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L Sprague De Camps writings were related to science fiction in many ways by.............

Many children have dreams, one being L Sprague De Camp. De Camp always thought he would be a star athlete or a big time movie star but never had he or anyone else considered himself to become a **__science fiction writer.__** L Sprague De Camp along with many other authors got their career started by joining research teams. One research team that De Camp joined was the Philadelphia Navy Yard research team along with the authors Heinlein and Asimov. De Camp didn’t want to start from scratch and work his way to the top so instead he started collaborating with other hit authors such as Fletcher Pratt, Willy Ley, and P. Schulyer Miller. De Camp wasn’t feeling as if he was as popular as he should be so he took a huge step into popularity when he brought Robert E Howard’s unfinished manuscripts to completion. Well it seems that all science fiction authors started on research teams, wow! It seems that almost every science fiction book involves research teams; this tells people that science fiction is somehow based on or is within related topic to research teams. Well readers have their opinions and authors have theirs (of science fiction). Every science fiction author has their own opinion or definition of science fiction. De Camp’s definition of science fiction specifically states: “A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which wouldn’t have happened at all without its speculative scientific content”. An example of this definition would be the story __Who Goes There? written by John Campbell.__ Science fiction books usually have time periods involved in them weird ones at that. De Camp’s story __A Gun for Dinosaur__, took place during 1008, come on how many non science fiction books have time periods like that. In the book De Camp created dinosaur names but the names were given to HUMANS! Science fiction does have twist and turns they aren’t regular writings and if u don’t believe me read some of De Camp’s books. At the time science fiction was seen as a period of great peace, prosperity, and happiness. In other words at the time **__the world of science fiction__** was untroubled and all people lived in ideal happiness. Because of the happiness this gave the science fictional stories a more happy, joyful, and experimental theme. De Camp was one of those authors who wrote freely from his mind. __The Fetish King__ was about people from a far away town who had no struggles and no struggles and a non troubled world. De Camp was relating this story’s topic on the world of science fiction (people lived in ideal happiness and an untroubled world). It seems authors tended to relate their writings on how the periods and eras of science fiction were going. De Camps writings were all related to the science fiction world for the readers that don’t understand quite yet the meaning of science fiction writings or science fiction period De Camp created a phenomenal definition to help. “**//Science fiction is an incubator for imaginative minds to create visions that help us to glimpse not only the future, but also something about ourselves in the present. Fueled by the extrapolation of __what is__ into __what can be__, science fiction transports us beyond the horizon of our current technologies enabling us to observe the possible incarnations of scientific progress and to experience and appreciate the many ways this may impact upon us. For example, George Orwell’s classic work, 1984, introduced the notion of an omnipresent __Big Brother__ and served as a focal point for discussions in about our attitudes, perceptions, hopes and fears about technology, society, and how they intertwine.” By: Angelia Ellis//**