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The science fiction magazine has played a unique role in the development of this fiction, functioning partly as a medium for publication and partly as a forum for ongoing debate about the nature of this fiction. SF pieces were being published in a range of popular magazines by the 1890s, but the first SF-dedicated periodical was Amazing Stories, founded in 1926 by Hugo Gernsback. The opening issue identified a tradition by publishing tales ..
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An important revision of the traditional image of the spaceship was made in Anne McCaffrey's Helva stories, beginning in 1961 with The Ship Who Sang. This series is set in a future when severely disabled children are given the chance to become starships by becoming enclosed in a metal shell connected directly to their brain. This is an enabling procedure involving 'schooling' (not programming) and complex neural and sensory connections bein..
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Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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