At first glance, the Isaac Asimov’s novels and short stories belonging to the robots series can be read independently. The short stories.However, my first advice is to read some short stories before the novels, to familiarize with positronic robots … Lire la suite... |
Gregory Benford
Birth : 30 January 1941 in Mobile, Alabama (U.S.A.) Gregory Benford is a physicist, plasmas specialist, and teach physics to the Irvine University in California. In the field of science fiction, he excels particularly in hard science. His most … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Utopia
Utopia is a perfect society with an idealised political regime in which some people live in harmony. However, although it is perfect, an utopia can be terrifying (Brave New World by Aldous Huxley or Nineteen-Eighty-Four by George Orwell) because … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – FTL
F.T.L. is the initialism for “Faster Than Light”, an adjective designating objects travelling at a higher speed that the one of light. Matching words: Hyper-luminous, Hyperspace… Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Gynoid
In the usual acceptation of the word in science fiction, a gynoid is a humanoid robot with a woman appearance, in opposition to the android which has the appearance of a man. Matching words: Artificial intelligence, Android, Cyborg… Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Turing test
Proposed in 1950 by the computer engineer and mathematician Alan Turing, the Turing test seek to determine if a machine can be consider as an “intelligent” one. It consist with a conversation (vocal or transcribed) between the tested machine and … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Warp
The Warp (distortion, deformation of space-time) propulsion is an hypothetical (but under study) technology allowing hyper-luminous travels. In fact, the spaceship is moving less quickly than light, but in a deformed space-time where the distance to travel is shorter than … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Hyper-luminous
Hyper-luminous, supra-luminous or super-luminal, are adjective qualifying every object travelling faster than light. Matching words: Ansible, FTL, Hyperspace, Tachyon, Warp… Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Hyperspace
The hyperspace is a notion invented by science fiction authors to free themselves from the limit of the light speed in our universe, which makes the space travels (especially interstellar) very very long. So the hyperspace is a “parallel space” … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Humanoid
An humanoid is a creature or an artificial being whose form remains the one of a human being (typically: one torso, two arms, two legs, one head). The resemblance can be either very far or very close (so we speak … Lire la suite... |
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