. Morrissey, SFRA Review #275 (Jan./Feb. 2006): 11-12, as of April 2023 listed but not available to RDE, an SFRA member, here[2]; nor James Gunn's essay, as of April 2023, cited on Internet Speculative Fiction Database here.[3]

RDE, Title, 17Aug19; title disambiguation attempt 23Ap23