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Terminator vs. Terminatory Nuclear War as a video game
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fiction/terminator.html

A brief History of Science Fiction and Pulp novels
http://www.stationlink.com/pulpdom/pulphist.html

Science Fiction as a genre in adolescent literature
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/sciencefiction.htm

Douglas Adams, A science fiction writer?
http://home.in.tum.de/~creighto/dna/Introduction.html

Teaching Science Fiction
http://www.ukans.edu/~sfcenter/teaching.htm

What is Science Fiction
http://www.treitel.org/Richard/sf/sf.html

Science Faction
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/04/1057179149614.html?oneclick=true

Hard Science Fiction
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/exper/kcramer/anth/Hartwell.html

Solar Sails In Science Fiction
http://www.planetary.org/solarsail/science_fiction.htm

Science Fiction without the future an essay on the decline of scifi
http://home.earthlink.net/~judithberman/fiction/sffuture.html

Exploring the Posthuman through Science Fiction
Stories about humanity's future help us imagine where our dance with technology will lead. Futurist Glenn Hough has used them to make the potential pathways clearer
http://www.betterhumans.com/Features/Reports/report.aspx?articleID=2003-06-23-2

Theological Themes in science fiction
http://anitraweb.org/books/sffh/theology.html

Top Notch essays on Science Fiction from MIT
http://web.mit.edu/m-i-t/science_fiction/text.html

Post-APocalyptic Fiction and Science Fiction
(Mostly) longer essays exploring the vision of
ethics and human destiny in post-apocalyptic fiction.
http://www.transparencynow.com/tableapoc.htm

Vernor Vinge on the Singularity
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-sing.html

Interesting essays on Logan's Run
http://www.transparencynow.com/Logan/logtable1.htm

DMOZ open directory essays on Science Fiction
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Genres/Science_Fiction/Essays_and_Criticism/

Tonya's Sphere of Influence - A brief historical survey of women writers of science fiction.
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/Tonya/sf/history.html

The Science of Star Trek - essay
http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/just_for_fun/startrek.html

Star Wars Technical Commentaries
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/

Essay on Epic Fantasy
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/20020624/epic_fantasy.shtml

How to write a best selling fantasy novel
http://www.workathomecareers.com/library/writing-fantasy-novel.html

Essay - Fairies and their kin
http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/fairies.htm

Would Aliens Visit?
http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_shostak_visit_020627.html

Essay: How Aliens Might Work
http://science.howstuffworks.com/alien-physiology.htm

Writing Speculative Fiction, by Mary Soon Lee
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~mslee/wr.html

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