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Nildram: Plots of Twilight Zone Episodes
Season Three of the twilight zone, thirty-seven episodes at this site--with a summary of each.
IMDb
Internet Movie Database: Frederic Brown
The Online Movie Database IMDb.com provides a brief biography of Brown and links to descriptions of movies based on his stories.
My Hero Project
My Hero: Jules Verne
Jules Verne, who wrote over 80 books during his lifetime, is best known for his "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea." This article includes several images and related links.
Authors Calendar
Author's Calendar: Fredric Brown
This site includes a biography of the writer Fredric Brown. Included towards the end of the article is a list of his books. Good overall and very factual.
Baertracks
Creative Quotations: Rod Serling
This site from Creative Quotations contains quotes from Rod Sterling. This site also includes a very brief biographical sketch of Sterling. An interesting site to check out.
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Zvi Har El's Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon
This site from the Zvi Har El's Jules Verne Collection provides the complete text of Jules Verne's novel "From the Earth to the Moon". This edition contains original illustrations from the 1865 edition.
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Isaac Asimov's Foundations Universe
This site offers art work centered around the futuristic world created by Asimov (1920-1992 CE) and continued by several other sci-fi writers.
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Zvi Har El: Journey to the Center of the Earth
This personal site from the Zvi Har El's Jules Verne Collection provides the complete text of Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth."
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Stewart Resource Centre: 'Ender's Game' Novel Study Guide [Pdf]
This is a novel study unit to accompany the novel ?Ender?s Game? by Orson Scott Card. It has curricular connections, chapter questions, writing topics and evaluation criteria.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Attack of the Killer Cabbage Clones
Do you like to watch outdated science fiction and cheesy horror movies? Many fictional tales of cloned organisms have been created based upon the scientific method for cloning animals or plants. In the real world, the cloning of plants...
American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society: Chemical & Engineering News: Reel Science
Reel Science publishes reviews of movies with a science or science fiction theme. Its aim is to heighten awareness of inaccuracies in the ways science is presented in film, and to promote greater public understanding of true science.
Youngzine
Youngzine: Tribute to Leonard Nimoy Aka 'Dr Spock'
Article and video remembers Leonard Nimoy, the actor best known for his role as Dr. Spock on the science fiction television show Star Trek.
University of North Carolina
Univ of North Carollina: The Twilight Zone (Rod Serling)
This site discusses several aspects of the show, The Twilight Zone, and its creator, Rod Serling. Sections include Rod Serling Career, Concept, and Production, as well as details of the show like Backdrop, Plot, and Audience.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature: Postmodernism: "Harrison Bergeron"
This lesson focuses on the short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut which portrays the year 2081 in a society where all people are equal and the same. Links are provided to the text and a study guide for the story. Students are...
Fantastic Fiction
Fantastic Fiction: w.w. Jacobs: Detailed Bibliography
This site provides bibliographies of science fiction writers, and found here is a thorough bibliography of works by W.W. Jacobs, including novels and short stories.
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Sfwa: Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions
These pages, written by Patricia C. Wrede and published by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, include questions and answers on how to build fantasy worlds in literature. Well organized and extensive.
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Electricity, Frankenstein, & the Spark of Life
Using an online exhibition, investigate how Mary Shelley's horror science fiction story, Frankenstein, reflects the knowledge and studies of electricity, and how those fictional ideas are used in modern medicine.
NASA
Nasa: Innovative Engines
NASA's Glenn Research Center reports on its innovative engines program, namely ion propulsion, a technology that once only powered imaginary spacecraft in science fiction novels. It is now a reality.
SparkNotes
Spark Notes: Ender's Game
SparkNotes provides a literature guide for Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel, Ender's Game. It includes a summary of the novel, analysis of the characters, and discussions of major themes, motifs and symbols.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Parasite Tales: The Jewel Wasp's Zombie Slave
This is stranger than science fiction. The jewel wasp and the cockroach have a disgusting and fascinating parasitic relationship. The jewel wasp stuns the cockroach, and months later, a jewel wasp hatches out of the cockroach. At...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Mysteries of Vernacular: Robot
In 1920, Czech writer Karel Capek wrote a play about human-like machines, thereby inventing the term robot from the Central European word for forced labor. Jessica Oreck and Rachael Teel explain how the science fiction staple earned its...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Is Time Travel Possible?
Time travel is a staple of science fiction stories, but is it actually possible? Colin Stuart imagines where (or, when) this fascinating phenomenon, time dilation, may one day take us. [5:04]
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Writers Write, Inc.: Proper Manuscript Format
Article by science fiction writer William Shunn on the proper way to submit a manuscript to a publisher. A link at the end of the article allows you to see the text in the manuscript form described, allowing for manuscript copy and...
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Macmillan Publishers: Orson Scott Card
Biographical information about Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game and many other science fiction novels.
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