The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

written by William Kotzwinkle based on a screenplay by Melissa Mathison. William Kotwinkle most popular works to date are E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial and The Bear Went Over the Mountain. He won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1977, and he has also won the National Magazine Award for fiction. The book was first published in the United State by Berkely Book, New York, 1982 and is copyrighted 1982. This edition first published by Penguin Books 2002 and distributed by Pearson Education…

failures of religion and science to improve our lot, the nature of art as artifice rather than truth, and the way events occur randomly in a world where we desperately grasp for order and meaning” (Hobby, n. page.). In 1951, Vonnegut moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, but then moved again to west Barnstable, living on Cape Cod for 20 years. In 1952, Vonnegut's first novel, “Player Piano,” wa published by Scribner’s and his other pieces have been accepted into numerous magazines like…

Modern science-fiction films vividly illustrate modern social issues and current attitudes toward the future. Based on the short story “Super Toys Last All Summer Long,” “Artificial Intelligence” takes place in the end of the 21st century at the United States of America. Spielberg 's film raises many questions: foremost among them, what does it mean to be a person? Degree of personhood is the status of how much a thing is a person depending on certain qualities. This theory concerns with…

I graduated in May 2013 with my Baccalaureate of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies from West Texas A&M. During my studies, I realized I enjoy the challenge of learning new skills. What I appreciate the most from my time spent in college are all the wonderful relationships I built with my classmates and teachers. Networking with fellow teachers has helped guide me through the difficulties which hovered over me even to this day. After a minor setback in college, I discovered I have a difficulty…

held a fascination with extraterrestrial life. Science fiction tales were written in the second and tenth centuries (Joy and “Satire or the First Science”). Crop circles were claimed to be found in medieval times (Radford). Searches for canals built by martians were carried out more than two hundred years ago (Simon). The fascination with alien life integrated itself into human culture and as it changes, the beliefs change as well. Science fiction allows people to expand their imagination and…

pop culture: the comic book, science fiction film, and 1960’s television programs. It’s a clever way to sensitize the Hispanic-American readers in the United States about the complicated series of tragedies that the Dominican Republic has had to face over the years”(Contreras 5). Diaz’s talent to combine different genres is expressed in the novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, because it possesses a seemly flawless transition between fantasy, science fiction, and comic books, which is…

The novel is at once one of the most diverse, one of the most complex and one of the most popular of literary genres. As Andrew Michael Roberts defines in Introduction: The Novel as a Genre, A genre of written prose fictional narrative… is characterized by a strong interest in plot; by a degree of psychological and/or social realism, and frequently by the presence of elements of moral, political or social comment. (Robert 150) The English Novel, from its beginning in the late seventeenth and…

one” (Atwood 11). The triffids are just fantasy creatures like dragons so in that world, the consequences caused by these creatures seem vague and unreal. When being asked about the realism of science fiction in The Guardian, the author Kim Stanley Robinson also said that "I think I do science fiction because I feel like if you’re going to write realism about our time, science fiction is simply the best genre to do it in” and as a representative of science fiction films, the series fails to talk…

develop around the 1820s and 1860s from many authors. Edgar Allan Poe was one of these authors. His suspense, horror, and thriller made his short stories well-known. Because of his rare and unique style of writing, he influenced the horror, fantasy and science fiction genres. Poe was very passionate in his writing, and he continued to push forward even though he went through many tribulations. Once he passed away, he was named with an award called The Edgar Allan Poe Award. It was named after…

Reading Self Reflection This year, I started 23 books and finished 22 of them. This year I read a mix of realistic fiction, historical fiction, mystery, biography, non-fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and auto-biography. My three favorite books this year were “The Martian”, “What If?”, and “The Book Thief”. “The Martian” is my favorite book this year because of the mix of science, perseverance, and determination in the writing, I also like the main character's traits and role in the book.…