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60 relations: Artificial intelligence, Battle of Agincourt, Binding of Isaac, Bradley Cooper, Cable car, Compound interest, Cryopreservation, Dan Simmons, Direct democracy, Doubleday (publisher), Dying Earth, Dyson tree, Earth, Entropy, Fanny Brawne, Farcaster, Gary Ruddell, Geoffrey Chaucer, House of Windsor, Hugo Award, Hyperion Cantos, In medias res, Jack Vance, John Keats, Lamia, Lamia (poem), Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Mars, Mars in fiction, Messier 13, Muses, Palestinians, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Prayers to Broken Stones, Private investigator, Romeo and Juliet, Science fiction, Scott Derrickson, Shrike, Society of Jesus, Soft science fiction, Space opera, Starship, Stephen Hawking, Syfy, T. H. White, Tau Ceti in fiction, Tesla trees, The Canterbury Tales, The Fall of Hyperion (novel), ..., The Hollywood Reporter, The Once and Future King, Thing (assembly), Time dilation, Titan (mythology), Titanomachy (epic poem), Tuberculosis, Variety (magazine), Warner Bros., World line. Expand index (10 more) »
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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Battle of Agincourt
The Battle of Agincourt (Azincourt) was a major English victory in the Hundred Years' War.
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Binding of Isaac
The Binding of Isaac (עֲקֵידַת יִצְחַק Aqedat Yitzhaq, in Hebrew also simply "The Binding", הָעֲקֵידָה Ha-Aqedah), is a story from the Hebrew Bible found in Genesis 22.
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Bradley Cooper
Bradley Charles Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor and producer.
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Cable car
A cable car is any of a variety of cable transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate.
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Compound interest
Compound interest is the addition of interest to the principal sum of a loan or deposit, or in other words, interest on interest.
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Cryopreservation
Cryo-preservation or cryo-conservation is a process where organelles, cells, tissues, extracellular matrix, organs or any other biological constructs susceptible to damage caused by unregulated chemical kinetics are preserved by cooling to very low temperatures (typically −80 °C using solid carbon dioxide or −196 °C using liquid nitrogen).
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Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons (born April 4, 1948) is an American science fiction and horror writer.
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Direct democracy
Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly.
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Doubleday (publisher)
Doubleday is an American publishing company founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the United States.
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Dying Earth
Dying Earth is a fantasy series by the American author Jack Vance, comprising four books originally published from 1950 to 1984.
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Dyson tree
A Dyson tree is a hypothetical genetically-engineered plant (perhaps resembling a tree) capable of growing in a comet, suggested by the physicist Freeman Dyson.
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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Entropy
In statistical mechanics, entropy is an extensive property of a thermodynamic system.
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Fanny Brawne
Frances (Fanny) Brawne Lindon (9 August 1800 – 4 December 1865) is best known for her betrothal to English Romantic poet John Keats, a fact largely unknown until 1878, when Keats's letters to her were published.
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Farcaster
A farcaster is an instantaneous transportation device in the fictional Hyperion universe.
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Gary Ruddell
Gary Ruddell (born November 16, 1951 in San Mateo, California) is an American artist best known for his figurative representational paintings.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.
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House of Windsor
The House of Windsor is the reigning royal house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.
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Hugo Award
The Hugo Awards are a set of literary awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year.
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Hyperion Cantos
The Hyperion Cantos is a series of science fiction novels by Dan Simmons.
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In medias res
A narrative work beginning in medias res (lit. "into the middle of things") opens in the midst of action (cf. ab ovo, ab initio).
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Jack Vance
John Holbrook "Jack" Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer.
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John Keats
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet.
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Lamia
Lamia (Λάμια), in ancient Greek mythology, was a woman who became a child-eating monster after her children were destroyed by Hera, who learned of her husband Zeus's trysts with her.
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Lamia (poem)
Lamia is a narrative poem written by English poet John Keats which was published in 1820.
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Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
Winners of the Locus Award for Best SF Novel, awarded by the ''Locus'' magazine.
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.
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Mars in fiction
Fictional representations of Mars have been popular for over a century.
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Messier 13
Messier 13 (M13), also designated NGC 6205 and sometimes called the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules or the Hercules Globular Cluster, is a globular cluster of several hundred thousand stars in the constellation of Hercules.
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Muses
The Muses (/ˈmjuːzɪz/; Ancient Greek: Μοῦσαι, Moũsai) are the inspirational goddesses of literature, science, and the arts in Greek mythology.
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Palestinians
The Palestinian people (الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha‘b al-Filasṭīnī), also referred to as Palestinians (الفلسطينيون, al-Filasṭīniyyūn, פָלַסְטִינִים) or Palestinian Arabs (العربي الفلسطيني, al-'arabi il-filastini), are an ethnonational group comprising the modern descendants of the peoples who have lived in Palestine over the centuries, including Jews and Samaritans, and who today are largely culturally and linguistically Arab.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French idealist philosopher and Jesuit priest who trained as a paleontologist and geologist and took part in the discovery of Peking Man.
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Prayers to Broken Stones
Prayers to Broken Stones is a short story anthology by American author Dan Simmons.
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Private investigator
A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services.
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.
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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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Scott Derrickson
Scott Derrickson (born July 16, 1966) is an American director, screenwriter and producer.
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Shrike
Shrikes are carnivorous passerine birds of the family Laniidae.
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Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.
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Soft science fiction
Soft science fiction, or soft SF, is a category of science fiction with two different definitions.
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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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Starship
A starship, starcraft or interstellar spacecraft is a theoretical spacecraft designed for traveling between planetary systems, as opposed to an aerospace-vehicle designed for orbital spaceflight or interplanetary travel.
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Stephen Hawking
Stephen William Hawking (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the time of his death.
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Syfy
Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel and Sci Fi) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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T. H. White
Terence Hanbury "Tim" White (29 May 1906 – 17 January 1964) was an English author best known for his Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958.
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Tau Ceti in fiction
The planetary systems of stars other than the Sun and the Solar System are a staple element in much science fiction.
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Tesla trees
Tesla Trees are a fictional plant lifeform in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos series.
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales (Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
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The Fall of Hyperion (novel)
The Fall of Hyperion is the second novel in the Hyperion Cantos, a science fiction series by American author Dan Simmons.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is a multi-platform American digital and print magazine founded in 1930 and focusing on the Hollywood film industry, television, and entertainment industries, as well as Hollywood's intersection with fashion, finance, law, technology, lifestyle, and politics.
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The Once and Future King
The Once and Future King is a work by T. H. White based upon Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory.
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Thing (assembly)
A thing, also known as Alþing, was the governing assembly of a northern Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by lawspeakers.
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Time dilation
According to the theory of relativity, time dilation is a difference in the elapsed time measured by two observers, either due to a velocity difference relative to each other, or by being differently situated relative to a gravitational field.
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Titan (mythology)
In Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek: Τιτάν, Titán, Τiτᾶνες, Titânes) and Titanesses (or Titanides; Greek: Τιτανίς, Titanís, Τιτανίδες, Titanídes) were members of the second generation of divine beings, descending from the primordial deities and preceding the Olympians.
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Titanomachy (epic poem)
The Titanomachy (Greek: Τιτανομαχία) is a lost epic poem, which is a part of Greek mythology.
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).
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Variety (magazine)
Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
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World line
The world line (or worldline) of an object is the path that object traces in -dimensional spacetime.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(Simmons_novel)
