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Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family . Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry , and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. Huxley spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death. Aldous Huxley was a humanist , pacifist , and satirist , and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics . [ edit ] Early life
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Brave New World - Wikipedia
Brave New World is a novel written in 1931 by Aldous Huxley and published in 1932.
George R. R. Martin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Raymond Richard Martin [ 1 ] (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM , [ 2 ] is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy , horror , and science fiction . He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire , his bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for their dramatic pay-cable series Game of Thrones . Martin was selected by Time magazine as one of the "2011 Time 100", a list of the "most influential people in the world". [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ edit ] Biography George R.A Song of Ice and Fire is an ongoing series of epic fantasy novels by American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin . Martin began writing the series in 1991 and the first volume was published in 1996.
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Free Speculative Fiction Online: Robert A. Heinlein
Free Speculative Fiction Online Successful Operation A sample from this collection . Notes: The Last Days of the United States
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke , CBE , FRAS , Sri Lankabhimanya , (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, [ 2 ] and futurist , [ 3 ] famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] For many years, Robert A. Heinlein , Isaac Asimov , and Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction. [ 6 ] Clarke served in the Royal Air Force as a radar instructor and technician from 1941–1946.
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Arthur C. Clarke Quotes - The Quotations Page
Showing quotations 1 to 15 of 15 total CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years. Arthur C. Clarke , 1983
Clarke's Three Laws are three "laws" of prediction formulated by the British writer and scientist Arthur C.
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Sir Terence David John " Terry " Pratchett , OBE (born 28 April 1948) [ 3 ] is an English novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre. [ 4 ] He is best known for his popular and long-running Discworld series of comic fantasy novels.