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98 relations: Adventure game, Algis Budrys, Amazon Studios, Anno Domini, Antimatter, Audiobook, Ballantine Books, Big Dumb Object, Bishop Ring (habitat), Brain, Centrifugal force, Chaosium, Dungeons & Dragons, Dyson sphere, Earth, Edward M. Lerner, Ernest Cline, Fate of Worlds, First-person shooter, Fleet of Worlds, Galaxy Science Fiction, General Products, Genetics, Graphic novel, Gravity, Halo (franchise), Halo Array, Halo.Bungie.Org, Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo: The Fall of Reach, Hardcover, Highway hypnosis, Hugo Award, Hyperdrive, Iain Banks, Known Space, Kzin, Larry Niven, Light, Light-year, Locus Award, Locus Award for Best Novel, Longevity, Louis Wu, Luck, MacOS, Man-Kzin Wars, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Megastructure, MGM Television, ..., Michael R. Perry, Microsoft Windows, Nebula Award, Nessus (Pierson's Puppeteer), Orbital (The Culture), Orbital ring, Paperback, Paradox Interactive, Pierson's Puppeteers, Planescape, Proper velocity, Ready Player One, Religion, Reward system, Ringworld (role-playing game), Ringworld series, Ringworld's Children, Robert Mandell, Role-playing game, Scatterbrain (book), Science fiction, Selective breeding, Seven Seas Entertainment, Sigil (Dungeons & Dragons), Space Empires, Speaker-to-Animals, Star Ruler, Starship, Stasis (fiction), Stellaris (video game), Strata (novel), Strong interaction, Syfy, Teela Brown, Terry Pratchett, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Ringworld Engineers, The Ringworld Throne, Tor Books, Tsunami Games, Ultimate tensile strength, Universal Cable Productions, Vernier thruster, Virtual reality, William R. Forstchen, Worldcon, Xbox (console), 4X. Expand index (48 more) »
Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving.
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Algis Budrys
Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic.
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Amazon Studios
Amazon Studios is a subsidiary of Amazon that focuses on developing television series, and distributing and producing films and comics from online submissions and crowd-sourced feedback.
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Anno Domini
The terms anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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Antimatter
In modern physics, antimatter is defined as a material composed of the antiparticle (or "partners") to the corresponding particles of ordinary matter.
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Audiobook
An audiobook (or talking book) is a recording of a text being read.
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Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine.
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Big Dumb Object
In discussion of science fiction, a Big Dumb Object (BDO) is any mysterious object (usually of extraterrestrial or unknown origin and immense power) in a story which generates an intense sense of wonder by its mere existence; to a certain extent, the term deliberately deflates this.
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Bishop Ring (habitat)
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Brain
The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals.
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Centrifugal force
In Newtonian mechanics, the centrifugal force is an inertial force (also called a "fictitious" or "pseudo" force) directed away from the axis of rotation that appears to act on all objects when viewed in a rotating frame of reference.
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Chaosium
Chaosium Inc. is one of the oldest publishers of role-playing games still in existence.
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Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&DMead, Malcomson; ''Dungeons & Dragons'' FAQ or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.
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Dyson sphere
A Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its power output.
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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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Edward M. Lerner
Edward M. Lerner (born 1949) is an American author of science fiction, techno-thrillers, and popular science.
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Ernest Cline
Ernest Christy Cline (born March 29, 1972) is an American novelist, slam poet, and screenwriter.
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Fate of Worlds
Fate of Worlds (2012) is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner.
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First-person shooter
First-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre centered around gun and other weapon-based combat in a first-person perspective; that is, the player experiences the action through the eyes of the protagonist.
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Fleet of Worlds
Fleet of Worlds is a science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner, part of Niven's Known Space series.
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Galaxy Science Fiction
Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1980.
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General Products
In Larry Niven's fictional Known Space universe, General Products is a Pierson's Puppeteers company which produces various spacecraft components.
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Genetics
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms.
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Graphic novel
A graphic novel is a book made up of comics content.
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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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Halo (franchise)
Halo is a military science fiction first-person shooter video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed and developed by 343 Industries, a subsidiary of Microsoft Studios.
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Halo Array
The Halo Array is a group of fictional megastructures and superweapons in the Halo science fiction franchise, consisting of ring-shaped worlds known as Halos and a control station called the Ark.
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Halo.Bungie.Org
Halo.Bungie.Org, often referred to as HBO, is a fansite created in 1999 by Claude Errera (known online by the pseudonym "Louis Wu") and two associates as a news site for the Bungie video game Halo: Combat Evolved.
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Halo: Combat Evolved
Halo: Combat Evolved is a 2001 military science fiction first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios.
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Halo: The Fall of Reach
Halo: The Fall of Reach is a military science fiction novel by Eric Nylund, set in the ''Halo'' universe, and acts as a prequel to Halo: Combat Evolved, the first game in the series.
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Hardcover
A hardcover or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of Binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).
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Highway hypnosis
Highway hypnosis, also known as white line fever, is a mental state in which a person can drive a truck or other automobile great distances, responding to external events in the expected, safe and correct manner with no recollection of having consciously done so.
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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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Hyperdrive
Hyperdrive is a name given to certain methods of traveling faster-than-light (FTL) in science fiction.
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Iain Banks
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author.
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Known Space
Known Space is the fictional setting of about a dozen science fiction novels and several collections of short stories written by Larry Niven.
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Kzin
The Kzinti (singular Kzin) are a fictional, very warlike and bloodthirsty race of cat-like aliens in Larry Niven's Known Space series.
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Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer.
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Light
Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Light-year
The light-year is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and measures about 9.5 trillion kilometres or 5.9 trillion miles.
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Locus Award
The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards by the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus, a monthly based in Oakland, California, United States.
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Locus Award for Best Novel
Winners of the Locus Award for Best Novel, awarded by Locus magazine.
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Longevity
The word "longevity" is sometimes used as a synonym for "life expectancy" in demography.
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Louis Wu
Louis Gridley Wu, a fictional character, is the protagonist in the Ringworld series of books, written by Larry Niven.
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Luck
Luck is the experience of notably positive, negative, or improbable events.
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MacOS
macOS (previously and later) is a series of graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001.
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Man-Kzin Wars
The Man-Kzin Wars is a series of military science fiction short story collections (and is the name of the first collection), as well as the eponymous conflicts between mankind and the Kzinti that they detail.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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Megastructure
A megastructure is a very large artificial object, although the limits of precisely how large vary considerably.
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MGM Television
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television (alternatively Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and Digital Group (commonly known as MGM Television and then-known as MGM/UA Television) is an American television production/distribution studio launched on June 30, 1956 as "MGM-TV" as a division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. From 2005 to 2006, MGM television programs were distributed by Sony Pictures Television (as a result from a Sony-led consortium buying MGM). Since May 31, 2006, MGM Television has resumed sole production and distribution of its programs on television. MGM Television has rejoined the first-run syndication market for the first time in many years with Paternity Court.
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Michael R. Perry
Michael R. Perry (born April 15, 1963 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American television producer, television writer and screenwriter.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.
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Nebula Award
The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States.
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Nessus (Pierson's Puppeteer)
Nessus is a fictional character in Larry Niven's Known Space universe, a member of the technologically advanced alien race known to Humans as Pierson's Puppeteer, and amongst themselves as Citizens.
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Orbital (The Culture)
In Iain M. Banks' fictional Culture universe, an Orbital (sometimes also simply called an O or a small ring) is a purpose-built space habitat forming a ring typically around 3 million km (1.9 million miles) in diameter.
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Orbital ring
An orbital ring is a concept for a space elevator that consists of an artificial ring placed around the Earth that rotates at an angular rate that is faster than the rotation of the Earth.
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Paperback
A paperback is a type of book characterized by a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.
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Paradox Interactive
Paradox Interactive is a Swedish video game publisher based in Stockholm.
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Pierson's Puppeteers
Pierson's Puppeteers, often known just as Puppeteers, are a fictional alien race from American author Larry Niven's Known Space books.
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Planescape
Planescape is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, originally designed by Zeb Cook.
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Proper velocity
In relativity, proper velocity, also known as celerity, is an alternative to velocity for measuring motion.
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Ready Player One
Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline.
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Religion
Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.
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Reward system
The reward system is a group of neural structures responsible for incentive salience (i.e., motivation and "wanting", desire, or craving for a reward), associative learning (primarily positive reinforcement and classical conditioning), and positive emotions, particularly ones which involve pleasure as a core component (e.g., joy, euphoria and ecstasy).
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Ringworld (role-playing game)
The Ringworld science fiction role-playing game was published by Chaosium in 1984, using the Basic Role-Playing system for its rules and Larry Niven's Ringworld novels as a setting.
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Ringworld series
The Ringworld series is a series of science fiction novels written by American author Larry Niven.
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Ringworld's Children
Ringworld's Children is a 2004 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven, the fourth in the Ringworld series set in the Known Space universe.
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Robert Mandell
Robert Mandell is an American animated series and film writer, director and producer.
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Role-playing game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game and abbreviated to RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting.
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Scatterbrain (book)
Scatterbrain a collection of short stories, novel excerpts and essays by Larry Niven.
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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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Selective breeding
Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.
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Seven Seas Entertainment
Seven Seas Entertainment is a publishing company located in Los Angeles, California.
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Sigil (Dungeons & Dragons)
Sigil is a fictional city and the center of the Planescape campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
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Space Empires
Space Empires is a series of 4X turn-based strategy games by Malfador Machinations that allow the player to assume the role of the leader of a space-faring civilization.
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Speaker-to-Animals
Speaker-to-Animals (or later Chmeee) is a fictional character in the Ringworld series of books, written by Larry Niven.
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Star Ruler
Star Ruler is a space 4X / RTS hybrid developed and published by Blind Mind Studios.
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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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Stasis (fiction)
A stasis or stasis field, in science fiction, is a confined area of space in which time has been stopped or the contents have been rendered motionless.
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Stellaris (video game)
Stellaris is a 4X grand strategy video game developed and published by Paradox Interactive.
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Strata (novel)
Strata is a science fiction novel by Terry Pratchett.
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Strong interaction
In particle physics, the strong interaction is the mechanism responsible for the strong nuclear force (also called the strong force or nuclear strong force), and is one of the four known fundamental interactions, with the others being electromagnetism, the weak interaction, and gravitation.
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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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Teela Brown
Teela Brown is a fictional character created by Larry Niven in the Ringworld novels.
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Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works.
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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (usually referred to as F&SF) is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Fantasy House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press.
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The Ringworld Engineers
The Ringworld Engineers is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven.
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The Ringworld Throne
The Ringworld Throne is a science fiction novel by American writer Larry Niven, first published in 1996.
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Tor Books
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, a publishing company based in New York City.
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Tsunami Games
Tsunami Games (or Tsunami Media, Inc.) was an American video game developer and publisher founded in 1991 by former employees of Sierra Entertainment (then known as Sierra On-Line).
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Ultimate tensile strength
Ultimate tensile strength (UTS), often shortened to tensile strength (TS), ultimate strength, or Ftu within equations, is the capacity of a material or structure to withstand loads tending to elongate, as opposed to compressive strength, which withstands loads tending to reduce size.
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Universal Cable Productions
Universal Cable Productions (UCP) is a television production company operating within NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, all owned by Comcast.
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Vernier thruster
A vernier thruster is a rocket engine used on a spacecraft for fine adjustments to the attitude or velocity of a spacecraft.
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Virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) is an interactive computer-generated experience taking place within a simulated environment, that incorporates mainly auditory and visual, but also other types of sensory feedback like haptic.
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William R. Forstchen
William R. Forstchen (born October 11, 1950) is an American historian and author who began publishing in 1978 as a contributor to Boys' Life.
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Worldcon
Worldcon, or more formally the World Science Fiction Convention, the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS), is a science fiction convention.
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Xbox (console)
The Xbox is a home video game console and the first installment in the Xbox series of consoles manufactured by Microsoft.
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4X
4X is a genre of strategy-based video and board games in which players control an empire and "eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate".
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References
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