SF

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British sf particularly favored political and sociological themes, often reacting to contemporary events or social conditions, then extrapolating what might happen “if this goes on.”

From Washington Post • May 12, 2021

This paranoia-rich subgenre runs throughout sf, from Jack Finney’s body snatchers to Robert Heinlein’s puppet masters to half the work of Philip K. Dick.

From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2019

There’s an old joke about the golden age of science fiction being 12 — that is, the age when young people discover and then devour as much sf as they can find.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2018

Campbell largely formulated the Three Laws of Robotics, which energize many of Asimov’s early stories, and even helped fashion what became the Foundation Trilogy, long judged the best sf series of all time.

From Washington Post • Oct. 31, 2018

The coxae of the five pairs of limbs following the chelicerae were arranged in a series on each side between the mouth, M, and the metasternites, mets. sf, The sub-frontal median sclerite.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various