All this looks like some terrible automated laundry from an old sci-fi novel.

But what really makes me wonder about borders is that it seems almost whenever there is a particularly good sci-fi novel it get kicked upstairs so the sneering can be maintained.

Cryptonomicon later won the Mir Fantastiki award for best foreign sci-fi novel in 2005.

He is best known as the author of the book Shipwreck, first published by Gollancz in 1975, which was the winner of the prize for the best British sci-fi novel that year.

Brave New World is, ahead of other classics such as 1984, the one sci-fi novel that everyone can recognise in our own cultural infatuation with indulgence and social structure.

Sawyer opens his essay with a consideration of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," commonly thought of as the first sci-fi novel, but also, of course, as a great work of literature.

The cafe's name was chosen as an homage to the satirical sci-fi novel, Nova Express, by William S. Burroughs.

They remain close, and hope to rewrite a favorite sci-fi novel of their youth called "Space Hawk."

Halliwell's Film Guide claimed the film was a "rough and ready adaptation of a famous sci-fi novel, sometimes blunderingly effective and with moments of good trick work."

It looked like the cover of a '50s sci-fi novel, some dream city, some clean future glinting in the night.