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SP-546: Tales of Innovation and Imagination

30/09/2004 588 views 0 likes
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Selected Stories from the 2003 Clarke-Bradbury International Science Fiction Competition

The European Space Agency (ESA) recently carried out a review of science fiction (SF) writings, artwork and films to ascertain whether any of the concepts and technolo gies mentioned in this SF literature could be used for spacecraft and missions. There was the possibility that older, overlooked ideas might be now feasible with today's huge advances in space and other technologies and materials that were simply not available at the time when many SF works were written in the 1920-50s. The enormous public interest in this study stimulated the idea of a science fiction essay competition.
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