- from old stories, to sell to publishers.
Algis Budrys in 1965
described fixups as a
consequence of the lack of good
supply during the "bad
years for quality"...
-
Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 –
February 3, 1958) was an
American author of
science fiction,
fantasy and horror.
Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles,...
- I,
Robot is a 1950
science fiction fixup novel by
Isaac Asimov. I, Robot, I Robot, or
iRobot may also
refer to: "I, Robot" (short story), a 1939 science-fiction...
- but this is the most common.) This
leads to the
necessity for "pointer
fixups", also
called thunks, when casting.
Consider the
following C++ code: D *d...
- Look up
thunk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In
computer programming, a
thunk is a
subroutine used to
inject a
calculation into
another subroutine...
- I,
Robot is a
fixup collection made up of
science fiction short stories by
American writer Isaac Asimov. The
stories originally appeared in the American...
-
James Patrick Hogan (27 June 1941 – 12 July 2010) was a
British science fiction author. His
major works include the
Giants series of five
novels published...
-
publication in Astounding. This is
their first publication, so the book is not a
fixup in the
usual sense,
although the
stories were not
originally intended for...
- to the
correct location.
Fixups are
designed to
support relocation of the
program as a
complete unit. In some cases, each
fixup in the
table is
itself relative...
- Roma
Eterna is a
science fiction fixup novel by
American writer Robert Silverberg,
published in 2003,
which presents an
alternative history in
which the...
