Recommended Books for Teens
Recommended books for teens: Out of millions of books, these are my personal favorites–books that captivate interest and will nurture a love of reading.
Tag Archive for: sci-fi
Evil Villains: Who’s the Baddest of Them All?
Everybody loves a good villain. But who is the baddest of them all? And what makes the bad guy a really good bad guy? In other words, what are the qualities that make a character we can all enjoy hating?
Survival Tips: Something Positive
A few survival tips to get through the pandemic. Something positive. Something inspired by science fiction.
Hard Science Fiction: Diplomacy Versus Arrogance
Mike McCrory uses hard science fiction book Battlefield Earth to compare the Psychlo arrogance to the use of moral diplomacy.
Matthew Pierce / FlickrWhich Sci-Fi Books Inspired the Iconic Apple iPod, iPad and Earbuds?
Battlefield Earth: A return to the Golden Age, written after the genre of science fiction had time to define itself.
Can Sci-Fi Novels Help Motivate STEM Learning?
Science fiction is often unfairly compared with fantasy books for educational uses. This is a weak analogy because the two genres are so very different. The two are only related in that they both fall under a larger genre known as speculative fiction and are found in the same section in bookstores.
Conspiracy for a Better World Snapshot: A.E. van Vogt
Battlefield Earth was dedicated by L. Ron Hubbard to Robert A. Heinlein, A. E. van Vogt, John W. Campbell, Jr. and “all the merry crew,” a list of over 80 names! Hubbard states, “They are all worth rereading, every one.” This blog is to help shed some light on A.E. van Vogt’s contribution to that “golden age of science fiction.”
Conspiracy for a Better World Snapshot: John W. Campbell, Jr.
This is next in my series on L. Ron Hubbard’s dedication in Battlefield Earth to “all the merry crew” of what became known as America’s Golden Age of Science Fiction. And as Hubbard stated, “They are all worth rereading, every one.” And one prominent name is John W. Campbell, Jr.
Conspiracy for a Better World Snapshot: Arthur C. Clarke
This is my second blog in a series on L. Ron Hubbard’s dedication in Battlefield Earth to “all the merry crew” of what became known as America’s Golden Age of Science Fiction. And as Hubbard stated, “They are all worth rereading, every one.” And one prominent name is Arthur C. Clarke.
A Short History of the Birth of Sci Fi
Science fiction, also known as SF or sci-fi, is part of a larger genre within fiction known as speculative fiction. Speculative fiction not only includes science fiction, but also fantasy and horror as well.