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212 relations: Adhocracy, AI takeover, Aldous Huxley, Alexander Bogdanov, Alfred Bester, Allegory, Allen Steele, Alternate history, An Enemy of the State, Anachrophobia, Anarcho-syndicalism, Anarchy, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Arthur C. Clarke, Assassination, Axis powers, BBC Books, Behavior, Ben Bova, Bene Gesserit, Blindsight (Watts novel), Brainwashing, Brave New World, Bug Jack Barron, C. J. Cherryh, Camp Concentration, Candle (novel), Capitalism, Carl Sagan, China Miéville, Christian fundamentalism, Citizen of the Galaxy, City of Pearl, Civil service, Cold War, Commonwealth of Nations, Communism, Conspiracy theory, Contact (novel), Cory Doctorow, Coyote (Steele novel), Cultural evolution, Culture series, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Cyteen, Daniel Suarez (author), David Brin, Desire, Dictatorship, Diplomat, ..., Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Downbelow Station, Dune (franchise), Dystopia, Earth (Brin novel), Ecology, Economic inequality, Economics, Ecotopia, Eon (novel), Ernest Callenbach, Eugenics, Evolution, F. Paul Wilson, Farthing (novel), Fascism, First contact (science fiction), For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs, Foundation's Triumph, Frank Herbert, Frederik Pohl, Freedom™, Fundamentalism, Galactic empire, Genetic engineering, Genre, George Lucas, George Orwell, Grand Tour (novel series), Greg Bear, H. Beam Piper, H. G. Wells, Hard to Be a God, Harry Harrison (writer), Heaven (Stewart and Cohen novel), Hermann Göring, Hostile Takeover Trilogy, Hugo Award, Hydraulic empire, Iain Banks, Ian Stewart (mathematician), Isaac Asimov, Jack Cohen (scientist), Jack London, Jennifer Government, Jo Walton, Joe Haldeman, John Barnes (author), Jonathan Morris (author), Karen Traviss, Keith Laumer, Ken MacLeod, Kim Stanley Robinson, L. Neil Smith, Legal person, Libertarian science fiction, Libertarian utopia, Libertarianism, Mack Reynolds, Make Room! Make Room!, Malorie Blackman, Margaret Atwood, Mars trilogy, Mass marketing, Max Barry, Militarism, Minority Report (film), National security, Nazi Germany, Nazism, Nepotism, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Norman Spinrad, Noughts & Crosses (novel series), One True, Pacifism, Paranoia, Patriarchy, Peter Watts (author), Philip K. Dick, Planned economy, Plutocracy, Politics, Poul Anderson, Prisoner of war, Propaganda, Proportional representation, Racism, Red Star (novel), Republic, Republic (Plato), Revolt in 2100, Revolution, Robert A. Heinlein, Roger MacBride Allen, S. Andrew Swann, Sarban (author), Scarcity, Science fiction, Scott Westerfeld, Secrecy, Slavery, Social credit, Social Darwinism, Social science, Social science fiction, Socialism, Space opera, Spock's Brain, Stanley Bennett Hough, Star Trek, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, Superpower, Surveillance, Tartarus Press, Techno-thriller, Telepathy, The Chanur novels, The Demolished Man, The Dispossessed, The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of, The Forever War, The Handmaid's Tale, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, The Iron Dream, The Iron Heel, The Killing of Worlds, The Man in the High Castle, The Man Who Sold the Moon, The Merchants of Souls, The Minority Report, The Modular Man, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The Probability Broach, The Sky So Big and Black, The Sound of His Horn, The Space Merchants, The Time Machine, Theocracy, Thomas M. Disch, Thomas More, Three Californias Trilogy, Time Enough for Love, Tom Cruise, Torture, Totalitarianism, Treason, United Kingdom, United States, Uplift (science fiction), Uplift Universe, Ursula K. Le Guin, Utopia (book), Utopian and dystopian fiction, Voting, We (novel), World government, World War II, Yevgeny Zamyatin, 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel). Expand index (162 more) »
Adhocracy
Adhocracy is a flexible, adaptable and informal form of organization that is defined by a lack of formal structure.
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AI takeover
An AI takeover is a hypothetical scenario in which artificial intelligence (AI) becomes the dominant form of intelligence on Earth, with computers or robots effectively taking control of the planet away from the human species.
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer, novelist, philosopher, and prominent member of the Huxley family.
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Alexander Bogdanov
Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov (Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Богда́нов; born Alyaksandr Malinovsky, Алякса́ндр Алякса́ндравіч Маліно́ўскі) (– 7 April 1928) was a Russian and Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and revolutionary of Belarusian ethnicity.
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Alfred Bester
Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books.
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Allegory
As a literary device, an allegory is a metaphor in which a character, place or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
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Allen Steele
Allen Mulherin Steele, Jr. (born January 19, 1958) is an American journalist and science fiction author.
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Alternate history
Alternate history or alternative history (Commonwealth English), sometimes abbreviated as AH, is a genre of fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently.
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An Enemy of the State
An Enemy of the State is a 1965 British TV series.
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Anachrophobia
Anachrophobia is a BBC Books original novel written by Jonathan Morris and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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Anarcho-syndicalism
Anarcho-syndicalism (also referred to as revolutionary syndicalism) is a theory of anarchism that views revolutionary industrial unionism or syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy and with that control influence in broader society.
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Anarchy
Anarchy is the condition of a society, entity, group of people, or a single person that rejects hierarchy.
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Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
The brothers Arkady (Аркадий; 28 August 1925 – 12 October 1991) and Boris (Бори́с; 14 April 1933 – 19 November 2012) Strugatsky (Струга́цкий; alternate spellings: Strugatskiy, Strugatski, Strugatskii) were Soviet-Russian science fiction authors who collaborated through most of their careers.
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Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
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Assassination
Assassination is the killing of a prominent person, either for political or religious reasons or for payment.
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Axis powers
The Axis powers (Achsenmächte; Potenze dell'Asse; 枢軸国 Sūjikukoku), also known as the Axis and the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied forces.
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BBC Books
BBC Books (also formerly known as BBC Publishing) is an imprint majority owned and managed by Penguin Random House through its Ebury Publishing division.
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Behavior
Behavior (American English) or behaviour (Commonwealth English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with themselves or their environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the (inanimate) physical environment.
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Ben Bova
Benjamin William "Ben" Bova (born November 8, 1932) is an American writer.
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Bene Gesserit
The Bene Gesserit are a key social, religious, and political force in Frank Herbert's fictional ''Dune'' universe.
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Blindsight (Watts novel)
Blindsight is a hard science fiction novel by Canadian writer Peter Watts, published by Tor Books in 2006.
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Brainwashing
Brainwashing (also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and re-education) is the concept that the human mind can be altered or controlled by certain psychological techniques.
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Brave New World
Brave New World is a dystopian novel written in 1931 by English author Aldous Huxley, and published in 1932.
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Bug Jack Barron
Bug Jack Barron is a 1969 science fiction novel by American writer Norman Spinrad.
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C. J. Cherryh
Carolyn Janice Cherry (born September 1, 1942), better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is an American writer of speculative fiction.
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Camp Concentration
Camp Concentration is a 1968 science fiction novel by American author Thomas M. Disch.
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Candle (novel)
Candle is a science fiction novel by John Barnes that was published in 2000, it is part of the author's Century Next Door series.
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Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
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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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China Miéville
China Tom Miéville (born 6 September 1972) is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer, political activist and academic.
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Christian fundamentalism
Christian fundamentalism began in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants at merriam-webster.com.
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Citizen of the Galaxy
Citizen of the Galaxy is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, originally serialized in Astounding Science Fiction (September, October, November, December 1957) and published in hardcover in 1957 as one of the Heinlein juveniles by Scribner's.
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City of Pearl
City of Pearl is a science fiction novel by Karen Traviss.
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Civil service
The civil service is independent of government and composed mainly of career bureaucrats hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).
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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.
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Communism
In political and social sciences, communism (from Latin communis, "common, universal") is the philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money and the state.
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Conspiracy theory
A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event or situation that invokes an unwarranted conspiracy, generally one involving an illegal or harmful act carried out by government or other powerful actors.
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Contact (novel)
Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan.
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Cory Doctorow
Cory Efram Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British on his wife, Alice Taylor's Twitter stream, 12 August 2011 blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.
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Coyote (Steele novel)
Coyote (2002) a science fiction novel by American writer Allen Steele.
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Cultural evolution
Cultural evolution is an evolutionary theory of social change.
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Culture series
The Culture series is a science fiction series written by Scottish author Iain M. Banks.
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Cyril M. Kornbluth
Cyril M. Kornbluth (July 2, 1923 – March 21, 1958) was an American science fiction author and a member of the Futurians.
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Cyteen
Cyteen (1988) is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh, set in her Alliance-Union universe.
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Daniel Suarez (author)
Daniel Suarez (born December 21, 1964) is an American information technology consultant turned author.
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David Brin
Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and author of science fiction.
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Desire
Desire is a sense of longing or hoping for a person, object, or outcome.
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Dictatorship
A dictatorship is an authoritarian form of government, characterized by a single leader or group of leaders with either no party or a weak party, little mass mobilization, and limited political pluralism.
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Diplomat
A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations.
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow.
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Downbelow Station
Downbelow Station is a science fiction novel by American writer C. J. Cherryh, published in 1981 by DAW Books.
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Dune (franchise)
Dune is a science fiction media franchise that originated with the 1965 novel Dune by Frank Herbert.
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Dystopia
A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- "bad" and τόπος "place"; alternatively, cacotopia,Cacotopia (from κακός kakos "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 19th century works kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.
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Earth (Brin novel)
Earth is a 1990 science fiction novel by American writer David Brin.
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Ecology
Ecology (from οἶκος, "house", or "environment"; -λογία, "study of") is the branch of biology which studies the interactions among organisms and their environment.
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Economic inequality
Economic inequality is the difference found in various measures of economic well-being among individuals in a group, among groups in a population, or among countries.
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Economics
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
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Ecotopia
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is a seminal utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975.
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Eon (novel)
Eon is a 1985 science fiction novel by Greg Bear.
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Ernest Callenbach
Ernest Callenbach (April 3, 1929 – April 16, 2012) was an American author, film critic, editor, and simple living adherent.
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Eugenics
Eugenics (from Greek εὐγενής eugenes 'well-born' from εὖ eu, 'good, well' and γένος genos, 'race, stock, kin') is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of a human population.
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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F. Paul Wilson
Francis Paul Wilson (born May 17, 1946 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres.
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Farthing (novel)
Farthing is an alternate history novel written by Jo Walton and published by Tor Books.
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Fascism
Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian ultranationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce, which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.
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First contact (science fiction)
First contact is a common science fiction theme about the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrial life, or of any sentient race's first encounter with another one, given they are from different planets or natural satellites.
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For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs
For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, written in 1938 but published for the first time in 2003.
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Foundation's Triumph
Foundation's Triumph (1999) is a science fiction novel by David Brin, set in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' universe.
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Frank Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels.
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Frederik Pohl
Frederik George Pohl Jr. (November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning more than 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led and articles and essays published in 2012.
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Freedom™
Freedom™, the sequel to Daemon, is the second of a two-part novel, by the author Daniel Suarez, about a distributed, persistent computer application, known as The Daemon, that begins to change the real world after the original programmer's death.
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Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism usually has a religious connotation that indicates unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs.
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Galactic empire
Galactic empires are a common trope used in science fantasy and science fiction, particularly in works known as 'space operas'.
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Genetic engineering
Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification or genetic manipulation, is the direct manipulation of an organism's genes using biotechnology.
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Genre
Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.
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George Lucas
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur.
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic whose work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
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Grand Tour (novel series)
The Grand Tour is a series of novels written by American science fiction author Ben Bova.
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Greg Bear
Gregory Dale "Greg" Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction.
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H. Beam Piper
Henry Beam Piper (March 23, 1904 –) was an American science fiction author.
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells.
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Hard to Be a God
Hard to Be a God (Трудно быть богом, Trudno byt' bogom) is a 1964 science fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe.
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Harry Harrison (writer)
Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction author, known for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966).
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Heaven (Stewart and Cohen novel)
Heaven is a science fiction novel written by Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.
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Hermann Göring
Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering;; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German political and military leader as well as one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party (NSDAP) that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.
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Hostile Takeover Trilogy
Hostile Takeover is a science fiction trilogy (actually one long novel in three parts) written by S. Andrew Swann and published by DAW Books.
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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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Hydraulic empire
A hydraulic empire (also known as a hydraulic despotism, or water monopoly empire) is a social or government structure which maintains power and control through exclusive control over access to water.
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Iain Banks
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author.
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Ian Stewart (mathematician)
Ian Nicholas Stewart (born 24 September 1945) is a British mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
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Jack Cohen (scientist)
Jack Cohen, FRSB (born 19 September 1933 in Norwich, United Kingdom) is a British reproductive biologist also known for his science books and involvement with science fiction.
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Jack London
John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist.
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Jennifer Government
Jennifer Government is a novel written by Max Barry.
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Jo Walton
Jo Walton (born December 1, 1964) is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet.
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Joe Haldeman
Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author.
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John Barnes (author)
John Barnes (born 1957 in Angola, Indiana) is an American science fiction author.
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Jonathan Morris (author)
Jonathan Morris (born in Taunton, England), is an author who writes various kinds of Doctor Who spin-off material.
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Karen Traviss
Karen Traviss is a science fiction author from Wiltshire, England.
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Keith Laumer
John Keith Laumer (–) was an American science fiction author.
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Ken MacLeod
Kenneth Macrae MacLeod (born 2 August 1954) is a Scottish science fiction writer.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American writer of science fiction.
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L. Neil Smith
Lester Neil Smith III (born May 12, 1946), better known as L. Neil Smith, is an American libertarian science fiction author and political activist.
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Legal person
A legal person (in legal contexts often simply person, less ambiguously legal entity) is any human or non-human entity, in other words, any human being, firm, or government agency that is recognized as having privileges and obligations, such as having the ability to enter into contracts, to sue, and to be sued.
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Libertarian science fiction
Libertarian science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that focuses on the politics and social order implied by right libertarian philosophies with an emphasis on individualism and private ownership of the means of production—and in some cases, no state whatsoever.
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Libertarian utopia
There have been many attempts and proposals to create a libertarian utopia.
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Libertarianism
Libertarianism (from libertas, meaning "freedom") is a collection of political philosophies and movements that uphold liberty as a core principle.
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Mack Reynolds
Dallas McCord "Mack" Reynolds (November 11, 1917 – January 30, 1983) was an American science fiction writer.
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Make Room! Make Room!
Make Room! Make Room! is a 1966 science fiction novel written by Harry Harrison exploring the consequences of unchecked population growth on society.
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Malorie Blackman
Malorie Blackman, OBE (born 8 February 1962), is a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015.
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist.
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Mars trilogy
The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicles the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries.
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Mass marketing
Mass marketing is a market strategy in which a firm decides to ignore market segment differences and appeal the whole market with one offer or one strategy, which supports the idea of broadcasting a message that will reach the largest number of people possible.
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Max Barry
Max Barry (born 18 March 1973) is an Australian author.
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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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Minority Report (film)
Minority Report is a 2002 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick.
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National security
National security refers to the security of a nation state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, and is regarded as a duty of government.
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Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).
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Nazism
National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.
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Nepotism
Nepotism is based on favour granted to relatives in various fields, including business, politics, entertainment, sports, religion and other activities.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell.
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Norman Spinrad
Norman Richard Spinrad (born September 15, 1940) is an American science fiction author, essayist, and critic.
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Noughts & Crosses (novel series)
Noughts & Crosses is a series by English author Malorie Blackman of young adult novels, including two novellas, set in a fictional dystopia.
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One True
One True is the fictional hegemonic software program that takes control of individual human minds and entire human societies in John Barnes' two Meme Wars novels Candle and The Sky So Big and Black; the novel Kaleidoscope Century details the years leading up to its existence and later (it finishes after the events described in The Sky So Big and Black).
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Pacifism
Pacifism is opposition to war, militarism, or violence.
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Paranoia
Paranoia is an instinct or thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality.
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Patriarchy
Patriarchy is a social system in which males hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.
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Peter Watts (author)
Peter Watts (born 1958) is a Canadian science fiction author and former marine-mammal biologist.
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Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer known for his work in science fiction.
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Planned economy
A planned economy is a type of economic system where investment and the allocation of capital goods take place according to economy-wide economic and production plans.
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Plutocracy
A plutocracy (πλοῦτος,, 'wealth' + κράτος,, 'rule') or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income.
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Politics
Politics (from Politiká, meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.
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Poul Anderson
Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was an American science fiction author who began his career in the 1940s and continued to write into the 21st century.
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Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
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Propaganda
Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.
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Proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) characterizes electoral systems by which divisions into an electorate are reflected proportionately into the elected body.
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Racism
Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.
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Red Star (novel)
Red Star is Alexander Bogdanov's 1908 science fiction novel about a communist society on Mars.
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Republic
A republic (res publica) is a form of government in which the country is considered a "public matter", not the private concern or property of the rulers.
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Republic (Plato)
The Republic (Πολιτεία, Politeia; Latin: Res Publica) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice (δικαιοσύνη), the order and character of the just, city-state, and the just man.
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Revolt in 2100
Revolt in 2100 is a 1953 science fiction collection by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, part of his Future History series.
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Revolution
In political science, a revolution (Latin: revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental and relatively sudden change in political power and political organization which occurs when the population revolt against the government, typically due to perceived oppression (political, social, economic).
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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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Roger MacBride Allen
Roger MacBride Allen (born September 26, 1957) is an American science fiction author.
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S. Andrew Swann
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Sarban (author)
John William Wall (6 November 1910 – 11 April 1989), pen name Sarban, was a British writer and diplomat.
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Scarcity
Scarcity refers to the limited availability of a commodity, which may be in demand in the market.
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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 Westerfeld
Scott David Westerfeld (born May 5, 1963) is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known as the author of the Uglies and the Leviathan series.
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Secrecy
Secrecy (also called clandestinity or furtiveness) is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other individuals.
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Slavery
Slavery is any system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals, as a de jure form of property.
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Social credit
Social credit is an interdisciplinary distributive philosophy developed by C. H. Douglas (1879–1952), a British engineer who published a book by that name in 1924.
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Social Darwinism
The term Social Darwinism is used to refer to various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection to human society.
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Social science
Social science is a major category of academic disciplines, concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society.
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Social science fiction
Social science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction, usually (but not necessarily) soft science fiction, concerned less with technology/space opera and more with speculation about society.
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Socialism
Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.
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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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Spock's Brain
"Spock's Brain" is the first episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek, first broadcast on September 20, 1968.
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Stanley Bennett Hough
Stanley Bennett Hough (25 February 1917 – February 1998) was a British author of science fiction, for which he used the pseudonym Rex Gordon.
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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 Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.
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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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Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein.
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Superpower
Superpower is a term used to describe a state with a dominant position, which is characterised by its extensive ability to exert influence or project power on a global scale.
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Surveillance
Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior, activities, or other changing information for the purpose of influencing, managing, directing, or protecting people.
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Tartarus Press
Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher based near Leyburn, Yorkshire, UK.
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Techno-thriller
A techno-thriller (also known as technothrillers) is a hybrid genre drawing from science fiction, thrillers, spy fiction, action, and war novels.
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Telepathy
Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.
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The Chanur novels
The Chanur novels is a series of five science fiction novels, forming three separate stories, written by American author C. J. Cherryh and published by DAW Books between 1981 and 1992.
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The Demolished Man
The Demolished Man is a science fiction novel by American writer Alfred Bester, which was the first Hugo Award winner in 1953.
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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 Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of
The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World (1998) is an overview of the interactions between science fiction and the real world, written by Thomas M. Disch, a noted author in the field.
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The Forever War
The Forever War (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story of soldiers fighting an interstellar war between Man and the Taurans.
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood,.
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy
The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1975.
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The Iron Dream
The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by American author Norman Spinrad.
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The Iron Heel
The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.
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The Killing of Worlds
The Killing of Worlds is a science fiction novel by American writer Scott Westerfeld.
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The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle (1962) is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.
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The Man Who Sold the Moon
"The Man Who Sold the Moon" is a science fiction novella by American author Robert A. Heinlein, written in 1949 and published in 1950.
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The Merchants of Souls
The Merchants of Souls is a 2001 science fiction novel by John Barnes and the third book in the Thousand Cultures series.
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The Minority Report
"The Minority Report" is a 1956 science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in Fantastic Universe.
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The Modular Man
The Modular Man is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger MacBride Allen.
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science-fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, about a lunar colony's revolt against rule from Earth.
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The Probability Broach
The Probability Broach is a 1979 novel by American science fiction writer L. Neil Smith.
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The Sky So Big and Black
The Sky So Big and Black is a science fiction novel by John Barnes that was published in 2002.
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The Sound of His Horn
The Sound of His Horn is a 1952 dystopian time travel/alternative history novel by the senior British diplomat John William Wall, written under the pseudonym Sarban.
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The Space Merchants
The Space Merchants is a science fiction novel by American writers Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth in 1952.
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The Time Machine
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative.
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Theocracy
Theocracy is a form of government in which a deity is the source from which all authority derives.
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Thomas M. Disch
Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction author and poet.
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Thomas More
Sir Thomas More (7 February 14786 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.
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Three Californias Trilogy
The Three Californias Trilogy (also known as the Wild Shore Triptych and the Orange County Trilogy) consists of three books by Kim Stanley Robinson, which depict three different possible futures of Orange County, California.
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Time Enough for Love
Time Enough for Love is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in 1973.
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Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV; July 3, 1962) is an American actor and producer.
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Torture
Torture (from the Latin tortus, "twisted") is the act of deliberately inflicting physical or psychological pain in order to fulfill some desire of the torturer or compel some action from the victim.
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Totalitarianism
Benito Mussolini Totalitarianism is a political concept where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to control every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible.
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Treason
In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's nation or sovereign.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Uplift (science fiction)
In science fiction, uplift is a developmental process to transform a certain species of animals into more intelligent beings by other, already-intelligent beings.
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Uplift Universe
The Uplift Universe is a fictional universe created by American science fiction writer David Brin.
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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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Utopia (book)
Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin.
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Utopian and dystopian fiction
The utopia and its opposite, the dystopia, are genres of speculative fiction that explore social and political structures.
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Voting
Voting is a method for a group, such as, a meeting or an electorate to make a decision or express an opinion, usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns.
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We (novel)
We (translit) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, completed in 1921.
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World government
World government or global government is the notion of a common political authority for all of humanity, yielding a global government and a single state that exercises authority over the entire Earth.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (p; 20 January (Julian) / 1 February (Gregorian), 1884 – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire.
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2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke.
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