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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 science fiction 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. I do not answer questions about books/stories set in the Fantasy genre.
Am currently doing a writing course for writing Science Fiction Books, with the Writer's Bureau in the UK.<
Am considering becoming an amateur writer of Science Fiction. Other than that, no academic credentials, I simply have read a multitude of SF books and stories, with an emphasis on stories from H G Wells to the 1980s.
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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This may be difficult. I am not really sure what exactly is considered to be suitable for children aged 11-14 to read. I mean, I happily read all sorts of terrifying SF stories when I was 6 or 7, and they
"Iceworld" by Hal Clement is the only SF novel I know of in which the word "tofacco" is used by aliens to describe "tobacco":- http://variety-sf.blogspot.com/2008/01/hal-clement-iceworld-novel-science
Here are some excellent satiricial SF books and short story anthologies:- The Stainless Steel Rat series by Harry Harrison. Read almost any SF short story anthologies by William Tenn or Robert Sheckley
I've read a number of anthologies of H G Wells and have never come across this story, though I see it has been listed as a story in the H G Wells section of fantasticfiction.co.uk, so obviously does exist
Sounds like Arthur C Clarke's short story "Dial F for Frankenstein":- http://variety-sf.blogspot.com/2007/11/arthur-clarke-dial-f-for-frankenstein_06. It is available in this anthology , and

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