"Catch That Zeppelin!" is a 1975 alternate history short story by American writer Fritz Leiber. It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and...
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practically inedible. 109 years after AM's genocide, Nimdok has the idea that there exists canned food in the complex's ice caves. Despite the lack of...
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Best Short Story in 1974. The only chronological element of the work is that it begins by describing the first day of summer in Omelas, a shimmering city...
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award-winning "The Button Moulder". The short parallel worlds story "Catch That Zeppelin!" (1975) won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the Nebula Award...
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Said the Ticktockman" by Harlan Ellison 1976/1975 Short Story: "Catch that Zeppelin!" by Fritz Leiber 1978/1977 Short Story: "Jeffty Is Five" by Harlan...
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brainwashed Harlequin later reappears in public to announce that he was wrong before and that it is always good to be on time. At the end of the story,...
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Great Expectations, Lonesome Dove, Catch-22, and Charlotte's Web "favorites all, towering masterpieces, books that changed my life". In 2017, Martin confirmed...
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And I thought, "God, that's wonderful. How do you do that?" ... So when I left the carnival that day I stood by the carousel and I watched the horses...
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The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World is a short story collection by American writer Harlan Ellison, published in 1969. It contains one...
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published). Algis Budrys said in 1968 that Niven becoming a top writer despite the New Wave was evidence that "trends are for second-raters". In addition...
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"The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" is a 1968 science fiction short story by American writer Harlan Ellison. It won the Hugo Award...
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by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974) "The Hole Man" by Larry Niven (1975) "Catch That Zeppelin!" by Fritz Leiber (1976) "Tricentennial" by Joe Haldeman (1977) "Jeffty...
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The Broken Sword, one of his best-known works. In 1965, Algis Budrys said that Anderson "has for some time been science fiction's best storyteller". He...
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the Star Trek franchise (he subsequently wrote a book about the experience that includes his original teleplay), his A Boy and His Dog cycle (which was made...
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A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German inventor Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German pronunciation: [ˈt͡sɛpəliːn] ) who pioneered rigid...
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a thing could exist, that one was inside the machine, that the scientist understood the controls, that it was foreseeable that the black hole would be...
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feel that none of the finalists is deserving of the award that year, and in the case that "no award" takes the majority the Hugo is not given in that category...
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by John Herbert McDowell. That November, Delany was a visiting writer at Wesleyan University's Center for the Humanities. That year, Delany wrote two issues...
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fiction novel by British writer Brian Aldiss, composed of five novelettes that were originally serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in...
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members in a period around December 15 through January 31, and the six works that receive the most nominations then form the final ballot, with additional...
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Gaiman, and Iain Banks. After her death in 2018, critic John Clute wrote that Le Guin had "presided over American science fiction for nearly half a century"...
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his brother were still in the local public school to their attempts to catch poison ivy to delay the move—"Then we moved to Philadelphia, a little apartment...
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set in the space age. Scott Bradfield states that Vance "wrote about incomprehensibly far-off futures that weren’t driven by the splashy intergalactic...
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(with similarities to the Roman Catholic hierarchy) investigating a sect that reveres Judas Iscariot. The story deals with the nature and limitations of...
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According to Ellison, it was partially inspired by a fragment of conversation that he misheard at a party at the home of actor Walter Koenig: "How is Jeff?"...
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"Introduction”, "Critical Mass”, 1962 "A Gentle Dying”, 1961 "Nightmare with Zeppelins", 1958 "Best Friend" [as by S. D. Gottesman], 1941 "The World of Myrion...
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much like a romance writer. She used only her initials, C. J., to disguise that she was female at a time when the majority of science fiction authors were...
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ship. Ausfaller informs Shaeffer that if he does not attempt the mission, he will be sent to debtors' prison, and that if he attempts to escape in the...
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Leiber's "Ship of Shadows" in 1969, "Ill Met in Lankhmar" in 1970, and "Catch That Zeppelin" in 1975; all three won Hugos, and the latter two also won Nebulas...
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the results from the planetary probes of the 1960s and 1970s, which showed that Venus was completely unlike the hot, tropical jungle usually depicted in...
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