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I have read most of the short stories and books produced by the Top 80-100 authors in the SF field, as well as more obscure authors such as Robert Sheckley, and can answer any queries regarding author, title or theme of a short story(or novel). I can also answer questions on the history and influence of Science Fiction past to present, as well as on specific SF genres such as Cyberpunk,Golden Age SF, H G Wells-style scientific romances etc.
Am currently doing a writing course for writing Science Fiction Books, with the Writer's Bureau in the UK.<
I love this subject as it allows authors and readers to use their imagination. In SF stories you can invent an entire world. Modern Literature is stuck with the same old social setting and therefore is often far too derivative and unoriginal.
I hope to become an SF writer eventually. Meanwhile I am collecting as many old editions of 1900-1990 SF stories as possible.
In the early 1940s the SF writer Cleve Cartmill wrote a science fiction story describing rather accurately how an atomic bomb works. The editor had to persuade the FBI not to arrest him!
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I only immediately recall 1 story involving stopping time by Arthur C Clarke but it involved a woman giving a man a gadget which stopped time, so can't be the right one. As for the rest , your guess
Well, the nantucket series involves time travel to the past while the emberverse series involves the change nullifying all electricty in a modern-world/20th century environment. So they are different enough
Robert Heinlein wrote a well-known story featuring people moving into a house which linked to numerous different dimensions, which could well be your story. Here's a quick description of the plot:-
This sounds like a book version of the movie "The Last Starfighter" which had the exact same plot with a young man playing a video game and achieving a high score, resulting in aliens recruiting him to
Hello, I finally worked out what the answer was to your question. The story is called The Conspirators and is by the author James White. This site shows all anthologies published before c.1983(no

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