In 1964, the radio astronomer Nikolaï Kardashev created a scale to classify civilizations, formed with three categories, depending on the use of their resources: Type I: a “type I” civilization is able to use 100% of the available power… Lire la suite... |
Category: Dico S.F.
Dico S.F. – Bram Stoker award
The Bram Stoker award, created in 1988 in respects to the Dracula author, is equivalent to the Nebula award for horror stories. It is attributed every year by a jury of professional members of the Horror Writers Association to previous … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Fix-up
A Fix-up (or fixup) is a collection of short stories from a same author around a same theme. Written independently from each other at very varied dates, they are reunited in the same collection and organized to give the impression … Lire la suite... |
Dicos S.F. – Three laws of robotics
Imagined by Isaac Asimov as soon as 1939, and written under their current form by John Campbell Jr. in 1950, the famous Three Laws of robotics are firmly ingrained in the positronic robot’s brains and have for objective to restrain … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Science fiction
Science fiction is a literary, cinematic or televisual genre which wonder about what could be the future or what could have been the past by using present knowledge (scientific, technological, ethnological…) It is distinguishable from Fantastic which contain unexplainable elements, … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Clarke’s laws
In 1962, in Profiles of the Future, Arthur C. Clarke pronounce what we commonly call the Three Clarke’s Laws: « When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he… Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Nebula award
The Nebula award is an award attributed each year since 1965 by the Science Fiction and Fatasy Writers of America association to an innovative science fiction work. This award is attributed only to an American author and reward the four … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Hugo award
The Hugo award is a prestigious award attributed every year since 1939 to the best anglophone stories of the previous year during the Word Science Fiction Convention. The categories are very diversified (there are 17 of them!) in very … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Dyson sphere
A Dyson sphere is a space structure imagined in 1959 by the physicist Freeman Dyson, constituted by an artificial sphere entirely surrounding a star to collect all its radiations for energetic and industrial endings. Frequently, in S.F., the spherical form … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Stanford torus
A Stanford torus is a space structure constituted with one or two rings (torus) which would spin around to simulate the terrestrial gravity. A 1 mile diameter torus and rotating at 1 RPM could produce a gravity equivalent to the … Lire la suite... |
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