You may not be aware that ‘scientist’ is a made up word. It was created by the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, England in 1834 by William Whewell as a combination of scientia (latin for knowledge) and artist to describe a cultivator of science. Generally, it takes a generation before […]
Category: Science Fiction Research
Automated Popular English Fiction Genre Classification System
I’m pleased to announce I’ve had some success with ChatGPT classifying texts into fiction genres. I used the ChatGPT API and a bespoke Python script. It was a bit expensive but as this was crucial to my entire PhD, worth it. If you’ve come straight to this post without knowing […]
Vintage SciFi Podcast
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend a publishing course that informed students on where to start with getting academic work published in book form. As a self publisher through Amazon and other online platforms since 2011 I was curious to know how different traditional publishing was. The course was […]
Why is researching old literary science fiction important?
I was asked this question from someone who doesn’t read fiction and they felt that if anyone is doing a PhD then the only thing they should be researching is something that changes lives, like cures for cancer, rather than something that simply answers questions on life, the universe, and […]
