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John W. Campbell has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 13:33, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looking for one book. I only remember the beginning of the piece. Some guy found a derelict computer, sat down at it and started doing something, and then he saw a man with a gun walk up to the desk, they looked at each other in silence for a while, then the guy mechanically pressed the Enter button and the man shot him back. The work was read in the 1990s or very early 2000s. The piece appeared no later than the 1990s (probably earlier). I also remember that the guy was doing something enthusiastically on the computer: at first he typed without looking at the screen, but the message on the computer monitor made him do his work more slowly and carefully. The phrases went something like this. The message on the computer screen made him work more carefully. Behind the desk stood a man with a gun in his hand. The guy had never seen a real gun, except in the movies, but he knew immediately what it was. The guy's hand dropped mechanically to the Enter button, and the same second the black muzzle of the gun burst into flames, ending his life. Vyacheslav84 (talk) 23:15, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Neutral notice Darkwarriorblake (talk) 11:31, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

LGBT themes in speculative fiction has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 15:28, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Batman: Anarky has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 02:12, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have nominated Anarky for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. 🍕Boneless Pizza!🍕 (🔔) 04:40, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I realized that while for many countries we have articles like Japanese science fiction (here, no Japanese fantasy), for some we have articles like Russian science fiction and fantasy and Science fiction and fantasy in Poland. This is likely related to the fact that some countries (in particular, East European/Slavic, see https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/fantastika) tend to use the term speculative fiction more than English, in which science fiction and fantasy are more widely used as terms (and a bit more separate). Anyway, I intend to review entries in Category:Science fiction by nationality and Category:Fantasy by nationality, as well as Category:Speculative_fiction_by_nationality and start RMs for any entries that need it (ex. Russian science fiction and fantasy -> Russian speculative fiction, Polish science fiction and fantasy -> Polish speculative fiction). Note that Russian/Polish sf and fantasy are currently redirects there, they could exists as separate subarticles (which is true for any country, i.e. for each country there should be parent Fooian speculative fiction article, and separate sf, fantasy, horror and possibly some minor subgenres).

Sidenote: I am amazed we don't have any of these: American speculative fiction, American science fiction, American fantasy, American horror... amazing oversight given this is English Wikipedia (British is also missing but amusingly enough, we have Australian science fiction and Canadian science fiction; fantasy does not exist in any of those languages). _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 09:32, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

PS. Requested moves (I was right, this is a problem affecting only a few EE countries using the word fantastika, i.e. speculative fiction, and the creators likely did not know the correct specialized term:

• Talk:Science_fiction_and_fantasy_in_Poland#Requested_move_1_September_2024
• Talk:Russian_science_fiction_and_fantasy#Requested_move_1_September_2024
• Talk:Czech_science_fiction_and_fantasy#Requested_move_1_September_2024
• Talk:Ukrainian_science_fiction_and_fantasy#Requested_move_1_September_2024

I have nominated E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 19:41, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Pixels (2015 film)#Requested move 22 October 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. 𝚈𝚘𝚟𝚝 (𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚟𝚝) 01:21, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is the online version of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction a reliable source? Mika1h (talk) 12:37, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Very much so, yes. TompaDompa (talk) 12:38, 28 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FreeSpace 2 has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 13:05, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Melange (fictional drug)#Requested move 23 October 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 15:06, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Slipstream genre#Requested move 7 November 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Raladic (talk) 16:27, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think this character is notable, but feel free to prove me wrong by adding sources. Bearian (talk) 02:04, 12 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]