Vernor Vinge - 1944) is a mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who is best known for his Hugo award-winning novel A Fire Upon the Deep, and for his 1993 essay "The Technological Singularity", in which he argues that exponential growth in technology will reach a point beyond which we cannot even speculate about the consequences. Vinge published his first short story, "Bookworm, Run!", in 1965 in Analog Science Fiction, then edited by John W. Campbell. He was then a moderately prolific contributor to SF magazines in the 1960s and early 1970s, including adapting two of his stories into a short novel, Grimm's World (1969), and publishing a second novel, The Witling (1975). Vinge came to prominence in 1981 with his novella "True Names", which is one of the earliest stories to present.
Kardashev scale - type II civilization might employ a Dyson sphere or other similar construct in order to utilize all of the energy output by a star, or perhaps more exotic means such as feeding stellar mass into a black hole to generate usable energy. A type III civilization might use the same techniques employed by a type II civilization, applied to all of the stars of a galaxy individually, or perhaps might use other mechanisms not yet proposed. All such civilizations are purely hypothetical at this point. However, the Kardashev scale is of use to SETI researchers, science fiction authors, and futurists as a theoretical framework..
Kaspar Hauser - write a diary. He appeared to flourish in this environment. On October 17 1829, a hooded man tried to kill Hauser with an axe but managed only to wound his forehead. Alarmed officials called for a police escort and transferred him to the care of Johann Biberbach and six months later to Baron von Tucher. Tucher found him employment as a copier in the local law office. The apparent assassination also fuelled rumors about his connection to the house of Baden. British Lord, Philip Henry Stanhope took an interest in him and apparently tried to win his trust by gifts. He also tried to gain custody of him. He transferred Hauser to Ansbach to the care of Johan Georg Meyer. He also hurriedly declared that Hauser was a Hungarian and not.
Venice - Piave (north) Rivers. Venice is the capital of the region of Veneto. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Transportation 3 Places of note 4 Sinking of Venice 5 Miscellaneous 6 Venice in arts and fiction 6.1 Famous Venetians 6.2 English words of Venetian origin 6.3 See also 7.
Kathryn Bigelow - her distinctive style on male-dominated genres like Science fiction, Action and Horror. She was born in San Carlos, California, USA, as the only child of a paint store manager and a librarian. Bigelow entered the cinema by way of the art world, starting her creative life as a painter. She took up formal studies at the San Francisco Art Institute for two years before winning a prestigious scholarship to the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1971. Bigelow entered the graduate film programme at Columbia University where she studied theory and criticism. Her first short film, The Set-Up (1978), is a 20-minute deconstruction of violence in film. After co-directing Mont Montgomery on the biker movie The Loveless (1982), she co-wrote and directed Near Dark (1987). After some other work Bigelow's star.
Kai - and would be understood by most New Zealanders even if not of Maori descent. Kai, Last of the Brunnen G, is an undead assassin on the science fiction television show "Lexx." Technically, Kai died 2008 years prior to the events of "I Worship His Shadow" in a raid against His Divine Shadow's flagship, the Foreshadow. The raid failed and His Divine Shadow destroyed Brunnis 2, the Brunnen G homeworld. Knowing all was lost, Kai rammed the command bridge. He was catapulted out of his small fightercraft and His Divine Shadow personally killed him. Instead of having the carcass incinerated, he had Kai de-carbonized and turned into a Divine Assassin. For 2008 years, he served His Shadow, killing heretics and revolutionaries, until he was called to secure the Lexx from heretics. After.
Karen Connelly - a Canadian poet and travel writer. Her poetry and non-fiction deals with the ideas the interaction of cutlures and languages. She currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Works: The Small World's In My Body - 1990 (Winner of the Pat Lowther Award) Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal - 1992 (Winner of the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction) The Brighter Prison: A Book of Journey's - 1993 One Room in a Castle: Letters from Spain, France, and Greece - 1995 The Disorder of Love - 1997 The Border Surrounds Us - 2000 Grace & Poison - 2001 See also: List of Canadian writers.
Katharine Kerr - Kerr (b. 1944, Cleveland, Ohio) is a science fiction and fantasy novelist, best known for her series of Celtic-influenced sword-and-sorcery novels set in the fictional land of Deverry. Deverry Novels Daggerspell Darkspell (later reissued in an "author's definitive edition") The Bristling Wood (US title; issued in England as Dawnspell: The Bristling Wood) The Dragon Revenant (US title; issued in England as Dragonspell: The Southern Sea) A Time of Exile A Time of Omens Days of Blood and Fire (US title; issued in England as A Time of War) Days of Air and Darkness (US title; issued in England as A Time of Justice) The Black Raven The Red Wyvern The Fire Dragon Science Fiction Resurrection Freeze Frames Polar City Blues Polar City Nightmare (with Kate Daniel) Snare.
Kate Mosse - English writer and television presenter, the founder of the Orange Prize for Fiction. Kate Mosse is the presenter of the BBC4 literary chat show, Readers' and Writers' Roadshow and a well-known figure in the media. A novelist and non-fiction author, she was named European Woman of Achievement in 2000..
Katherine Paterson - adult education course in creative writing. Her awards include the National Book Award (Master Puppeteer, 1977 and The Great Gilly Hopkins, 1979), the Newbery Medal (Bridge to Terabithia 1978 and Jacob Have I Loved, 1981), the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction (Jip, His Story), and the Hans Christian Anderson Medal (body of work, 1998). Katherine Paterson believes children’s books should deal with contemporary, realistic themes. Some of her books feature difficult themes such as death of a loved one, the stresses of foster care, exploitation of workers, and slavery. Katherine Paterson lives in Vermont. Juvenile and Young Adult Novels: Sign of the Chrysanthemum, 1973. Of Nightingales That Weep, 1974. The Master Puppeteer, 1976. Bridge to Terabithia, 1977. The Great Gilly Hopkins, 1978. Jacob Have I Loved, 1980. Rebels of the.
Kazuo Umezu - his famous detailed horror manga style and has since published his comics in every genre from horror to science fiction to humour. His only comic available in English translation is Orochi: Blood. Bibliography: Orochi: Blood Drifting Classroom My Name is Shingo Makotochan Again Iara\ Baptism of Blood Fourteen Years Left Hand of God, Right Hand of the Devil Filmography Drifting Classroom (movie) Blood Baptism (movie) Long Love Letter: Drifting Classroom (TV Drama).
Venus (planet) - They soon came to recognize that both objects represented the same planet, however; Pythagoras is given credit for this realization. In the 4th century BC, Heraclides Ponticus proposed that both Venus and Mercury orbited the Sun rather than Earth. The name Venus comes from the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Because its orbit takes it between the Earth and the Sun, Venus as seen from Earth exhibits visible phases in much the same manner as the Earth's Moon. Galileo Galilei was the first to observe the phases of Venus in December 1610, an observation which supported Copernicus's then-contentious heliocentric description of the solar system. He also noted changes in the size of Venus's visible diameter when it was in different phases, suggesting that it was farther from Earth when it.
Kathy Tyers - in Long Beach, California. She is noted for writing science fiction and has also written a travel book and recorded two folk music CDss with her husband Mark. They currently live in Montana. Tyers graduated from Montana State University with a degree in macrobiology and, after marrying Mark, became certified to teach K-12. When her church opened a private school, she took over teaching the lower grades. In 1979, she retired from teaching to start a family; their son Matthew was born in 1981, and she began writing in earnest two years later. Bibliography of Kathy Tyers: Leave Her, Johnny (1986 CD) Firebird (1987, revised 1999) Fusion Fire (1988, revised 2000) The Very Best Dreams (1988 CD) Crystal Witness (1989) Exploring the Northern Rockies (1991, travel) Shivering World (1991) The Truce.
Kelly Freas - 27 August 1922), the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists," is recognized as one of the most prolific and popular science fiction and fantasy artists in the world. His career spans more than fifty years. Since "The Piper" cover for Weird Tales in 1950, his art has graced the covers of hundreds of books and magazines, including Astounding/Analog from the 1950s through the 1990s; Mad Magazine covers from 1955 to 1962; cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine, Avon, all 58 Laser Books (which are now collectors' items) and over 90 covers for Ace books alone. He was editor and artist for the first ten Starblaze books. He was commissioned to paint the Skylab I insignia design and posters promoting the space program (used by NASA and now hanging in the Smithsonian Institution);.
Ken MacLeod - (born August 2, 1954) is a Scottish science fiction writer living near Edinburgh. His novels are notable for the exploration of socialist, communist and anarchist political themes. He is a friend of Iain Banks and is thanked for his advice in at least one of the latter's books. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Bibliography 1.1 Fall Revolution sequence 1.2 Engines of Light trilogy 2.
Kevin J. Anderson - J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson is a prolific science fiction author. He is best known for his spin-off novels (he has written, or co-written spin-offs for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E, and The X-Files, and is the co-author of the Dune prequels), but he has also written original works with characters of his own creation. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Bibliography (incomplete) 1.1 Star Wars books 1.1.1 with Rebecca Moesta 1.2 Dune prequels 1.3 X-Files books 1.4 as K. J. Anderson 1.5 original 1.6.
Kevin O'Neill - he was working as a colorist on reprint magazines and British children's comics such as Buster and Whizzer and Chips,. when he put in a transfer to the new science-fiction anthology magazine 2000 A.D. On the first ever issue of this seminal British Sci-Fi Comic, the centre image of Tharg is by Mr O'Neill. Under the guidance of editor Pat Mills, O'Neill's irreverent hyper-kinetic style became a mainstay of the book, and he became one of the magazine's most popular creators. Co-creations of O'Neill with Pat Mills include The ABC Warriors, Nemesis the Warlock, and Metalzoic for 2000AD. During the mid-1980s O'Neill's work began appearing in North America. He encountered numerous difficulties with censors (the Comics Code Authority) who were aghast at the quirky yet apparently subversive nature of his artwork..
Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves which he directed and starred in. Many of his latest movie efforts have enjoyed little success. Science-fiction epic Waterworld lost the most money of any movie up to its time. The Postman was another disappointment at the box office. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Trivia 2 Partial Filmography 3 External Link Trivia Costner was cast in the feel-good hit The Big Chill. He was shot in several scenes which were planned as flashbacks, but they never made it to the final cut. He was the friend who committed suicide, the event which the plot of the movie revolves. All that is seen of him are his slashed wrists as the mortician dresses his corpse in the movie's opening scenes. Partial Filmography 2003 Open Range 2002 Dragonfly 2001 3000.
Keith Laumer - 1925 - January 23 1993) was an American science fiction author. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Keith Henson - Keith Henson is famous in the science and science fiction communities as a writer on life extension and cryonics, memetics and, most recently, as an activist against the Church of Scientology. Henson is a founding member of the L5 Society and a life member of the National Space Society. Henson versus Scientology Henson has become of the most bizarre focal points of the ongoing struggle between the Church of Scientology and its critics, often referred to as Scientology vs. the Internet. Henson is a critic of Scientology whose actions resulted in his being convicted under an obscure California law regarding the act of "interfering with a religion." Henson is currently residing in Canada, seeking political asylum based on his belief that his life would be threatened by Scientology if he returned.
