Phillip K Dicks was a science fiction writer who wrote "Through a scanner darkly"?
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Really?  You can get a copy of the book right now at Barnesandnoble.com and Amazon.com.  \n\nIn fact, it has been made into a movie to be released in July 2006.  With Keanu Reaves, no less.\n\nBet you anything they will re-relase the book shortly to capitalize on the movie sales.\n\nPlot Summary for A Scanner Darkly (2006) \n"A Scanner Darkly" is set in suburban Orange County, California in the future. It imagines a paranoid world in which it seems two of every 10 Americans has been hired by the government to spy on the other 8 -- in the name of national security and drug enforcement. When one reluctant government recruit (Reeves) is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a journey into the absurd, where outsourced government contractors largely define the social construct, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode, and where not even his girlfriend can be trusted. The film highlights the inconsistencies and ironic consequences of the war on drugs.  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405296/plotsummary\n\nI honestly don't think the government is in the business of giving science fiction writers (or anyone else) heart attacks.  There's real problems in the world to focus on.\n\nHowever, if Keanu anf half of Hollywood keels over, I may have to rethink.
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Fantasy writer. \n\nEvolution is a theory made up by someone.
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1980s Science Fiction\n\nThe 1980s continued the trend of more emphasis on Earth-based, "future life" science fiction movies. The only significant exceptions to this trend were the "Star Trek" series (1980 onwards), "Flash Gordon" (1980), "Outland" (1981), "Dune" (1984), and "The Last Starfighter" (1984). A new trend in this decade was an increasing amount of reliance on "action-adventure" plots with a coincidental "science fiction" setting. Among the more prominent of these were "Outland" (1981), "Blade Runner" (1982), "The Terminator" (1984), and "The Abyss" (1989). I'll have more to say on this topic in the 1990s directory. Again I was unable to cut my list down to only ten, so, I present my "Top 15" science fiction movies of the 1980s.\n\nMovie Clip\n\nFinal Countdown\n(1980 - 104 min) ****\n\nPlot: A modern-day aircraft carrier is time-warped to the night before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and is given the opportunity to stop the attack before it happens. (Based on the novel by Martin Caidin.)\n\nKirk Douglas\nMartin Sheen\nKatharine Ross\nJames Farentino\nCharles Durning\nDirected by Don Taylor\n\nMovie Clip\n\nFlash Gordon\n(1980 - 111 min) ***\n\nPlot: Campy remake of the classic 1930's serial starring Buster Crabbe in the title role. The evil Emperor Ming wages instellar war on Flash and his friends.\n\nSam Jones\nMelody Anderson\nTopol\nMax von Sydow\nOmella Muti\nBrian Blessed\nTimothy Dalton\nDirected by Mike Hodges\n\nMovie Clip\n\nStar Trek: The Motion Picture\n(1980 - 145 min) ***\n\nPlot: The Federation Starship "Enterprise" goes to investigate a powerful alien machine that is approaching Earth with possible deadly intent.\n\nWilliam Shatner\nLeonard Nimoy\nDeForest Kelly\nJames Doohan\nGeorge Takei\nWalter Koenig\nNichelle Nichols\nStephen Collins\nPersis Khambatta\nDirected by Robert Wise\n\nSequels:\n# ST II: The Wrath of Kahn (1982 - 113 min) *****\n# ST III: The Seach for Spock (1984 - 105 min) ***\n# ST IV: The Voyage Home (1986 - 119 min) ****\n# ST V: The Final Frontier (1989 - 107 min) ***\n# ST VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991 - 110 min) ****\n# ST: Generations (1994 - 118 min) ***\n# ST: First Contact (1996 - 110 min) ****\n# ST: Insurrection (1998 - 103 min) ***\n# ST: Nemesis (2002 - 120 min) ****\n\nMovie Clip\n\nOutland\n(1981 - 110 min) ***\n\nPlot: A future law officer uncovers a criminal conspiracy at a mining colony on one of Jupiter's moons.\n\nSean Connery\nPeter Boyle\nFrances Sternhagen\nJames Sikking\nDirected by Peter Hyams\n\nMovie Clip\n\nBlade Runner\n(1982 - 122 min) ***\n\nPlot: A 21st Century lawman tracks down superhuman androids who escaped enslavement. (Based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick.)\n\nHarrison Ford\nRutger Hauer\nSean Young\nEdward James Olmos\nDaryl Hannah\nDirected by Ridley Scott\n\nMovie Clip\n\nE.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial\n(1982 - 115 min) *****\n\nPlot: A cute alien lands near a suburban community and is befriended by a boy who helps him "phone home."\n\nDee Wallace Stone\nHenry Thomas\nPeter Coyote\nDrew Barrymore\nDirected by Steven Spielberg\n\nMovie Clip\n\nTron\n(1982 - 95 min) ****\n\nPlot: A computer jock finds himself trapped in a world inside a computer where he faces a life-and-death arcade game for his life. (One of the first and most extensive uses of computer animation combined with live-action.)\n\nJeff Bridges\nBruce Boxlietner\nDavid Warner\nDirected by Steven Lisberger\n\nMovie Clip\n\nTwilight Zone: The Movie\n(1983 - 101 min) ***\n\nPlot: Remakes of a trio of classic episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series.\n\nVic Morrow (killed during filming)\nScatman Crothers\nKevin McCarthy\nJohn Lithgow\nDirected by John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller\n\nMovie Clip\n\nWar Games\n(1983 - 100 min) **\n\nPl
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*Ender's Game is indeed a great book by a great author. Also I reccomend Madeleine L'Engle, the author of "A Wrinkle in Time" among others.
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Scientology is the belief that we are all aliens, and there's measured levels, blah blah blah.... it's all based upon a science fiction writer's beliefs. L. Ron Hubbard.
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I have been getting  Analog SF&F magazine for many years.When I saw your question, the first thing I thought of was Science Fiction being not-true stories based on some concept of science - like space travel, aliens, other worlds, robots, etc. \nI thought of non-science fiction as horror - monsters, many of Stephen King's stories,  or Fantasy  - fairies,  trolls,\ndragons - like Anne Mc Caffery's books, or even Fairy Tales  - like the Brothers Grimm.\nThe neat thing about Science Fiction is that much of what was Science Fiction 20 years ago, is now Science Fact.\nSome Science Fiction writers are  neuclear physicists,\nsome work for Nasa (I guess they get to see plans for all kinds of new things way ahead of time!) One writer even designed one of the Mars rovers.  We will never leave this planet in my lifetime, so science fiction is the only way I get to 'see' other worlds,  and other species.\nGood Luck with your debate!
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The originator who is the semi-famous science fiction author "L. Ron Hubbard" started it.  Remember the movie "Battlefield Earth"?  it was based on one of his books.   He has been known to say "If you can create your own religion then you would be rich..."  his Dianetics seems to be a mixture of psuedo freudian pop science. It is a cult.
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I've read almost all of Orson Scott Card's books.  Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead are very good books.  However, he lost my interest when he created the duplicate Val and Peter at the end of Xenocide and the last bok in that series is pretty awful (not the writing, the story).   \nThe Philotic connections that allow instantaneous communication by ansible are an interesting theory.  It is nice to believe that we are all somehow connected by invisible threads but I seriously doubt that there is any scientific truth to it.
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While it is theoretically possible, Isaac Asimov wrote in the forward to one of his robot novels that a positronic brain would have no advantages over an electronic brain.  He used the positronic brain in his robot stories because he felt that it sounded "science fictiony".
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well, alot of Lost is based on "Lord of the Flies" and a lot of books written by Plato. If you're interested, I suggest you read up on those things for clues.
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Nothing big.  However his two most recent projects were Sex Traffic was a very violent and gritty look into the world of eastern european girls being sold into sex slavery.  \n\nGirl in the green cafe was written by Richard Curtis (of  love actually fame) and was more a political commentary about the whole G8/kids starving in Africa thing with a bit of an unlikely romance thrown in.\n\nNot an obvious choice for Harry Potter so I'm expecting OotP to be quite dark.
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I am quite favourable to a more "noir" feel to my crime novels which is why I love Dashiell Hammett (creator of Sam Spade) as well as Raymond Chandler (creator of Phillipe Marlowe). James Ellroy (LA Confidential, The Black Dahlia) is also a great prose writer. James Caan (The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity) was also a brilliant early crime writer.\n\nI have been told that Elmore Leonard and Lawrence Block are really excellent writers too, but I have not got down to reading their works as of yet.
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If you mean the one by Yann Martel, here is what I found:\n\n1) www.reviewsofbooks.com/life_of_pi/review/\n2) dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/08/01/martel/index.html\n3) www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0305/reviews/boyagoda.html\n\nI hope these helped!
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Scare Tactics, hosted by Shannon Daugherty, then Stephen Baldwin.\nhttp://www.scifi.com/scaretactics/
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Yes.  written under pen name Theo. LeSieg (Geisel backwards)
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I once heard that NASA supports a program for investigating the human brain and how to control it, as well as ESPERs. I'm not sure though.
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Is it possible the answer is Gene Roddenberry...lol