January 02: National Science Fiction Day

National Science Fiction Day

National Science Fiction Day corresponds to science fiction writer Isaac Asimov’s birthday*. Asimov won over a dozen annual awards and a half dozen lifetime awards for his writing. He also received 14 honorary doctorate degrees from universities. Many people regard his “Foundation” trilogy as the greatest science fiction series ever written. Asimov is always at the top of the list for best SF writers.

What is Science Fiction?

It’s a genre of fiction based on imagined futuristic scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.

Things To Do:

  • Read a science fiction book: suggestions—The Foundation Universe, Stranger in a Strange Land, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Brave New World, Slaughterhouse-Five, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Martian Chronicles, The Time Machine
  • See a science fiction movie:  suggestions—Soylent Green, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Alien, Blade Runner, E.T., Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Fifth Element, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Mars Attacks!, The Last Starfighter
  • Watch a science fiction TV show: suggestions—Firefly, The X-Files, Farscape, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Futurama, Fringe, The Outer Limits, Battlestar Galactica, Life on Mars, Babylon 5, Jericho, Continuum
  • Write a science fiction short story.

*This is the date Asimov celebrated his birthday. His parents were uncertain of the exact date.

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