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67 relations: A Martian Odyssey, A Princess of Mars, A True Story, Alien invasion, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Camille Flammarion, Carl Sagan, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, Cosmic pluralism, Democritus, Early modern period, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ender's Game, Extraterrestrial life, Flash Gordon (serial), Fritz Leiber, Gary Westfahl, George Henry Weiss, Golden Age of Science Fiction, Greenwood Publishing Group, Grey alien, H. G. Wells, Hainish Cycle, Hal Clement, Hard science fiction, Heliocentrism, Henry More, History of science fiction, Humanoid, I.B. Tauris, J.-H. Rosny, Johannes Kepler, John Milton, List of cryptids, List of fictional extraterrestrials, List of films featuring extraterrestrials, Lucian, Mars, Olaf Stapledon, Orson Scott Card, Outer space, Outline of life forms, Paradise Lost, Parallel evolution, Parasites in fiction, Robert A. Heinlein, Science fiction, Search for extraterrestrial intelligence, Solar System, Somnium (novel), ..., Spaceballs, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Star Maker, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Starship Troopers, The Chase (Star Trek: The Next Generation), The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, The Wanderer (Leiber novel), The War of the Worlds, Ufology, Unidentified flying object, Ursula K. Le Guin, Voltaire, Washington Irving. Expand index (17 more) »
A Martian Odyssey
"A Martian Odyssey" is a science fiction short story by American writer Stanley G. Weinbaum originally published in the July 1934 issue of Wonder Stories.
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A Princess of Mars
A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series.
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A True Story
A True Story (Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, Alēthē diēgēmata; or) is a novel written in the second century AD by Lucian of Samosata, a Greek-speaking author of Syrian descent.
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Alien invasion
The alien invasion or space invasion is a usual part of science fiction stories and film, in which extraterrestrials invade the Earth either to exterminate and supplant human life, enslave it under an intense state, harvest people for food, steal the planet's resources, or destroy the planet altogether.
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Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (11 February 16579 January 1757), also called Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle, was a French author and an influential member of three of the academies of the Institut de France, noted especially for his accessible treatment of scientific topics during the unfolding of the Age of Enlightenment.
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Camille Flammarion
Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author.
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Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.
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Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes) is a popular science book by French author Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, published in 1686.
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Cosmic pluralism
Cosmic pluralism, the plurality of worlds, or simply pluralism, describes the philosophical belief in numerous "worlds" (planets, dwarf planets or natural satellites) in addition to Earth (possibly an infinite number), which may harbour extraterrestrial life.
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Democritus
Democritus (Δημόκριτος, Dēmókritos, meaning "chosen of the people") was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher primarily remembered today for his formulation of an atomic theory of the universe.
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Early modern period
The early modern period of modern history follows the late Middle Ages of the post-classical era.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American fiction writer best known for his celebrated and prolific output in the adventure and science-fiction genres.
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Ender's Game
Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card.
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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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Flash Gordon (serial)
Flash Gordon is a 1936 science fiction film serial.
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Fritz Leiber
Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.
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Gary Westfahl
Gary Wesley Westfahl (born May 7, 1951) is a scholarly author and reviewer of science fiction.
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George Henry Weiss
Henry George Weiss (1898–1946) was an American poet, writer and novelist.
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Golden Age of Science Fiction
The first Golden Age of Science Fiction—often recognized in the United States as the period from 1938 to 1946—was an era during which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic science fiction stories were published.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
ABC-CLIO/Greenwood is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-CLIO.
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Grey alien
Grey aliens, also referred to as "Alien Greys", "Greys", "Grays" and "Roswell Greys", allegedly are extraterrestrial beings whose existence is discussed in ufological, paranormal, and New Age communities, and who are named for their unique skin color.
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells.
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Hainish Cycle
The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Hal Clement
Harry Clement Stubbs (May 30, 1922 – October 29, 2003), better known by the pen name Hal Clement, was an American science fiction writer and a leader of the hard science fiction subgenre.
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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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Heliocentrism
Heliocentrism is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System.
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Henry More
Henry More (12 October 1614 – 1 September 1687) was an English philosopher of the Cambridge Platonist school.
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History of science fiction
The literary genre of science fiction is diverse, and its exact definition remains a contested question among both scholars and devotees.
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Humanoid
A humanoid (from English human and -oid "resembling") is something that has an appearance resembling a human without actually being one.
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I.B. Tauris
I.B. Tauris (usually typeset as I.B.Tauris) was an independent publishing house with offices in London and New York City.
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J.-H. Rosny
J.-H. Rosny was the pseudonym of the brothers Joseph Henri Honoré Boex (1856–1940) and Séraphin Justin François Boex (1859–1948), both born in Brussels.
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer.
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John Milton
John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.
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List of cryptids
This is a list of cryptids (from the Greek κρύπτω, krypto, meaning "hide" or "hidden") notable within cryptozoology, a pseudoscience that presumes the existence of animals and plants that have been derived from anecdotal or other evidence considered insufficient by mainstream science.
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List of fictional extraterrestrials
This list of fictional extraterrestrial species is subsidiary to the lists of fictional species and is a collection of various notable extraterrestrial species that appear in various works of fiction.
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List of films featuring extraterrestrials
This is a list of films that feature extraterrestrial life.
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Lucian
Lucian of Samosata (125 AD – after 180 AD) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist and rhetorician who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal.
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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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Olaf Stapledon
William Olaf Stapledon (10 May 1886 – 6 September 1950) – known as Olaf Stapledon – was a British philosopher and author of science fiction.
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Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist.
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Outer space
Outer space, or just space, is the expanse that exists beyond the Earth and between celestial bodies.
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Outline of life forms
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to life forms: Life form (also, lifeform) – entity that is living, such as plants (flora) and animals (fauna).
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674).
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Parallel evolution
Parallel evolution is the development of a similar trait in related, but distinct, species descending from the same ancestor, but from different clades.
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Parasites in fiction
Parasites appear frequently in fiction, from ancient times onwards as seen in mythical figures like the blood-drinking Lilith, with a flowering in the nineteenth century.
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Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (See also the biography at the end of For Us, the Living, 2004 edition, p. 261. July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science-fiction writer.
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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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Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other planets.
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Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
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Somnium (novel)
Somnium (Latin for "The Dream") is a novel written in 1608, in Latin, by Johannes Kepler.
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Spaceballs
Spaceballs is a 1987 American comic science fiction film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks.
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Stanley G. Weinbaum
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction writer.
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Star Maker
Star Maker is a science fiction novel by British writer Olaf Stapledon, published in 1937.
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Star Trek
Star Trek is an American media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation (abbreviated as TNG and ST:TNG) is an American science-fiction television series in the Star Trek franchise created by Gene Roddenberry that ran from 1987 to 1994.
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Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by U.S. writer Robert A. Heinlein.
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The Chase (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
"The Chase" is the 146th episode of the syndicated American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 20th episode of the sixth season.
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The Dispossessed
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia is a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, set in the same fictional universe as that of The Left Hand of Darkness (the Hainish Cycle).
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The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness is a science fiction novel by U.S. writer Ursula K. Le Guin, published in 1969.
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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
is a 10th-century Japanese monogatari (fictional prose narrative) containing Japanese folklore.
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The Wanderer (Leiber novel)
The Wanderer is a 1964 science fiction novel by Fritz Leiber, published as a paperback original by Ballantine Books.
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The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells first serialised in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK and by Cosmopolitan magazine in the US.
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Ufology
Ufology is the study of reports, visual records, physical evidence, and other phenomena related to unidentified flying objects (UFO).
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Unidentified flying object
An unidentified flying object or "UFO" is an object observed in the sky that is not readily identified.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American novelist.
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Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.
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Washington Irving
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
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