51 relations: Aquatic animal, Arthur C. Clarke Award, Artificial intelligence, Big Bang, BSFA Award, Closed timelike curve, Coalescent, Convection cell, Cosmos, Dark matter, Destiny's Children, Eusociality, Exotic matter, Extraterrestrial life, Exultant (novel), Faster-than-light, Flux (novel), Futures studies, Gravity, Great Attractor, Hard science fiction, Heat death of the universe, Interzone (magazine), John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Jonathan Strahan, Kardashev scale, Locus Award for Best First Novel, Militarism, Multiverse, Naked singularity, Neutron star, Novel, Novella, Omnibus edition, Parallel universes in fiction, Paul J. McAuley, Philip K. Dick Award, Posthuman, Raft (novel), Resplendent, Ring (Baxter novel), Science fiction, Short story, Space colonization, Space opera, Stephen Baxter (author), Symbiosis, Theoretical physics, Timelike Infinity, Transcendent (novel), ..., Vacuum Diagrams. Expand index (1 more) »
Aquatic animal
A aquatic animal is an animal, either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in the water for most or all of its lifetime.
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Arthur C. Clarke Award
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is a British award given for the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals.
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Big Bang
The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the universe from the earliest known periods through its subsequent large-scale evolution.
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BSFA Award
The BSFA Awards are literary awards presented annually since 1970 by the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) to honour works in the genre of science fiction.
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Closed timelike curve
In mathematical physics, a closed timelike curve (CTC) is a world line in a Lorentzian manifold, of a material particle in spacetime that is "closed", returning to its starting point.
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Coalescent
Coalescent is a science-fiction novel by Stephen Baxter.
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Convection cell
In the field of fluid dynamics, a convection cell is the phenomenon that occurs when density differences exist within a body of liquid or gas.
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Cosmos
The cosmos is the universe.
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Dark matter
Dark matter is a theorized form of matter that is thought to account for approximately 80% of the matter in the universe, and about a quarter of its total energy density.
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Destiny's Children
Destiny's Children is a science-fiction series by Stephen Baxter.
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Eusociality
Eusociality (from Greek εὖ eu "good" and social), the highest level of organization of animal sociality, is defined by the following characteristics: cooperative brood care (including care of offspring from other individuals), overlapping generations within a colony of adults, and a division of labor into reproductive and non-reproductive groups.
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Exotic matter
In physics, exotic matter is matter that somehow deviates from normal matter and has "exotic" properties.
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Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").
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Exultant (novel)
Exultant is a science fiction novel by British author Stephen Baxter.
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Faster-than-light
Faster-than-light (also superluminal or FTL) communication and travel are the conjectural propagation of information or matter faster than the speed of light.
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Flux (novel)
Flux is a 1993 science fiction novel by British author Stephen Baxter.
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Futures studies
Futures studies (also called futurology) is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them.
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Gravity
Gravity, or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light—are brought toward (or gravitate toward) one another.
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Great Attractor
The Great Attractor is an apparent gravitational anomaly in intergalactic space at the center of the local Laniakea Supercluster, in which the Milky Way is located, in the so-called Zone of Avoidance that is notoriously difficult to observe in visible wavelengths due to the obscuring effects of our own galactic plane.
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Hard science fiction
Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by an emphasis on scientific accuracy.
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Heat death of the universe
The heat death of the universe is a plausible ultimate fate of the universe in which the universe has diminished to a state of no thermodynamic free energy and therefore can no longer sustain processes that increase entropy.
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Interzone (magazine)
Interzone is a British fantasy and science fiction magazine.
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John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, or Campbell Memorial Award, is an annual award presented by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to the author of the best science fiction novel published in English in the preceding calendar year.
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Jonathan Strahan
Jonathan Strahan (born 1964 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an editor and publisher of science fiction.
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Kardashev scale
The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement, based on the amount of energy a civilization is able to use for communication, proposed by Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev.
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Locus Award for Best First Novel
Winners of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, awarded by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus.
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Militarism
Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values; examples of modern militarist states include the United States, Russia and Turkey.
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Multiverse
The multiverse (or meta-universe) is a hypothetical group of multiple separate universes including the universe in which humans live.
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Naked singularity
In general relativity, a naked singularity is a gravitational singularity without an event horizon.
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Neutron star
A neutron star is the collapsed core of a large star which before collapse had a total of between 10 and 29 solar masses.
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Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.
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Novella
A novella is a text of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, somewhere between 7,500 and 40,000 words.
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Omnibus edition
An omnibus edition or omnibus is a work containing one or more works by the same or, more rarely, different authors.
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Parallel universes in fiction
A parallel universe is a hypothetical self-contained reality co-existing with one's own.
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Paul J. McAuley
Paul J. McAuley (born 23 April 1955) is a British botanist and science fiction author.
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Philip K. Dick Award
The Philip K. Dick Award is a science fiction award given annually at Norwescon and sponsored by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and (since 2005) the Philip K. Dick Trust.
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Posthuman
Posthuman or post-human is a concept originating in the fields of science fiction, futurology, contemporary art, and philosophy that literally means a person or entity that exists in a state beyond being human.
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Raft (novel)
Raft is a 1991 hard science fiction book by British writer Stephen Baxter.
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Resplendent
Resplendent is an English language science fiction collection by British writer Stephen Baxter, published in 2006.
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Ring (Baxter novel)
Ring is a 1994 science fiction novel by British author Stephen Baxter.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.
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Short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.
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Space colonization
Space colonization (also called space settlement, or extraterrestrial colonization) is permanent human habitation off the planet Earth.
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Space opera
Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, melodramatic adventure, interplanetary battles, chivalric romance, and risk-taking.
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Stephen Baxter (author)
Stephen Baxter (born 13 November 1957) is an English hard science fiction author.
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Symbiosis
Symbiosis (from Greek συμβίωσις "living together", from σύν "together" and βίωσις "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.
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Theoretical physics
Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena.
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Timelike Infinity
Timelike Infinity is a 1992 science fiction book by British author Stephen Baxter.
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Transcendent (novel)
Transcendent is the third novel in the Destiny's Children series by Stephen Baxter, and a 2006 Campbell Award nominee.
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Vacuum Diagrams
Vacuum Diagrams is a collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Stephen Baxter.
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