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Science Fiction - MSN Encarta (797 words) |
 | Writers and readers generally agree that a work of science fiction should not violate what is known to science, even as it speculates widely and often wildly in areas outside the known. |
| Common subjects for science fiction include the future, near and far, especially future societies better or worse than our own; travel through space or time; life on other planets; crises created by technology, or by alien creatures and environments; and the creation or destruction of worlds. |
| Science fiction would not exist in its present form without the social changes that took place at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-18th century. |
| Science and Education for Prosp. China: A Frank Assessment (2401 words) |
| The State Science and Technology Commission spent six months drafting the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council on the Acceleration of Progress in Science and Technology" released on May 6, 1995. |
| The policies discussed in 'Science and Education' have been in effect for several years, said Song, but were only approved by the State Council in May 1995 when the original SSTC theme 'Science and Technology for a Prosperous China' was broadened to 'Science and Education for a Prosperous China'. |
| It reminds readers that 'the U.S. Constitution written in 1787 noted that Science and Technology are central to national prosperity; this is in large part reason why the United States emerged as a superpower in the Twentieth Century. |
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