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Art and science fiction

d7lise — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:22:08 +0000

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This is a list of short stories in the SF genre about art. Over time the list will grow.

Isaac Asimov, "Light Verse"
A succesfull artist also owns a robot, and insists that it not be touched.

Paolo Bacigalupi, "The Fluted Girl"
A human being can be reimagined as a musical instrument.

J.G. Ballard, "Prima Belladonna"
This shop has singing flowers. Especially the big orchid is good.

Lee Killough, "Bête et Noir"
Method acting benefits from a new drug and creates a new kind of theatre.

Pat Murphy, "Art in the War Zone"
The Artists Collective is attacked by an army and choose a novel weapon from the art of war.

Alastair Reynolds: "At Budokan".
If you can imagine it, we can make it rock and roll.

Norman Spinrad, "The Big Flash"
We need a positive vibe about nuclear weapons, and we've got a band to deliver that vibe.

John Varley: "The Phantom of Kansas".
Weather art. Protagonist is weather artist. Climax under show.

Cats and science fiction

d7lise — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 14:42:07 +0000

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Science fiction short stories featuring cats prominently. 2 persons (N and L) grade the stories from + to -.

David Barr Kirtley: Cats in Victory (N+) (L+)
War between animal people, who have forgotten their origin

Elizabeth Bear: In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns (N) (L)
An enhanced cat is also one of several clues in a murder case.

Greg Bear and S. M. Stirling: The Man Who Would Be Kzin (N-) (L-)
A not very cat-like people.

P. J. Beese and Todd Hamilton: The Pride (N-) (L-)
Not very cat-like man.

Anne Billson: My Day by Jones (L-)
Alien, as seen from the cat's POV.

Damien Broderick: The Beancounter's Cat (N+) (L)
A talking cat in a magical world, or is it?

Fredric Brown: Mouse (L) (N+)
Bill has a cat, and access to the body of a space mouse.

Edward Bryant: Jade Blue (N) (L)
A new invention, and a cat.

Arthur C. Clarke: Who's there (L+) (N)
Boring mission, into the space suit. But wait, something's wrong!

Judith R. Conly: Tales of a Starship's Cat (L) (N-)
The space ship gets a new cat.

Philip K. Dick: The Alien Mind (L+) (N)
The cat fiddles with the steering wheel of the space ship, and the man gets angry.

Melanie Fletcher: Lusts of the cat queen (L-) (N)
Not very much to do with cats.

Carl Frederick: The Spacemice Incident (N-) (L-)
Robot cat, peripheral.

Eduardo Gallego & Guillem Sánchez: I Thought I Saw a Pussy Cat (L-)
The computer is shutting down.

Ursula Le Guin: Schrödinger’s Cat (N) (L)
Thw world is dissolving; there's a cat and a box.

Karen Haber: On the Tip of a Cat's Tongue (L-)
Whodunit, cat not central.

Peter F. Hamilton: The Forever Kitten (L-)
It is not essential that the cat is a kat.

Robert A. Heinlein: Ordeal in Space (L+) (N+)
You can't have a space man, who's afraid of heights.

Naomi Kritzer: Cat Pictures Please (L)
This AI loves cat pictures.

Mercedes Lackey: SKitty 1, SKitty (L+)
A man and his telepathic cat in the local space port. The locals have "mice", but no "cats".

Mercedes Lackey: SKitty 2, A Tail of Two SKittys (L)
Establish local cat teams.

Mercedes Lackey: SKitty 3, SCat (L)
SKitty gets a boyfriend, but where did he come from?

Mercedes Lackey: SKitty 4, A Better Mousetrap (L)
8 new kittens.

Sharon Lee: A Matter of Ceremony (N+) (L+)
It is something very special to be bonded to a cat.

Fritz Leiber: Ship of Shadows (L-) (N-)
The half blind Spar works in a pub, and takes care of the new cat, Kim, who talks and chases mice.

Fritz Leiber: Space-Time for Springers (N+) (L+)
Cat genius analyzes the world.

Glynne MacLean: Vienese Meow (N) (L+)
Schrödinger, from cat's POV.

Anne McCaffrey: Duty Calls (N-) (L-)
Not very cat-like lady.

Ian McDonald: Vishnu at the Cat Circus (N-) (L-)
There are cats, but they aren't very related to the plot.

Sean McMullen: Mother of Champions (N+) (L+)
Big cats intervene, when humans get stupid.

Paul Melko: Dysfunctional Family Cat (N+) (L+)
Everybody's allergic to the wonderful cat.

A.R.Morlan: The Hemingway Kittens (L?)
2 bookstore cats seem very intelligent and have too many toes.

Andre Norton, All cats are gray (L+)
Is there a ghost, and can the cat do something about it?

Andre Norton and Dorothy Madlee, Star Ka'ats 1-4 (L) (N-)
2 children travel with telepathic cats to various adventures on other planets.

Jody Lynn Nye: Virtually a Cat (L+) (N+)
VR cats.

Jody Lynn Nye: Well Worth the Money (L+) (N)
A new kind of space ship is to be tested, by 3 men and 1 cat.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Chimera (L+)
Not being appreaciated as a cat is hard enough, but it gets even harder when you're more intelligent, more like a human being.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch: What Fluffy Knew (N+) (L+)
Only Fluffy knows about the aliens.

Saki: Tobermory (N+) (L+)
The talking cat also solves crimes.

Robert Sampson: Feline Red (N-) (L)
What to do with all them space cats?

Pamela Sargent: Out of place (L+)
Suddenly people can hear the thoughts of aninals. Scientists look into it, without finding an explanation (before the end of the story). Protagonish owns a cat, playing a big part, but there are also a lot of other animals.

Cordwainer Smith: The Ballad of Lost C’mell (N+) (L)
A cat girl, trying to gain rights for animal people.

Cordwainer Smith: The Game of Rat and Dragon (L+)
Our only defense against the enemy is teams of human and cat.

Michael Swanwick: The Little Cat Laughed to See Such Sport (L-)
Cat woman, but not central.

Judith Tarr: Made of cats (L+)
The aliens are invading, again; luckily there's a cat.

A. E. van Vogt: Black Destroyer (L-) (N-)
Not very cat-like animal.

Sage Walker: Hunting Mother (L+)
Half human, half cougar. Colonizing a planet. Mother is dying.

Ralph Williams: Cat and Mouse (L-)
There's a cat, but it doesn't contribute.

Robert Moore Williams: Thompson’s Cat (N+) (L+)
Space mystery from 1952, the cat saves the day

Gene Wolfe, The Cat. (L+)
Cat is transmogrified, and then "haunts" the place.

Not SF:

Italo Calvino: Autumn: The Garden of the Stubborn Cats
Fantasy. (The cats own a house.)

David Drake: Bullhead
Fantasy

M. J. Engh: The Tail
Fantasy

TCA Lakshmi Narasimhan: Clay Cast Cats
Fantasy.

Mike Resnick: Travels with my cats
Magic realism.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Scrawny Pete
Crime story.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch: Strays
Crime story.

Not about cats:

Carl Frederick: Extra Cheese for the Laboratory Mouse
No cats.

Carl Frederick: We Are the Cat (N-) (L-)
Schrödinger.

Terra LeMay: Shrödinger’s Pussy
Schrödinger.

Books:

Pet Plague 0 - Altered Humans

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Feel free to leave a comment, if you know of any others.

Religion and science fiction

d7lise — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:44:46 +0000

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religion

Isaac Asimov, "Reason"
This robot creates a new religion.

Isaac Asimov, "The Mayors"
A scientific culture can tame a more primitive one, claiming science is actually religion.

David Barr Kirtley, "Cats in Voctory"
The memories of the past have turned into a religion.

James Blish, "A Case of Conscience"
Is this planet paradise?

Anthony Boucher, "The Quest for Saint Aquin"
A priest is looking for the body of a dead saint. Meanwhile a robot ass asks him about his faith.

Ray Bradbury, "The Fire Ballons"
MIssionaries come to Mars to convert the local people, if it's possible. Maybe Christ needs to look like a blue sphere here.

Arthur C. Clarke, "The Nine Billion Names of God"
This religion believes, that the world will end when all the names of God have been written down.

Arthur C. Clarke, "The Star"
The supernova of this star has religious significance to us.

Greg Egan, "Oceanic"
This planet was colonized thousands of years ago. Now the story of that colonization only survives as religion. The story also illustrates how religion and science are 2 different ways of thinking.

George R.R. Martin, "Song for Lya"
Is a local religion an advanced group mind, or just a complicated way to commit suicide?

George R.R. Martin, "The Way of Cross and Dragon"
A local version of Christianity has a Saint Judas and dragons.

James Morrow, "Auspicious Eggs"
Births are few, far between and declared holy by the Catholic church. Priests help in this endeavour by drowning children, who will never become parents anyway. Do you know any more?

Norman Spinrad, "Deus X"
Uploaded people and artificial intelligences are common. The Catholic church has to decide whether these entities have souls.

H.G. Wells, "The Lord of the Dynamos"
I tell you, this piece of machinery is God.

SF topics

d7lise — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:42:18 +0000

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Lists of texts, that are science fiction AND something else.
A list of lists
Alternate history (Uchronia)
Anarchism and science fiction
* Art and science fiction
* Cats and science fiction
Economists, Science fiction novels for
Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia
Math Students, Science Fiction for
* Religion and science fiction
Do you know of any other lists?

English science fiction

d7lise — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:36:37 +0000

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My wee page about science fiction in English.

SF topics

Typiske sprogfejl

d7lise — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:53:27 +0000

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ordbog

Eller rettere: her er den korrekte oversættelse.

Engelsk / dansk

- novel / roman
- novelette / langnovelle
- novella / kortroman
- short story / novelle

Danske forfattere på dansk wikipedia

d7lise — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:56:32 +0000

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Er alle disse danske sf-forfattere på dansk wikipedia?

Anders Bodelsen	har i dag en kort artikel, der ikke nævner sf
Cecil Bødker	har i dag en kort artikel, der ikke nævner sf
Ib Henrik Cavling	har i dag en kort artikel, der ikke nævner sf
Johannes Donnerstag	ingen artikel
Inge Eriksen	halvlang artikel, link til sfc
Tage Eskestad	ingen artikel
Arne Herløv Petersen	nævnt som forfatter til og oversætter af sf, uden detaljer
Dennis Jürgensen	sf nævnes uden detaljer
Merete Kruuse	ingen artikel
Patrick Leis	ingen artikel
H. H. Løyche	ingen artikel
Svend Åge Madsen	sf nævnes uden detaljer
Niels Gustav Meyn	kort artikel, sf nævnes ikke
Ib Michael	halvlang artikel, sf nævnes ikke
Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff	virker som en nogenlunde fornuftig artikel
Niels E. Nielsen	fyldig artikel, sf fylder meget
Bjarne Reuter	halvlang artikel, sf nævnes kort
Bernhard Ribbeck	ingen artikel
Palle Juul Holm	ingen artikel
Johan Springborg	ingen artikel
Dorrit Willumsen	halvlang artikel, sf nævnes kort

Forfattere der har udgivet mindst to sf-bøger (hvilket i enkelte tilfælde tolkes som én bog + noveller i forskellige samlinger, men altså i bøger, ikke fanzines, ugeblade eller lignende):

Johannes Allen
Sally Altschuler
Carl Bang
Søren K. Barsøe
Robert C. Berg
Danny Biltoft Davidsen
Anders Bodelsen
Per Borgaard
Christian Hviid Bredahl
Michael Buchwald
Cecil Bødker
Kenneth Bøgh Andersen
Ib Henrik Cavling
Johannes Donnerstag
Peter Dürrfeld
Martin Elmer
Inge Eriksen
Tage Eskestad
Herluf Th. Flensborg
Jesper Green
Alf Grostøl
Bent Haller
Erik Hansen
Arne Herløv Petersen
Sven Holm
Knud Holten
Søren Vagn Jacobsen
Nis Jakob
Søren Jessen
Ole Juul
Palle Juul Holm
Dennis Jürgensen
Ejler Jørgensen
Klaus Kjøller
Jørgen Knudsen
Merete Kruuse
Brian Roland Larsen
Ole Henrik Laub
Patrick Leis
Jørgen Lindgreen
Mogens Lyhne
H. H. Løyche
Svend Åge Madsen
Niels Meyn
Ib Michael
Carl Muusmann
Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff
Niels E. Nielsen
Arne Ossian
Carsten Overskov
Bo Rand Jørgensen
Niels-Ole Rasmussen
Bjarne Reuter
Bernhard Ribbeck
Grete Roulund
Peter Rønnov-Jessen
Otto Schrayh
Johan Springborg
Thorstein Thomsen
Jon Brændsgaard Toft
Michael Toubro
Mogens Wenzel Andreasen
Dorrit Willumsen
H. O. Østergaard

Dansk science fiction

d7lise — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:09:10 +0000

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Danske forfattere på dansk wikipedia
Typiske sprogfejl