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In Eureka, what is the plasma/smoke screensaver they use?
I noticed in Season 3, Episode 16 "You Don't Know Jack", that in the background setting of the locked-down lab, there is a type of multi-colored display of swirling plasma/smoke. I was wondering if ...
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Science Fiction as a setting or genre?
Isaac Asimov was famous (in my mind) for writing detective stories that happened to be set in space. I am also a fan of Joss Whedon's Firefly series for separating the science fiction setting from the ...
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What stories are set in George R.R. Martin's 'future history' universe? (the setting for Dying of the Light)
Dreamsongs vol 1 lists the following in the intro to Section 3:
The Hero (mentioned)
Dying of the Light (first novel, mentioned)
Included in Dreamsongs Vol 1
A Song for Lya
This Tower of Ashes
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Is there a novel using a Dyson Sphere as setting?
In the ringworld-novels of Larry Niven the author uses a giant ring around the sun as setting. The concept that is going more extrem in this direction is a Sphere around a sun. That concept is called ...
