Science, fiction, and Santa Claus: Hollywood creator and consultant perceptions of fictional science in film and television by Jessica L. Davis, Gianna Savoie, Nancy Longnecker

“…This paper, instead, approaches the matter of fictional science in fictional narratives (FiSci) from the perspectives of the individuals creating Hollywood content. …”
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Une constellation nommée Argo – L’errance dans la science-fiction vidéoludique by Jean-Charles Ray, Simon Laperrière

“…To study wandering thus allows to reflect on the intimate links between science-fiction and video games and the ever-furthering frontier of virtual and futuristic worlds.…”
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Losers Don’t Play Videogames. . . Heroes Do: The Remediation of Videogames in 1980s Science Fiction Films by Dawn Stobbart

“…A decade before the first adaptation of a videogame to film (Super Mario Brothers, 1993), computer and arcade videogames were incorporated as subject matter in mainstream Hollywood films such as War Games (1983), The Terminator (1984), and The Last Starfighter (1984), presenting the new medium through a science fictional lens. While these films aired widespread anxieties about the ability of computers and videogames to start global wars and override human social structures and agency, at the same time, they offered a counterpoint to the traditional masculine hero, which this article will explore, situating the adolescent within the historical context of the 1980s, film, and videogames. …”
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GREAT SPACE BATTLES / by Cowley, Stewart, Great space battles author 589209

WANDERING STAR : A ZODIAC NOVEL / by Russell, Romina, 1984-, author 645355

“The Old Stories Had Become Our Prison”: Globalisation and Identity Politics in John Barnes’s Science Fiction Novels A Million Open Doors and Earth Made of Glass by Michael Godhe

“…The article discusses how issues raised by globalisation are represented in John Barnes’s novels A Million Open Doors (1992) and Earth Made of Glass (1998). I will argue that science fiction can work as a model for a futural public sphere, bridging the gap between the humanities and natural science, and enabling a broader public discourse about the societal impacts of science and technology. …”
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De-colonizing the Earth to Re-enact Colonialism on Mars by Alessandra Calanchi

“… In the current rush to Space ‘colonization,’ a term which moved from Science Fiction to reality in just a few decades, it becomes necessary to (re)define not only the borders of the known ‘world’—which projects itself far beyond the galaxy where we live—but also the lexicon of exploration, invasion, and belonging. …”
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The search for living worlds and the connection to our cosmic origins by Barstow, MA, Aigrain, S, Barstow, JK, Barthelemy, M, Biller, B, Bonanos, A, Buchhave, L, Casewell, SL, Charbonnel, C, Charlot, S, Davies, R, Devaney, N, Evans, C, Ferrari, M, Fossati, L, Gansicke, B, Garcia, M, Gomez, DCAI, Henning, T, Lintott, C, Knigge, C, Neiner, C, Rossi, L, Snodgrass, C, Stam, D, Tolstoy, E, Tosi, M

“…One of the most exciting scientific challenges is to detect Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of other stars in the galaxy and search for evidence of life. During the past 20 years the detection of exoplanets, orbiting stars beyond our own, has moved from science fiction to science fact. …”

On temporal scale-free non-periodic stimulation and its mechanisms as an infinite improbability drive of the brain’s functional connectogram by Vinícius Rosa Cota, Vinícius Rosa Cota, Sérgio Augusto Vieira Cançado, Márcio Flávio Dutra Moraes

“…The usage of infinite improbability drive here is obviously a reference to the “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” comedy science fiction classic, written by Douglas Adams. …”
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