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font-style:italic; padding-bottom:0.2em;">Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=&rft.author=%5B%5BBrian+Stableford%5D%5D&rft.date=2006&rft.pub=%5B%5BRoutledge%5D%5D&rft.pages=xxv+%2B+729"></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Science_Fact_and_Science_Fiction_An_Encyclopedia.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a3/Science_Fact_and_Science_Fiction_An_Encyclopedia.jpg/220px-Science_Fact_and_Science_Fiction_An_Encyclopedia.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Science_Fact_and_Science_Fiction_An_Encyclopedia.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="274" data-file-height="364" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Brian_Stableford" title="Brian Stableford">Brian Stableford</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Routledge" title="Routledge">Routledge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; 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It consists of approximately 300 entries on various topics relating to how scientific advancements have influenced fiction. The book received positive reviews, with critics commending it for filling a previously-unoccupied niche in the literature and praising the contents in terms of depth and breadth, although finding the book to be expensive at a price of $165. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Science_Fact_and_Science_Fiction:_An_Encyclopedia&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Author <a href="/wiki/Brian_Stableford" title="Brian Stableford">Brian Stableford</a> originally intended the title to be <i>Science Fact and Fiction: An Encyclopedia</i>; the publisher added the second "Science" before the book went into print.<sup id="cite_ref-StablefordInterview_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordInterview-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A planned follow-up, <i>Folklore and Fantastic Literature</i>, was cancelled as a result of the parent company's department on <a href="/wiki/Reference_work" title="Reference work">reference works</a> becoming defunct; Stableford attributed this to the ease of looking up information on the <a href="/wiki/Internet" title="Internet">Internet</a> making print media of that kind unprofitable, saying "It looks as if the entire market sector is now effectively dead."<sup id="cite_ref-StablefordInterview_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordInterview-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Latham_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Latham-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Contents">Contents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Science_Fact_and_Science_Fiction:_An_Encyclopedia&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Contents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Stableford said in a 2006 interview with Barbara Godwin for <i><a href="/wiki/Infinity_Plus" title="Infinity Plus">Infinity Plus</a></i> that the goal of the book is to outline the influence developments in science have had on fiction writing.<sup id="cite_ref-StablefordInterview_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordInterview-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To this end, the book has approximately 300 entries,<sup id="cite_ref-Latham_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Latham-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Barron_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barron-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-O'Gorman_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Gorman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ranging from 400 to 4,000 words in length,<sup id="cite_ref-Barron_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barron-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on topics including concepts like <a href="/wiki/Aeronautics" title="Aeronautics">aeronautics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Time_travel" title="Time travel">time travel</a>, science fiction writers like <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> and <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>, and theorists like <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Kepler" title="Johannes Kepler">Johannes Kepler</a> and <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Latham_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Latham-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-O'Gorman_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Gorman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gordon_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gordon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Stableford, the combined <a href="/wiki/Word_count" title="Word count">word count</a> is 460,000 words, not including the 140,000-word index.<sup id="cite_ref-StablefordInterview_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-StablefordInterview-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The book consists of an introduction covering 7 pages, 575 pages of entries, a 12-page bibliography, and an index spanning 140 pages.<sup id="cite_ref-Barron_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barron-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gordon_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gordon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Science_Fact_and_Science_Fiction:_An_Encyclopedia&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Neil_Barron" title="Neil Barron">Neil Barron</a> reviewed the book for <i><a href="/wiki/SFRA_Review" class="mw-redirect" title="SFRA Review">SFRA Review</a></i> in 2006, presenting the book as an updated successor of sorts to the <a href="/wiki/Popular_science" title="Popular science">popular science</a> book <i><a href="/wiki/The_Science_in_Science_Fiction" title="The Science in Science Fiction">The Science in Science Fiction</a></i> (1982)—which Stableford contributed to together with <a href="/wiki/David_Langford" title="David Langford">David Langford</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Nicholls_(writer)" title="Peter Nicholls (writer)">Peter Nicholls</a>—noting that Stableford says in the introduction to <i>Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia</i> that the older work used <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> as the starting point to examine science whereas the newer work takes the opposite approach. Barron said "There is no book I know of which is a direct competitor to this encyclopedic study", writing that while the second edition of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Encyclopedia_of_Science_Fiction" title="The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction">The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</a></i> (1993) by editors <a href="/wiki/Peter_Nicholls_(writer)" title="Peter Nicholls (writer)">Peter Nicholls</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Clute" title="John Clute">John Clute</a> far exceeds it in the number of entries, "they usually lack the analytical rigor and detail that Stableford provides". Barron praised the breadth of knowledge displayed by the contents of the entries and the lengthy bibliography.<sup id="cite_ref-Barron_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barron-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jack O'Gorman, reviewing the encyclopedia for <i><a href="/wiki/Booklist" title="Booklist">Booklist</a></i> in 2007, wrote that it "is not an encyclopedia of science fiction, and it's not an encyclopedia of science, either"; according to O'Gorman, it fills a niche that is not covered by other works such as <a href="/wiki/Gary_Westfahl" title="Gary Westfahl">Gary Westfahl</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Greenwood_Encyclopedia_of_Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy" title="The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy">The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy</a></i> (2005) or <a href="/wiki/Don_D%27Ammassa" title="Don D'Ammassa">Don D'Ammassa</a>'s <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Encyclopedia_of_Science_Fiction_(2005_book)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2005 book) (page does not exist)">Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</a></i> (2005). O'Gorman found the book useful, and commended the decision to include works mentioned in the entries in the index.<sup id="cite_ref-O'Gorman_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Gorman-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Cindy Stewart Kaag wrote in <i><a href="/wiki/Reference_and_User_Services_Quarterly" title="Reference and User Services Quarterly">Reference and User Services Quarterly</a></i> in 2007 that the book is "a really good reference work on the science that makes it science fiction" and that the book does not have any counterparts in that respect. Kaag highlighted the navigability of the work as a positive, with entries listed alphabetically and thematically in addition to there being an extensive index, and commented that the bibliography at the end is comprehensive with works by scholars and science fiction writers alike. Kaag noted that the $165 price would likely make the book prohibitively expensive for many libraries.<sup id="cite_ref-Kaag_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kaag-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Rob_Latham" title="Rob Latham">Rob Latham</a>, in a 2007 review in the <i><a href="/wiki/Journal_of_the_Fantastic_in_the_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts">Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts</a></i>, compared the book favourably to <i>The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</i>, writing that "Stableford's commentary has a wider cultural and philosophical resonance" as well as a greater level of detail. According to Latham, the book "entirely subsumes and supplants the few general works remotely like it" such as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rex_Malik&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rex Malik (page does not exist)">Rex Malik</a>'s <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Future_Imperfect:_Science_Fact_and_Science_Fiction&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Future Imperfect: Science Fact and Science Fiction (page does not exist)">Future Imperfect: Science Fact and Science Fiction</a></i> (1980) and <i>The Science in Science Fiction</i>. Latham found the only negative thing to be said about the contents of the book to be the focus on "genre sf" to the exclusion of other subgenres at the periphery of science fiction, while noting that the high cost of the volume was also a drawback.<sup id="cite_ref-Latham_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Latham-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Joan Gordon, in her 2009 review of the work for <i><a href="/wiki/Science_Fiction_Studies" title="Science Fiction Studies">Science Fiction Studies</a></i>, said the book would be "a necessity, albeit an expensive one, for any library, public or personal, that strives for a strong collection on science fiction". She found the interconnectivity between entries, with words corresponding to entry titles marked by an asterisk, to provide a good way to explore related topics. Gordon also praised the entries themselves, both in terms of being informative and engaging to read. She found the example of one of her students using the book to illustrate its utility well: the student sought information on <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_in_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear weapons in fiction">nuclear weapons in fiction</a> and consulted the "<a href="/wiki/Atom_Bomb" class="mw-redirect" title="Atom Bomb">Atom Bomb</a>" entry, finding information among other things on the <a href="/wiki/History_of_nuclear_weapons" title="History of nuclear weapons">history of nuclear weapons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_anxiety" title="Nuclear anxiety">nuclear anxiety</a>, and various relevant works of fiction across a wide range of time, with the possibility of locating additional relevant information in other entries or the bibliography. According to Gordon, "There is nothing else like it, but its presence makes clear that there should have been." Gordon nevertheless found several things about the book to criticize. She stated that while the introduction says that individuals were assigned entries due to "the relevance of their work to issues in science, rather than their importance within the history of genre science fiction", she did not find the selection of authors to reflect that criterion particularly well. She also perceived the book to have a strong male bias, noting for instance that the only woman with an individual entry in the book is <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> and identifying <a href="/wiki/Marie_Curie" title="Marie Curie">Marie Curie</a> as a high-profile omission. Gordon further noted that the coverage of games is sparse.<sup id="cite_ref-Gordon_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gordon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Science_Fact_and_Science_Fiction:_An_Encyclopedia&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-StablefordInterview-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-StablefordInterview_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-StablefordInterview_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-StablefordInterview_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-StablefordInterview_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGodwin2006" class="citation web cs1">Godwin, Barbara (2006-09-18). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intbs06.htm">"Brian Stableford interviewed"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Infinity_Plus" title="Infinity Plus">Infinity Plus</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220101165907/http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/nonfiction/intbs06.htm">Archived</a> from the original on 2022-01-01<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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