Table of Contents
684 relations: A Princess of Mars, A Trip to the Moon, A True Story, Academic conference, Academic degree, Academic journal, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, Action film, Adventure film, Advertising, Aesthetic interpretation, Africanfuturism, Afrofuturism, Age of Enlightenment, Airplane, Albany, New York, Aldous Huxley, Alexandra Palace, Alien (film), Alien invasion, Alterity, Alternate history, Amazing Stories, Amazon Prime Video, American Museum of Natural History, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Anatomy of Wonder, Ancient astronauts, Ancient history, Andrew Milner, Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale, Animation, Anne McCaffrey, Ansible, Anthropological science fiction, Anthropology, Anti-statism, Ape, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Armageddon 2419 A.D., Art, Arthur C. Clarke, Artificial intelligence, Artist, Artistic merit, Astronomy, Athanasius Kircher, Attitude (psychology), Aurora Awards, Australian science fiction, ... Expand index (634 more) »
- Speculative fiction
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 Trip to the Moon
A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure trick film written, directed and produced by Georges Méliès.
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A True Story
A True Story (Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, Alēthē diēgēmata; or), also translated as True History, is a long novella or short novel written in the second century AD by the Syrian author Lucian of Samosata.
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Academic conference
An academic conference or scientific conference (also congress, symposium, workshop, or meeting) is an event for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their scholarly work.
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Academic degree
An academic degree is a qualification awarded to a student upon successful completion of a course of study in higher education, usually at a college or university.
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Academic journal
An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published.
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Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films is an American non-profit organization established in 1972 dedicated to the advancement of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video.
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Action film
The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.
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Adventure film
An adventure film is a genre of film.
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Advertising
Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service.
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Aesthetic interpretation
In the philosophy of art, an interpretation is an explanation of the meaning of a work of art.
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Africanfuturism
Africanfuturism is a cultural aesthetic and philosophy of science that centers on the fusion of African culture, history, mythology, point of view, with technology based in Africa and not limiting to the diaspora.
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Afrofuturism
Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic, philosophy of science, and history that explores the intersection of the African diaspora culture with science and technology.
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Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.
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Airplane
An airplane (North American English) or aeroplane (Commonwealth English), informally plane, is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller, or rocket engine.
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Albany, New York
Albany is the capital and oldest city in the U.S. state of New York, and the seat of and most populous city in Albany County.
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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher.
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Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace is an entertainment and sports venue in North London, situated between Wood Green and Muswell Hill in the London Borough of Haringey.
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Alien (film)
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon.
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Alien invasion
Alien invasion or space invasion is a common feature in science fiction stories and films, in which extraterrestrial lifeforms invade Earth to exterminate and supplant human life, enslave it, harvest people for food, steal the planet's resources, or destroy the planet altogether.
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Alterity
Alterity is a philosophical and anthropological term meaning "otherness", that is, the "other of two" (Latin alter).
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Alternate history
Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.
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Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories is an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing.
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Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video, or simply Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming and rental service of Amazon offered both as a stand-alone service and as part of Amazon's Prime subscription.
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American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930.
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Anatomy of Wonder
Anatomy of Wonder — A Critical Guide to Science Fiction is a reference book by Neil Barron.
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Ancient astronauts
Ancient astronauts (or ancient aliens) refer to a pseudoscientific set of beliefs that hold that intelligent extraterrestrial beings visited Earth and made contact with humans in antiquity and prehistoric times.
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Ancient history
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity.
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Andrew Milner
Andrew John Milner (born 9 September 1950) is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Monash University.
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Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale
Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale (Andromeda Nebula), is a science fiction novel by the Soviet writer and paleontologist Ivan Yefremov,Sergey Klimanov's Home Page.
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Animation
Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.
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Anne McCaffrey
Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series.
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Ansible
An ansible is a category of fictional devices or technology capable of near-instantaneous or faster-than-light communication.
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Anthropological science fiction
The anthropologist Leon E. Stover says of science fiction's relationship to anthropology: "Anthropological science fiction enjoys the philosophical luxury of providing answers to the question "What is man?" while anthropology the science is still learning how to frame it".
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Anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans.
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Anti-statism
Anti-statism is an approach to social, economic or political philosophy that opposes the influence of the state over society.
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Ape
Apes (collectively Hominoidea) are a clade of Old World simians native to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia (though they were more widespread in Africa, most of Asia, and Europe in prehistory), which together with its sister group Cercopithecidae form the catarrhine clade, cladistically making them monkeys.
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has collapsed. Science fiction and Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction are speculative fiction.
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Armageddon 2419 A.D.
Armageddon 2419 A.D. is a science fiction novella by Philip Francis Nowlan that first appeared in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories.
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Art
Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.
Arthur C. Clarke
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 191719 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.
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Artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.
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Artistic merit
Artistic merit is the artistic quality or value of any given work of art, music, film, literature, sculpture or painting.
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Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.
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Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 27 November 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.
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Attitude (psychology)
An attitude "is a summary evaluation of an object of thought.
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Aurora Awards
The Aurora Awards (Prix Aurora-Boréal) are a set of primarily literary awards given annually for the best Canadian science fiction or fantasy professional and fan works and achievements from the previous year.
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Australian science fiction
Australia, unlike Europe, does not have a long history in the genre of science fiction.
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Author
In legal discourse, an author is the creator of an original work, whether that work is in written, graphic, or recorded medium.
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Authoritarianism
Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.
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Avatar (2009 film)
Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron.
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Away (TV series)
Away is an American science fiction drama television series starring Hilary Swank.
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B movie
A B movie (American English), or B film (British English), is a type of low-budget commercial motion picture.
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Babylon 5
Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd.
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Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble Booksellers is an American bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States.
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Barsoom
Barsoom is a fictional representation of the planet Mars created by American pulp fiction author Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Battle
A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size.
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BBC Two
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
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Bengali science fiction
Bengali science fiction (বাংলা বিজ্ঞান কল্পকাহিনী Bangla Bigyan Kalpakahini) is a part of Bengali literature containing science fiction elements.
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Big Hero 6 (film)
Big Hero 6 is a 2014 American animated superhero film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
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Biological engineering
Biological engineering or bioengineering is the application of principles of biology and the tools of engineering to create usable, tangible, economically viable products.
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Biology
Biology is the scientific study of life.
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Biology in fiction
Biology appears in fiction, especially but not only in science fiction, both in the shape of real aspects of the science, used as themes or plot devices, and in the form of fictional elements, whether fictional extensions or applications of biological theory, or through the invention of fictional organisms.
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Biopunk
Biopunk (a portmanteau of "biotechnology" or "biology" and "punk") is a subgenre of science fiction that focuses on biotechnology.
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Biotechnology
Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services.
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Black science fiction
Black science fiction or black speculative fiction is an umbrella term that covers a variety of activities within the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres where people of the African diaspora take part or are depicted.
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Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples.
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Blade Runner (franchise)
Blade Runner is an American cyberpunk media franchise originating from the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, about the character of Rick Deckard.
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Book series
A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group.
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Borazon
Borazon is a brand name of a cubic form of boron nitride (cBN).
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Botany
Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.
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Brad W. Foster
Brad W. Foster (born April 26, 1955) is an American illustrator, cartoonist, writer and publisher.
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Brain–computer interface
A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a brain–machine interface (BMI), is a direct communication link between the brain's electrical activity and an external device, most commonly a computer or robotic limb.
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Brave New Words
Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction is a book published in 2007 by the Oxford University Press.
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Brave New World
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932.
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Brazilian science fiction
Brazilian science fiction has been a part of Brazilian literature since the mid 19th century.
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Brian Aldiss
Brian Wilson Aldiss (18 August 1925 – 19 August 2017) was an English writer, artist and anthology editor, best known for science fiction novels and short stories.
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British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.
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Broadcast syndication
Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast television shows or radio programs to multiple television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air on.
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Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.
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Buck Rogers
Buck Rogers is a science fiction adventure hero and feature comic strip created by Philip Francis Nowlan first appearing in daily U.S. newspapers on January 7, 1929, and subsequently appearing in Sunday newspapers, international newspapers, books and multiple media with adaptations including radio in 1932, a serial film, a television series, and other formats.
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Burning Chrome
"Burning Chrome" is a science fiction short story by Canadian-American writer William Gibson, first published in Omni in July 1982.
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Business Insider
Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.
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Canadian science fiction
A strong element in contemporary Canadian culture is rich, diverse, thoughtful and witty science fiction.
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Canopus in Argos
Canopus in Argos: Archives is a sequence of five science fiction novels by Nobel laureate author Doris Lessing, which portray a number of societies at different stages of development, over a great period of time.
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Captain Video and His Video Rangers
Captain Video and His Video Rangers is an American science fiction television series that aired on the DuMont Television Network and was the first series of its genre on American television.
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Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, and science communicator.
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Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut.
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CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.
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Century
A century is a period of 100 years.
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Cf.
The abbreviation cf. (short for either Latin confer or conferatur, both meaning 'compare') is used in writing to refer the reader to other material to make a comparison with the topic being discussed.
Character (arts)
In fiction, a character or personage, is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, radio or television series, music, film, or video game).
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Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.
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Chesley Awards
The Chesley Awards are the "pinnacle award" for art in the science fiction and fantasy genre.
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Childhood's End
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke.
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Children's television series
Children's television series (or children's television shows) are television programs designed specifically for children.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Chinese science fiction
Chinese science fiction (traditional Chinese: 科學幻想, simplified Chinese: 科学幻想, pinyin: kēxué huànxiǎng, commonly abbreviated to 科幻 kēhuàn, literally scientific fantasy) is genre of literature that concerns itself with hypothetical future social and technological developments in the Sinosphere.
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Chris Carter (screenwriter)
Christopher Carl Carter (born October 13, 1956) is an American television and film producer, director and writer who gained fame in the 1990s as the creator of the Fox science fiction supernatural drama series The X-Files.
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Christian science fiction
Christian science fiction is a subgenre of both Christian literature and science fiction, in which there are strong Christian themes, or which are written from a Christian point of view.
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Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.
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City
A city is a human settlement of a notable size.
Cliché
A cliché is a saying, idea, or element of an artistic work that has become overused to the point of losing its original meaning or effect, even to the point of being weird, irritating, or bland, especially when at some earlier time it was considered meaningful or novel.
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Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Climate fiction
Climate fiction (sometimes shortened to cli-fi) is literature that deals with climate change. Science fiction and climate fiction are speculative fiction.
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Climate variability and change
Climate variability includes all the variations in the climate that last longer than individual weather events, whereas the term climate change only refers to those variations that persist for a longer period of time, typically decades or more.
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Cloning
Cloning is the process of producing individual organisms with identical genomes, either by natural or artificial means.
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Cloud Atlas (novel)
Cloud Atlas, published in 2004, is the third novel by British author David Mitchell.
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Comedy
Comedy is a genre of fiction that consists of discourses or works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. The term originated in ancient Greece: In Athenian democracy, the public opinion of voters was influenced by political satire performed by comic poets in theaters.
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Comedy film
Comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor.
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Comic book convention
A comic book convention or comic con is a fan convention emphasizing comic books and comic book culture, in which comic book fans gather to meet creators, experts, and each other.
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Comic book letter column
A comic book letter column is a section of an American comic book where readers' letters to the publisher appear.
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Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions.
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Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon
The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon (L’Autre monde ou les états et empires de la Lune) was the first of three satirical novels written by Cyrano de Bergerac.
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Communism
Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.
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Community
A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with a shared socially significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity.
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Computer
A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).
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Computer monitor
A computer monitor is an output device that displays information in pictorial or textual form.
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Computer virus
A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code into those programs.
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Consciousness
Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence.
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Conspiracy theory
A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy by powerful and sinister groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable.
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Convention (meeting)
A convention (or event), in the sense of a meeting, is a gathering of individuals who meet at an arranged place and time in order to discuss or engage in some common interest.
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Convention (norm)
A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, social norms, or other criteria, often taking the form of a custom.
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Conversation
Conversation is interactive communication between two or more people.
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Cordwainer Smith
Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913 – August 6, 1966), better known by his pen-name Cordwainer Smith, was an American author known for his science fiction works.
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Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American writer who authored twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and postapocalyptic genres.
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Course (education)
In higher education, a course is a unit of teaching that typically lasts one academic term, is led by one or more instructors (teachers or professors), and has a fixed roster of students.
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Creativity
Creativity is the ability to form novel and valuable ideas or works using the imagination.
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Critic
A critic is a person who communicates an assessment and an opinion of various forms of creative works such as art, literature, music, cinema, theater, fashion, architecture, and food.
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Criticism
Criticism is the construction of a judgement about the negative or positive qualities of someone or something.
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Croatian science fiction
Croatian science fiction consists mostly of literature, novels and stories published in various magazines and story collections, and some movies and graphic novels.
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Cultural diversity
Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to monoculture.
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Cultural impact of Star Wars
George Lucas's science fiction multi-film Star Wars saga has had a significant impact on modern popular culture.
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Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting said to focus on a combination of "low-life and high tech".
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Cyberspace
Cyberspace is an interconnected digital environment.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist.
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Czech science fiction and fantasy
Science fiction and fantasy in the Czech Republic has a long and varied history.
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Czechs
The Czechs (Češi,; singular Czech, masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka), or the Czech people (Český lid), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.
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Damien Broderick
Damien Francis Broderick (born 22 April 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 74 books.
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Damon Knight
Damon Francis Knight (September 19, 1922 – April 15, 2002) was an American science fiction author, editor, and critic.
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Darko Suvin
Darko Ronald Suvin (born Darko Šlesinger) is a Canadian academic, writer and critic who became a professor (now emeritusDavid Johnston,, McGill Reporter, Volume 33, No. 05, November 2, 2000) at McGill University in Montreal.
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David Barnett (writer)
David Barnett (born 11 January 1970) is an English journalist and author.
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David G. Hartwell
David Geddes Hartwell (July 10, 1941 – January 20, 2016) was an American critic, publisher, and editor of thousands of science fiction and fantasy novels.
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David Langford
David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953) is a British author, editor, and critic, largely active within the science fiction field.
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David Mitchell (author)
David Stephen Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an English novelist, television writer, and screenwriter.
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David Wingrove
David Wingrove (born 1 September 1954) is a British science fiction writer.
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Decade
A decade is a period of ten years.
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Definitions of science fiction
There have been many attempts at defining science fiction.
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Determination
Determination is a positive emotional feeling that promotes persevering towards a difficult goal in spite of obstacles.
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Dieselpunk
Dieselpunk is a retrofuturistic subgenre of science fiction similar to steampunk or cyberpunk that combines the aesthetics of the diesel-based technology of the interwar period through to the 1950s with retro-futuristic technology and postmodern sensibilities.
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Dissent (American magazine)
Dissent is an American Left intellectual magazine founded in 1954.
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DK (publisher)
Dorling Kindersley Limited (branded as DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (retrospectively titled Blade Runner: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in some later printings) is a 1968 dystopian science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick.
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.
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Donovan's Brain (film)
Donovan's Brain is an independently made 1953 American black-and-white science fiction horror film, produced by Tom Gries for Allan Dowling Productions, directed by Felix Feist, that stars Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Davis and Steve Brodie.
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Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing (Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist.
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Dragonflight (novel)
Dragonflight is a science fiction novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey.
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Dragonriders of Pern
Dragonriders of Pern is a science fantasy series written primarily by American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey, who initiated it in 1967.
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Drama (film and television)
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.
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Dune (novel)
Dune is a 1965 science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials (1963–64 novel Dune World and 1965 novel Prophet of Dune) in Analog magazine.
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Dying Earth (genre)
Dying Earth is a subgenre of science fantasy or science fiction which takes place in the far future at either the end of life on Earth or the end of time, when the laws of the universe themselves fail.
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Dystopia
A dystopia, also called a cacotopia or anti-utopia, is a community or society that is extremely bad or frightening. Science fiction and dystopia are speculative fiction.
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E. E. Smith
Edward Elmer Smith (May 2, 1890 – August 31, 1965) was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series.
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres.
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Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow is a 2014 American science fiction action film directed by Doug Liman and written by Christopher McQuarrie and the writing team of Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, loosely based on the Japanese novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka.
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Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Endeavour Award
The Endeavour Award, announced annually at OryCon in Portland, Oregon, is awarded to a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by an author or authors from the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, British Columbia, The Yukon, and Alaska) and published in the previous year.
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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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Enemy Mine (film)
Enemy Mine is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by Edward Khmara, based on Barry B. Longyear's novella of the same name.
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Engineering
Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to solve technical problems, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve systems.
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Enrique Gaspar
Enrique Lucio Eugenio Gaspar y Rimbau (2 March 1842 in Madrid – 7 September 1902 in Oloron) was a Spanish diplomat and writer, who wrote many plays (zarzuelas), and one of the first novels involving time travel with a time machine, El anacronópete.
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Entertainment
Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight.
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Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American digital-only entertainment magazine based in New York City, published by Dotdash Meredith, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books, and popular culture.
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Environmental issues
Environmental issues are disruptions in the usual function of ecosystems.
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Esquire (magazine)
Esquire is an American men's magazine.
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Essay
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 American science fiction romantic drama film directed by Michel Gondry, based on Charlie Kaufman's screenplay developed from a story by Gondry, Kaufman, and Pierre Bismuth.
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European colonization of the Americas
During the Age of Discovery, a large scale colonization of the Americas, involving a number of European countries, took place primarily between the late 15th century and the early 19th century.
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Ex Machina (film)
Ex Machina is a 2014 science fiction thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland in his directorial debut.
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Exoskeleton
An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g.
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Extrapolation (journal)
Extrapolation is an academic journal covering speculative fiction, established in 1959.
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Extrasolar planets in fiction
Planets outside of the Solar System have appeared in fiction since at least the 1850s, long before the first real ones were discovered in the 1990s.
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Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life, alien life, or colloquially simply aliens, is life which does not originate from Earth.
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Extraterrestrials in fiction
An extraterrestrial or alien is a lifeform that did not originate on Earth.
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Fact
A fact is a true datum about one or more aspects of a circumstance.
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury.
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Fan fiction
Fan fiction or fanfiction, also known as fan fic, fanfic, fic or FF, is fiction written in an amateur capacity by fans as a form of fan labor, unauthorized by, but based on, an existing work of fiction.
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Fandom
A fandom is a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of camaraderie with others who share a common interest.
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Fantastic art
Fantastic art is a broad and loosely defined art genre.
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Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre. Science fiction and Fantasy are speculative fiction.
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Faster-than-light
Faster-than-light (superluminal or supercausal) travel and communication are the conjectural propagation of matter or information faster than the speed of light.
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Feature film
A feature film or feature-length film (often abbreviated to feature), also called a theatrical film, is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program.
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Feminist science fiction
Feminist science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction (abbreviated "SF") focused on such feminist themes as: gender inequality, sexuality, race, economics, reproduction, and environment.
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Fictional universe
A fictional universe (also called an imagined universe or a constructed universe) is the internally consistent fictional setting used in a narrative work or work of art, most commonly associated with works of fantasy and science fiction.
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File 770
File 770 is a long-running science fiction fanzine, newszine, and blog site published and administered by Mike Glyer.
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File archiver
A file archiver is a computer program that combines a number of files together into one archive file, or a series of archive files, for easier transportation or storage.
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Filk music
Filk music is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction, fantasy, and horror fandom and a type of fan labor.
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Film
A film (British English) also called a movie (American English), motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images.
Film adaptation
A film adaptation is the transfer of a work or story, in whole or in part, to a feature film.
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Film noir
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylized Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and motivations.
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Filmmaking
Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced.
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Firefly (TV series)
Firefly is an American space Western drama television series, created by writer and director Joss Whedon, under his Mutant Enemy Productions label.
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Flat-panel display
A flat-panel display (FPD) is an electronic display used to display visual content such as text or images.
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Forrest J Ackerman
Forrest James Ackerman (November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008) was an American magazine editor; science fiction writer and literary agent; a founder of science fiction fandom; a leading expert on science fiction, horror, and fantasy films; a prominent advocate of the Esperanto language; and one of the world's most avid collectors of genre books and film memorabilia.
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Foundation (book series)
The Foundation series (or trilogy) is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov.
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Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC, commonly known simply as Fox and stylized in all caps, is an American commercial broadcast television network owned by the Fox Entertainment division of Fox Corporation, headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, 1st Lord Verulam, PC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England under King James I.
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Frank Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (October 8, 1920February 11, 1986) was an American science-fiction author, best known for his 1965 novel ''Dune'' and its five sequels.
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley.
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Franklin J. Schaffner
Franklin James Schaffner (May 30, 1920July 2, 1989) was an American film, television, and stage director.
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Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is an American literary critic, philosopher and Marxist political theorist.
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French people
The French people (lit) are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France.
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French science fiction
French science fiction is a substantial genre of French literature.
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Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), better known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States.
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Future
The future is the time after the past and present.
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Future history
A future history is a fictional history of the future used by authors of science fiction and other speculative fiction to construct a common background for stories.
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Futures studies
Futures studies, futures research, futurism research, futurism, or futurology is the systematic, interdisciplinary and holistic study of social/technological advancement, and other environmental trends; often for the purpose of exploring how people will live and work in the future.
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Futurist
Futurists (also known as futurologists, prospectivists, foresight practitioners and horizon scanners) are people whose specialty or interest is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future and how they can emerge from the present, whether that of human society in particular or of life on Earth in general.
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Galaxy Quest
Galaxy Quest is a 1999 American science fiction comedy film directed by Dean Parisot and written by David Howard and Robert Gordon.
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Gangster film
A gangster film or gangster movie is a film belonging to a genre that focuses on gangs and organized crime.
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Gary Westfahl
Gary Wesley Westfahl (born May 7, 1951) is an American writer and scholar of science fiction.
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Gender
Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity.
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Gender inequality
Gender inequality is the social phenomenon in which people are not treated equally on the basis of gender.
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Gender role
A gender role, or sex role, is a set of socially accepted behaviors and attitudes deemed appropriate or desirable for individuals based on their sex.
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Gene Roddenberry
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry Sr. (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter and producer who created the science fiction franchise Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer.
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Genre
Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.
Genre fiction
Genre fiction, also known as formula fiction or popular fiction, is a term used in the book-trade for fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre.
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George Edgar Slusser
George Edgar Slusser (July 14, 1939 – November 4, 2014) was an American scholar, professor and writer.
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George Lucas
George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and philanthropist.
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell.
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Georges Méliès
Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French magician, actor, and film director.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Gimmick
A gimmick is a novel device or idea designed primarily to attract attention or increase appeal, often with little intrinsic value.
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Godzilla (1954 film)
is a 1954 Japanese epic kaiju film directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.
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Golden Age of Science Fiction
The Golden Age of Science Fiction, often identified in the United States as the years 1938–1946, was a period in which a number of foundational works of science fiction literature appeared.
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Gothic fiction
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.
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Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized 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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Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is professor emeritus at the department of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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H. G. Wells
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer.
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Hard science fiction
Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic.
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (July 11, 1930 – October 14, 2019) was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of humanities at Yale University.
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Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.
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Her (film)
Her (stylized in lowercase) is a 2013 American science-fiction romantic comedy drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Spike Jonze.
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Hero
A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength.
High fidelity
High fidelity (often shortened to Hi-Fi or HiFi) is the high-quality reproduction of sound.
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Highbrow
Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, "highbrow" is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture.
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Historical fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.
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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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Hollow Earth
The Hollow Earth is a concept proposing that the planet Earth is entirely hollow or contains a substantial interior space.
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Horror fiction
Horror is a genre of fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare. Science fiction and Horror fiction are speculative fiction.
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Horror film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes.
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Hugo Award
The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and chosen by its members.
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Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist
The Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist is given each year for artists of works related to science fiction or fantasy which appeared in low- or non-paying publications such as semiprozines or fanzines.
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Hugo Award for Best Novel
The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in, or translated to, English during the previous calendar year.
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Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback (born Hugo Gernsbacher, August 16, 1884 – August 19, 1967) was an American editor and magazine publisher whose publications included the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories.
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Human
Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.
Human enhancement
Human enhancement is the natural, artificial, or technological alteration of the human body in order to enhance physical or mental capabilities.
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Human evolution
Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family that includes all the great apes.
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Humanities
Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including certain fundamental questions asked by humans.
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Hybrid genre
A hybrid genre is a literary or film genre that blends themes and elements from two or more different genres.
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I.B. Tauris
I.B. Tauris is an educational publishing house and imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Ibn al-Nafis
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Abī Ḥazm al-Qarashī (Arabic: علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي حزمالقرشي), known as Ibn al-Nafīs (Arabic: ابن النفيس), was an Arab polymath whose areas of work included medicine, surgery, physiology, anatomy, biology, Islamic studies, jurisprudence, and philosophy.
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Idea
In common usage and in philosophy, ideas are the results of thought.
Identity (social science)
Identity is the set of qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, and/or expressions that characterize a person or a group.
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Imagination
Imagination is the production of sensations, feelings and thoughts informing oneself.
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Imperialism
Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism).
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Indigenous Futurisms
Indigenous futurisms is a movement in literature, visual art, comics, video games, and other media that expresses Indigenous perspectives of the future, past, and present in the context of science fiction and related sub-genres.
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Individualism
Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual.
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Indoor tanning
Indoor tanning involves using a device that emits ultraviolet radiation to produce a cosmetic tan.
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Information Age
The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century.
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Innovation
Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services.
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Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving.
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Interactive media
Interactive media normally refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the user's actions by presenting content such as text, moving image, animation, video and audio.
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Interest (emotion)
Interest is a feeling or emotion that causes attention to focus on an object, event, or process.
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Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
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Interstellar (film)
Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction drama film directed by Christopher Nolan, who the screenplay with his brother Jonathan.
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Invention
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process.
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Invisibility
Invisibility is the state of an object that cannot be seen.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (– April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
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Ishirō Honda
was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 46 feature films in a career spanning five decades.
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Ivan Yefremov
Ivan Antonovich (Antipovich) Yefremov, sometimes Efremov (Ива́н Анто́нович (Анти́пович) Ефре́мов; 23 April 1908 – 5 October 1972) was a Soviet paleontologist, science-fiction author and social thinker.
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J.-H. Rosny aîné
J.-H. Rosny aîné was the pen name of Joseph Henri Honoré Boex (17 February 1856 – 11 February 1940), a Belgian author considered one of the founding figures of modern science fiction.
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James Cameron
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker.
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James E. Gunn
James Edwin Gunn (July 12, 1923 – December 23, 2020) was an American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist.
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Japanese science fiction
Science fiction is an important genre of modern Japanese literature that has strongly influenced aspects of contemporary Japanese pop culture, including anime, manga, video games, tokusatsu, and cinema.
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Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson (born 27 August 1959) is an English author.
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Jeff VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer (born July 7, 1968) is an American author, editor, and literary critic.
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Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers.
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler (27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music.
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John Carter of Mars
John Carter of Mars is a fictional Virginian soldier who acts as the initial protagonist of the Barsoom stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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John Clute
John Frederick Clute (born 12 September 1940) is a Canadian-born author and critic specializing in science fiction and fantasy literature who has lived in both England and the United States since 1969.
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John W. Campbell
John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor.
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John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, or Campbell Memorial Award, was an annual award presented to the author of the best science fiction novel published in English in the preceding calendar year.
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Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Allen Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
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Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
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Jupiter Ascending
Jupiter Ascending is a 2015 space opera film written, directed and co-produced by the Wachowskis.
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Kaiju
is a Japanese term that is commonly associated with media involving giant monsters.
Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek (9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist.
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Ken Liu
Ken Liu (born 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy.
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Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher.
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels.
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Lee Hawkins Garby
Lee Hawkins Garby (1890–1957) was the co-author with Edward Elmer Smith of the 1928 serial novel The Skylark of Space, the first science fiction story in which humans left the solar system.
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Lester del Rey
Lester del Rey (June 2, 1915 – May 10, 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor.
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Letter (message)
A letter is a written message conveyed from one person (or group of people) to another through a medium.
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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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List of environmental issues
This is an alphabetical list of environmental issues, harmful aspects of human activity on the biophysical environment.
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List of existing technologies predicted in science fiction
This list of existing technologies predicted in science fiction includes every medium, mainly literature and film.
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List of fictional robots and androids
This list of fictional robots and androids is chronological, and categorised by medium.
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List of highest-grossing films
Films generate income from several revenue streams, including theatrical exhibition, home video, television broadcast rights, and merchandising.
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List of largest cities
The United Nations uses three definitions for what constitutes a city, as not all cities in all jurisdictions are classified using the same criteria.
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List of satirists and satires
This is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for involvement in satire – humorous social criticism.
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List of science fiction and fantasy artists
This is a list of science fiction and fantasy artists, notable and well-known 20th- and 21st-century artists who have created book covers or interior illustrations for books, or who have had their own books or comic books of fantastic art with science fiction or fantasy themes published.
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List of science fiction comedy works
This is a list of science fiction comedy works—those mixing soft science fiction or science fantasy with comedy.
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List of science fiction novels
This is a list of science fiction novels, novel series and collections of linked short stories.
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List of science fiction television programs
This is an inclusive list of television programs with science fiction as principal theme, or which contain at least one significant element of science fiction, even if some cross over into other genres.
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List of science fiction themes
The following is a list of articles about recurring themes in science fiction.
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List of science fiction universes
Several fictional universes exist in science fiction that serve as backstage for novels, short stories, motion pictures and games.
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List of science-fiction authors
This is a list of notable science-fiction authors, in alphabetical order.
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List of Star Trek films
Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise that started with a television series (simply called Star Trek but now referred to as Star Trek: The Original Series) created by Gene Roddenberry.
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List of Star Trek novels
The Star Trek franchise's first tie-in publications were James Blish's 1967 volume of episode novelizations and Mack Reynolds's 1968 young adult novel Mission to Horatius.
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List of Star Trek television series
Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise that started with a television series (simply called Star Trek but now referred to as Star Trek: The Original Series) created by Gene Roddenberry.
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Lists of science fiction films
Science fiction films This is a list of science fiction films organized chronologically.
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Lists of space programs
A space program is an organized effort by a government or a company with a goal related to outer space.
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Literary genre
A literary genre is a category of literature.
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Literature
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems.
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Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston.
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Liu Cixin
Liu Cixin (pronounced; born 23 June 1963) is a Chinese computer engineer and science fiction writer.
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Live television
Live television is a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present.
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Locating Science Fiction
Locating Science Fiction is a 2012 book on science fiction literary criticism by Andrew Milner.
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Locus Award
The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus, a monthly magazine based in Oakland, California.
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Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold (born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Lost in Space
Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series, created and produced by Irwin Allen, which originally aired between 1965 and 1968 on CBS.
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Lucian
Lucian of Samosata (Λουκιανὸς ὁ Σαμοσατεύς, 125 – after 180) was a Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer 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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Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg (3 December 1684 – 28 January 1754) was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano–Norwegian dual monarchy.
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Magazine
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content.
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Mailing list
A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients.
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.
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Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623 – 16 December 1673) was a prolific English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and playwright.
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Market economy
A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution to the consumers are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand.
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Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.
Marvel Cinematic Universe
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is an American media franchise and shared universe centered on a series of superhero films produced by Marvel Studios.
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Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.
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Masood Ashraf Raja
Masood Ashraf Raja (Urdu: مسعود اشرف راجہ) is a Pakistani-born American writer.
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Mass media
Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.
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Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.
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Max Gladstone
Max Gladstone (born May 28, 1984) is an American fantasy author.
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Media (communication)
In communication, media are the outlets or tools used to store and deliver content; semantic information or subject matter of which the media contains.
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Media franchise
A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or a video game.
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Melancholia (2011 film)
Melancholia is a 2011 science fiction drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier and starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Kiefer Sutherland, with Alexander Skarsgård, Brady Corbet, Cameron Spurr, Charlotte Rampling, Jesper Christensen, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgård, and Udo Kier in supporting roles.
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Metropolis (1927 film)
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was intentionally written as a treatment).
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Michael Swanwick
Michael Swanwick (born November 18, 1950) is an American fantasy and science fiction author who began publishing in the early 1980s.
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Micromégas
Le Micromégas is a 1752 novella by the French philosopher and satirist Voltaire.
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Micron Technology
Micron Technology, Inc. is an American producer of computer memory and computer data storage including dynamic random-access memory, flash memory, and USB flash drives.
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Military science fiction
Military science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction and military fiction that depicts the use of science fiction technology, including spaceships and weapons, for military purposes and usually principal characters who are members of a military organization, usually during a war; occurring sometimes in outer space or on a different planet or planets.
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Mimosa (magazine)
Mimosa was a science fiction fanzine edited by Richard Lynch and Nicki Lynch.
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Mind control in popular culture
Mind control has proven a popular subject in fiction, featuring in books and films such as The Manchurian Candidate (1959; film adaptations 1962 and 2004) and The IPCRESS File (1962; film 1965), both stories advancing the premise that controllers could hypnotize a person into murdering on command while retaining no memory of the killing.
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Miniseries
A miniseries or mini-series is a television show or series that tells a story in a predetermined, limited number of episodes.
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Minority Report (film)
Minority Report is a 2002 American cyberpunk action film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella "The Minority Report".
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Monster
A monster is a type of fictional creature found in horror, fantasy, science fiction, folklore, mythology and religion. Science fiction and monster are speculative fiction.
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Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.
Moon landing
A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions.
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More Than Human
More Than Human is a 1953 science fiction novel by American writer Theodore Sturgeon.
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Mundane science fiction
Mundane science fiction (MSF) is a niche literary movement within science fiction that developed in the early 2000s, with principles codified by the "Mundane Manifesto"Geoff Ryman et al.
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Mutants in fiction
The concept of a mutant is a common trope in comic books and science fiction.
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Mycology
Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their taxonomy, genetics, biochemical properties, and use by humans.
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Mystery fiction
Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story.
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Mystery film
A mystery film is a film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime.
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Myth
Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.
Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm).
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National Science Foundation
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.
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Natural History (magazine)
Natural History is a natural history magazine published in the United States.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
Neal Stephenson
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.
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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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Neuromancer
Neuromancer is a 1984 science fiction novel by American-Canadian writer William Gibson.
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New Atlantis
New Atlantis is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published posthumously in 1626.
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New England Science Fiction Association
The New England Science Fiction Association, or NESFA, is a science fiction club centered in the New England area.
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New media
New media are communication technologies that enable or enhance interaction between users as well as interaction between users and content.
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New religious movements and cults in popular culture
New religious movements and cults have appeared as themes or subjects in literature and popular culture.
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New Wave (science fiction)
The New Wave was a science fiction style of the 1960s and 1970s, characterized by a great degree of experimentation with the form and content of stories, greater imitation of the styles of non-science fiction literature, and an emphasis on the psychological and social sciences as opposed to the physical sciences.
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Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
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Nick Harkaway
Nicholas Cornwell (born 26 November 1972), better known by his pen name Nick Harkaway, is a British novelist and commentator.
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Niels Klim's Underground Travels
Niels Klim's Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum (1741), is a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel written by the Norwegian-Danish author Ludvig Holberg.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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Non-fiction
Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination.
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Nonprofit organization
A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.
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Norwegian science fiction
Science fiction literature was established in Norway in the mid-1960s, mainly by Jon Bing and Tor Åge Bringsværd.
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Novel
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.
NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.
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Ocean
The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.
Omni (magazine)
Omni was a science and science fiction magazine published for domestic American and UK markets.
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One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.
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Online and offline
In computer technology and telecommunications, online indicates a state of connectivity, and offline indicates a disconnected state.
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Orbit Books
Orbit Books is an international publisher that specialises in science fiction and fantasy books.
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Organization
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose.
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Orphan Black
Orphan Black is a Canadian science-fiction thriller television series created by screenwriter Graeme Manson and director John Fawcett and starring Tatiana Maslany.
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Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works.
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OryCon
Orycon is Portland, Oregon's annual science fiction/fantasy convention, held in November since 1979.
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Oryx and Crake
Oryx and Crake is a 2003 novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood.
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Other (philosophy)
Other is a term used to define another person or people as separate from oneself.
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Outer space
Outer space (or simply space) is the expanse that exists beyond Earth's atmosphere and between celestial bodies.
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Outline of science fiction
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to science fiction: Science fiction – a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting.
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Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.
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Paleontology
Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
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Paradigm
In science and philosophy, a paradigm is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitute legitimate contributions to a field.
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Parallel universes in fiction
A parallel universe, also known as an alternate universe, parallel world, parallel dimension, alternate reality, or alternative dimension, is a hypothetical self-contained layer or plane of existence, co-existing with one's own.
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Paramount Streaming
Paramount Streaming (formerly CBS Digital Media, CBS Interactive, and ViacomCBS Streaming) is a division of Paramount Global that oversees the company's video streaming technology and direct-to-consumer services; including Pluto TV and Paramount+.
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Paranormal
Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
Periodical literature
A periodical literature (also called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule.
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Perry Rhodan
Perry Rhodan is a German space opera franchise, named after its hero.
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Peter Nicholls (writer)
Peter Douglas Nicholls (8 March 1939 – 6 March 2018) was an Australian literary scholar and critic.
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Philip Francis Nowlan
Philip Francis Nowlan (November 13, 1888 – February 1, 1940) was an American science fiction writer, best known as the creator of Buck Rogers.
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Philip K. Dick
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer and novelist.
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Physics
Physics is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.
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Pierre Boulle
Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994) was a French author.
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Planet
A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one itself.
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Planet of the Apes (1968 film)
Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a screenplay by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling, loosely based on the 1963 novel by Pierre Boulle.
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Planet of the Apes (novel)
La Planète des singes, known in English as Planet of the Apes in the US and Monkey Planet in the UK, is a 1963 science fiction novel by French author Pierre Boulle.
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Planetary romance
Planetary romance (other synonyms are sword and planet, and (inter)planetary adventureAllen Steele, Captain Future - the Horror at Jupiter) is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy in which the bulk of the action consists of adventures on one or more exotic alien planets, characterized by distinctive physical and cultural backgrounds.
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Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.
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Plokta
Plokta is a British science fiction fanzine, first published in 1996, which has won two Hugo Awards.
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
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Politics
Politics is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status.
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Popular culture
Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.
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Popularity
In sociology, popularity is how much a person, idea, place, item or other concept is either liked or accorded status by other people.
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Post-scarcity
Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely.
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Postmodern literature
Postmodern literature is a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, and which often thematizes both historical and political issues.
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Powered exoskeleton
A powered exoskeleton (also known as power armor, powered armor, powered suit, cybernetic suit, robot armor, robot suit, high-tech armor, robotic armor, robot armor suit, cybernetic armor, exosuit, hardsuit, exoframe or augmented mobility) is a mobile machine that is wearable over all or part of the human body, providing ergonomic structural support and powered by a system of electric motors, pneumatics, levers, hydraulics or a combination of cybernetic technologies, while allowing for sufficient limb movement with increased strength and endurance.
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Predestination (film)
Predestination is a 2014 Australian science fiction action-thriller film written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig.
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Prediction
A prediction (Latin præ-, "before," and dictum, "something said") or '''forecast''' is a statement about a future event or about future data.
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Private property
Private property is a legal designation for the ownership of property by non-governmental legal entities.
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Progress
Progress is movement towards a refined, improved, or otherwise desired state.
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Protest
A protest (also called a demonstration, remonstration, or remonstrance) is a public expression of objection, disapproval, or dissent towards an idea or action, typically a political one.
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Protologism
In linguistics, a protologism is a newly used or coined word, a nonce word, that has been repeated but not gained acceptance beyond its original users or been published independently of the coiners.
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Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.
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Psychohistory (fictional science)
Psychohistory is a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' universe which combines history, sociology, and mathematical statistics to make general predictions about the future behavior of very large groups of people, such as the Galactic Empire.
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Public
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings.
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Publication
To publish is to make content available to the general public.
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Publishing
Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software, and other content available to the public for sale or for free.
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Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 until around 1955.
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Quantum Leap (1989 TV series)
Quantum Leap is an American science fiction television series, created by Donald P. Bellisario, that aired on NBC for five seasons, from March 26, 1989, to May 5, 1993.
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R.U.R.
R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek.
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Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.
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Raygun
A raygun is a science-fiction directed-energy weapon usually with destructive effect.
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Red Dwarf
Red Dwarf is a British science fiction comedy series created by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, consisting of a sitcom that aired on BBC Two between 1988 and 1999, and on Dave since 2009, gaining a cult following.
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Rendezvous with Rama
Rendezvous with Rama is a 1973 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke.
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Reproduction
Reproduction (or procreation or breeding) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parent" or parents.
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Reptilian conspiracy theory
Reptilians (also called reptoids, archons, reptiloids, saurians, draconians, or lizard people) are supposed reptilian humanoids, which play a prominent role in fantasy, science fiction, ufology, and conspiracy theories.
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Research
Research is "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge".
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Retrofuturism
Retrofuturism (adjective retrofuturistic or retrofuture) is a movement in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future produced in an earlier era.
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Right-libertarianism
Right-libertarianism,Rothbard, Murray (1 March 1971).
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Rigour
Rigour (British English) or rigor (American English; see spelling differences) describes a condition of stiffness or strictness.
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Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer.
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Robot
A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.
Rod Serling
Rodman Edward Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter and television producer best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his anthology television series The Twilight Zone.
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Rollerball (1975 film)
Rollerball is a 1975 dystopian science fiction sports film directed and produced by Norman Jewison.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
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Romance film
Romance films involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters.
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Romanian science fiction
Romanian science fiction began in the 19th century and gained popularity in Romania during the second half of the 20th century.
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Russian science fiction and fantasy
Elements of fantastical or supernatural fiction have been part of mainstream Russian literature since the 18th century.
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Russians
Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.
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Sad Puppies
Sad Puppies was an unsuccessful right-wing anti-diversity voting campaign run from 2013 to 2017 and intended to influence the outcome of the annual Hugo Awards, the longest-running prize (since 1953) for science fiction or fantasy works.
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San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle is a newspaper serving primarily the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.
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Satellite television
Satellite television is a service that delivers television programming to viewers by relaying it from a communications satellite orbiting the Earth directly to the viewer's location.
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Satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
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Saturn Awards
The Saturn Awards are American awards presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.
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Scholar
A scholar is a person who is a researcher or has expertise in an academic discipline.
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Science
Science is a strict systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the world.
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Science fantasy
Science fantasy is a hybrid genre within speculative fiction that simultaneously draws upon or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy.
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Science fiction and fantasy in Poland
Science fiction and fantasy in Poland dates to the late 18th century.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, doing business as Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, commonly known as SFWA is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization of professional science fiction and fantasy writers.
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Science Fiction and Futurology
Science Fiction and Futurology (Fantastyka i futurologia) is a monograph of Stanisław Lem about science fiction and futurology, first printed by Wydawnictwo Literackie in 1970.
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Science fiction comedy
Science fiction comedy (sci-fi comedy) or comic science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that exploits the science fiction genre's conventions for comedic effect.
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Science fiction comics
Publication of comic strips and comic books focusing on science fiction became increasingly common during the early 1930s in newspapers published in the United States.
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Science fiction convention
Science fiction conventions are gatherings of fans of the speculative fiction genre, science fiction.
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Science fiction fandom
Science fiction fandom or SF fandom is a community or fandom of people interested in science fiction in contact with one another based upon that interest.
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Science fiction film
Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies.
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Science Fiction Foundation
The Science Fiction Foundation is a Registered Charity established 1970 in England by George Hay and others.
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Science fiction libraries and museums
With the growth of science fiction studies as an academic discipline as well as a popular media genre, a number of libraries, museums, archives, and special collections have been established to collect and organize works of scholarly and historical value in the field.
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Science fiction magazine
A science fiction magazine is a publication that offers primarily science fiction, either in a hard-copy periodical format or on the Internet.
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Science fiction on television
Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
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Science Fiction Research Association
The Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA), founded in 1970, is the oldest, non-profit professional organization committed to encouraging, facilitating, and rewarding the study of science fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media.
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Science Fiction Studies
Science Fiction Studies (SFS) is an academic journal founded in 1973 by R. D. Mullen.
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Science fiction studies
Science fiction studies is the common name for the academic discipline that studies and researches the history, culture, and works of science fiction and, more broadly, speculative fiction.
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Science Fiction World
Science Fiction World (Sci-Fi World; SFW) (Kehuan Shijie), begun in 1979, is a monthly science fiction magazine published in the People's Republic of China, headquartered in Chengdu, Sichuan.
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Science in science fiction
Science in science fiction is the study or of how science is portrayed in works of science fiction, including novels, stories, and films.
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Science-fiction fanzine
A science-fiction fanzine is an amateur or semi-professional magazine published by members of science-fiction fandom, from the 1930s to the present day.
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Scientific method
The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century.
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Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.
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Scientific romance
Scientific romance is an archaic, mainly British term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction.
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Self-consciousness
Self-consciousness is a heightened sense of awareness of oneself.
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Sense of wonder
A sense of wonder (sometimes jokingly written sensawunda) is an intellectual and emotional state frequently invoked in discussions of science and biology, higher consciousness, science fiction, and philosophy.
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Sensibility
Sensibility refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another.
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Serbian science fiction
Science fiction and fantasy in Serbia has a long and varied history.
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Serenity (2005 film)
Serenity is a 2005 American space Western film written and directed by Joss Whedon in his feature directorial debut.
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Serenity (Firefly vessel)
Serenity is a fictional spacecraft that appears in Joss Whedon's Firefly television series and related works.
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Serial (radio and television)
In television and radio programming, a serial is a show that has a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion.
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SFX (magazine)
SFX is a British magazine covering the topics of science fiction and fantasy.
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Shards of Honor
Shards of Honor is an English language science fiction novel by Lois McMaster Bujold, first published in June 1986.
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Short story
A short story is a piece of prose fiction.
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Sight and Sound
Sight and Sound (formerly written Sight & Sound) is a monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).
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Sky Racket (film)
Sky Racket is a 1937 American drama film directed by Sam Katzman and starring Bruce Bennett, Joan Barclay, and Duncan Renaldo.
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Snow Crash
Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by the American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.
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Social alienation
Social alienation is a person's feeling of disconnection from a group whether friends, family, or wider society with which the individual has an affiliation.
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Social order
The term social order can be used in two senses: In the first sense, it refers to a particular system of social structures and institutions.
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Social relation
A social relation is the fundamental unit of analysis within the social sciences, and describes any voluntary or involuntary interpersonal relationship between two or more individuals within and/or between groups.
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Social science
Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.
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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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Society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.
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Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
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Soft science fiction
Soft science fiction, or soft SF, is a category of science fiction with two different definitions, in contrast to hard science fiction.
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Solar System
The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.
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Solaris (novel)
Solaris is a 1961 science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem.
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Solarpunk
Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community.
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Somnium (novel)
Somnium (Latin for "The Dream") — full title: Somnium, seu opus posthumum De astronomia lunari — is a novel written in Latin in 1608 by Johannes Kepler.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Space
Space is a three-dimensional continuum containing positions and directions.
Space exploration
Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space.
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Space opera
Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and chivalric romance.
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Space travel in science fiction
Space travel, or space flight (less often, starfaring or star voyaging) is a science fiction theme that has captivated the public and is almost archetypal for science fiction.
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Space Western
Space Western is a subgenre of science fiction that uses the themes and tropes of Westerns within science-fiction stories in an outer space setting.
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Spaceballs
Spaceballs is a 1987 American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks.
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Spaceflight
Spaceflight (or space flight) is an application of astronautics to fly objects, usually spacecraft, into or through outer space, either with or without humans on board.
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Spanish science fiction
Science fiction in Spanish-language literature has its roots in authors such as Antonio de Guevara with The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius (1527), Miguel de Cervantes in Don Quixote, Anastasio Pantaleón de Ribera's Vejamen de la luna (Satirical tract on the Moon, 1626/1634), Luis Vélez de Guevara's El Diablo Cojuelo (The Limping Devil, 1641) and Antonio Enríquez Gómez's La torre de Babilonia (The Tower of Babylon).
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Special effect
Special effects (often abbreviated as F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world.
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Speculative evolution
Speculative evolution is a subgenre of science fiction and an artistic movement focused on hypothetical scenarios in the evolution of life, and a significant form of fictional biology. It is also known as speculative biology and it is referred to as speculative zoology in regards to hypothetical animals. Science fiction and speculative evolution are speculative fiction.
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Speculative fiction
Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre of fiction that encompasses all the subgenres that depart from realism, or strictly imitating everyday reality, instead presenting fantastical, supernatural, futuristic, or other imaginative realms.
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Sports film
A sports film is a film genre in which any particular sport plays a prominent role in the film's plot or acts as its central theme.
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Spy fiction
Spy fiction is a genre of literature involving espionage as an important context or plot device.
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Spy-fi (subgenre)
Spy-fi is a subgenre of spy fiction that includes elements of science fiction, and is often associated with the Cold War.
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Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Herman Lem (12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of novels, short stories and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism.
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Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer.
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Star Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9) is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller.
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Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Discovery is an American science fiction television series created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman for the streaming service CBS All Access (later rebranded as Paramount+).
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Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: Enterprise, originally titled simply Enterprise for its first two seasons, is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga.
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Star Trek: Picard
Star Trek: Picard is an American science fiction television series created by Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Kirsten Beyer, and Alex Kurtzman for the streaming service CBS All Access (later rebranded as Paramount+).
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is an American science fiction television series created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet for the streaming service Paramount+.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry.
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Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew.
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Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor.
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Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.
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Star Wars (film)
Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox.
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Stargate (film)
Stargate is a 1994 science fiction action-adventure film directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich.
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Stargate Atlantis
Stargate Atlantis (usually stylized in all caps and often abbreviated SGA) is an adventure and military science fiction television series and part of MGM's ''Stargate'' franchise.
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Stargate fandom
Stargate fandom is a community of people actively interested in the military science fiction film Stargate and its television shows including Stargate SG-1 (SG1), Stargate Infinity (SGI), Stargate Atlantis (SGA), Stargate Universe (SGU) and their spin offs.
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Stargate Infinity
Stargate Infinity, often abbreviated as SGI or just Infinity (Stargate: Le Dessin Animé), is a 2002–2003 animated science fiction television series co-produced by Les Studios Tex S.A.R.L. and DIC Entertainment Corporation, in association with MGM Television Entertainment as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's (MGM) ''Stargate'' franchise, but is not considered official Stargate canon.
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Stargate SG-1
Stargate SG-1 (often stylized in all caps, or abbreviated SG-1) is a military science fiction adventure television series within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ''Stargate'' franchise.
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Stargate Universe
Stargate Universe (often abbreviated as SGU) is a military science fiction drama television series and part of MGM's ''Stargate'' franchise.
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Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein.
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Steampunk
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by, but not limited to, 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery.
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Steve Jackson Games
Steve Jackson Games (SJGames) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and (until 2019) the gaming magazine Pyramid.
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Stoicism
Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
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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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SUNY Press
The State University of New York Press (more commonly referred to as the SUNY Press) is a university press affiliated with the State University of New York system.
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Superhero
A superhero or superheroine is a stock character who typically possesses ''superpowers'' or abilities beyond those of ordinary people, is frequently costumed concealing their identity, and fits the role of the hero; typically using their powers to help the world become a better place, or dedicating themselves to protecting the public and fighting crime.
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Superhero fiction
Superhero fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction examining the adventures, personalities and ethics of costumed crime fighters known as superheroes, who often possess superhuman powers and battle similarly powered criminals known as supervillains. Science fiction and superhero fiction are speculative fiction.
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Superhero film
A superhero film is a film that focuses on superheroes and their actions.
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Superintelligence
A superintelligence is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds.
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Supernatural fiction
Supernatural fiction or supernaturalist fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction that exploits or is centered on supernatural themes, often contradicting naturalist assumptions of the real world. Science fiction and supernatural fiction are speculative fiction.
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Survey (human research)
In research of human subjects, a survey is a list of questions aimed for extracting specific data from a particular group of people.
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Suspense
Suspense is a state of anxiety or excitement caused by mysteriousness, uncertainty, doubt, or undecidedness.
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Syfy
Syfy (a paraphrased neology of former name Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable television channel, which is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division and business segment of Comcast's NBCUniversal.
Syllabus
A syllabus (AFI: /ˈsɪl.ə.bəs/;: syllabuses or syllabi) or specification is a document that communicates information about an academic course or class and defines expectations and responsibilities.
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Synthetic biology
Synthetic biology (SynBio) is a multidisciplinary field of science that focuses on living systems and organisms, and it applies engineering principles to develop new biological parts, devices, and systems or to redesign existing systems found in nature.
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Tade Thompson
Tade Thompson FRSL is a British-born Nigerian psychiatrist and writer of Yoruba descent.
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Tank
A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat.
Tech noir
Tech-noir (also known as cyber noir, future noir and science fiction noir) is a hybrid genre of fiction, particularly film, combining film noir and science fiction, epitomized by Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) and James Cameron's The Terminator (1984).
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Technological innovation
Technological innovation is an extended concept of innovation.
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Technology
Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way.
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Teddy Harvia
Teddy Harvia is the pen name of David Thayer, an American science fiction fan artist.
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Telekinesis
Telekinesis is a hypothetical psychic ability allowing an individual to influence a physical system without physical interaction.
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Telepathy
Telepathy is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.
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Teleportation
Teleportation is the hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.
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Television in the United States
Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States.
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Television show
A television show, TV program, or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is traditionally broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable.
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Terry Carr
Terry Gene Carr (February 19, 1937 – April 7, 1987) was an American science fiction fan, author, editor, and writing instructor.
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The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.
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The Blazing World
The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by the English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The Comet (fanzine)
The Comet, later known as "?" and Cosmology, was an American science fiction fanzine, often considered the first of its kind.
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (SFE) is an English language reference work on science fiction, first published in 1979.
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The Expanse (TV series)
The Expanse is an American science fiction television series developed by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby for the Syfy network and is based on the series of novels of the same name by James S. A. Corey.
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The Gone-Away World
The Gone-Away World is the debut novel of British author Nick Harkaway, a science fiction story set in a post-apocalyptic world crippled by the 'Go-Away War'.
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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders is an English language reference work on science fiction and fantasy, published in 2005 by Greenwood Press.
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood published in 1985.
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The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novel by British writer H. G. Wells.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells.
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The Jetsons
The Jetsons is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.
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The Last Man
The Last Man is an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, first published in 1826.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness is a science fiction novel by the American writer Ursula K. Le Guin.
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The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles is a science fiction fix-up novel, published in 1950, by American writer Ray Bradbury that chronicles the exploration and settlement of Mars, the home of indigenous Martians, by Americans leaving a troubled Earth that is eventually devastated by nuclear war.
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The Matrix
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis.
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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 absentee rule from Earth.
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The New York Review of Science Fiction
The New York Review of Science Fiction is a monthly literary magazine of science fiction that was established in 1988.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Onion
The Onion is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news.
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The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)
The Outer Limits is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from September 16, 1963, to January 16, 1965, at 7:30 PM Eastern Time on Mondays.
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The Paris Review
The Paris Review is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.
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The Prisoner
The Prisoner is a British television series created by Patrick McGoohan, with possible contributions from George Markstein.
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The Road
The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy.
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The Skylark of Space
The Skylark of Space is a science fiction novel by American writer Edward E. "Doc" Smith, written between 1915 and 1921 while Smith was working on his doctorate.
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The Stone Gods (novel)
The Stone Gods is a novel written by Jeanette Winterson.
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The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
is a (fictional prose narrative) containing elements of Japanese folklore.
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The Testaments
The Testaments is a 2019 novel by Margaret Atwood.
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The Three-Body Problem (novel)
The Three-Body Problem is a 2008 novel by the Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin.
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The Time Machine
The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels approximately 800,806 years into the future.
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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
The Twilight Zone (marketed as Twilight Zone for its final two seasons) is an American fantasy science fiction horror anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from October 2, 1959, to June 19, 1964.
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The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall
"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall" (1835) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in the June 1835 issue of the monthly magazine Southern Literary Messenger as "Hans Phaall -- A Tale", intended by Poe to be a hoax.
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The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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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.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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The X-Files
The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.
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Theme (narrative)
In contemporary literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative.
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Theodore Sturgeon
Theodore Sturgeon (born Edward Hamilton Waldo, February 26, 1918 – May 8, 1985) was an American fiction author of primarily fantasy, science fiction, and horror, as well as a critic.
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Theodore Sturgeon Award
The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award is an annual literary award presented by the Theodore Sturgeon Literary Trust and the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas to the author of the best short science fiction story published in English in the preceding calendar year.
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Theologus Autodidactus
Theologus Autodidactus (English: "The Self-taught Theologian") is an Arabic novel written by Ibn al-Nafis, originally titled The Treatise of Kāmil on the Prophet's Biography (الرسالة الكاملية في السيرة النبوية), and also known as Risālat Fādil ibn Nātiq ("The Book of Fādil ibn Nātiq").
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Thomas M. Disch
Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction writer and poet.
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Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels.
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Thriller film
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience.
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Time
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future.
Time travel
Time travel is the hypothetical activity of traveling into the past or future.
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Time travel in fiction
Time travel is a common theme in fiction, mainly since the late 19th century, and has been depicted in a variety of media, such as literature, television, film, and advertisements.
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Timeline of science fiction
This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition.
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Tor Books
Tor Books is the primary imprint of Tor Publishing Group (previously Tom Doherty Associates), a publishing company based in New York City.
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Toronto Public Library
Toronto Public Library (TPL) is a public library system in Toronto, Ontario.
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Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society.
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Tradition
A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.
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Transhumanism
Transhumanism is a philosophical and intellectual movement that advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available new and future technologies that can greatly enhance longevity, cognition, and well-being.
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Treadmill
A treadmill is a device generally used for walking, running, or climbing while staying in the same place.
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Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction, commonly referred to as Trillion Year Spree, is a 1986 book by Brian W. Aldiss and David Wingrove.
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Trope (literature)
A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.
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TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers) is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne.
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U&Dave
U&Dave is a British free-to-air television channel owned by UKTV, a subsidiary of BBC Studios.
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Unidentified flying object
An unidentified flying object (UFO), or unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP), is any perceived airborne, submerged or transmedium phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Universe
The universe is all of space and time and their contents.
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University
A university is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines.
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University of Liverpool
The University of Liverpool (abbreviated UOL) is a public research university in Liverpool, England.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author.
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Usenet
Usenet, USENET, or, "in full", User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.
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Utopia
A utopia typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or near-perfect qualities for its members. Science fiction and utopia are speculative fiction.
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Utopian and dystopian fiction
Utopian and dystopian fiction are subgenres of science fiction that explore social and political structures. Science fiction and Utopian and dystopian fiction are speculative fiction.
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V (1983 miniseries)
V (or V: The Original Miniseries) is a two-part American science-fiction television miniseries, written and directed by Kenneth Johnson.
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Victor Gollancz
Sir Victor Gollancz (9 April 1893 – 8 February 1967) was a British publisher and humanitarian.
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Videotelephony
Videotelephony (also known as videoconferencing or video call) is the use of audio and video for simultaneous two-way communication.
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Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (also), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian.
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Volunteering
Volunteering is a voluntary act of an individual or group freely giving time and labor, often for community service.
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Vorkosigan Saga
The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe by American author Lois McMaster Bujold.
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WALL-E
WALL-E (stylized with an interpunct as WALL·E) is a 2008 American animated romantic science fiction film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.
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War film
War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama.
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We (novel)
We (translit) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written in 1920–1921.
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Weapons in science fiction
Strange and exotic weapons are a recurring feature in science fiction.
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Website
A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of fiction typically set in the American frontier (commonly referred to as the "Old West" or the "Wild West") between the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the closing of the frontier in 1890, and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada.
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Western fiction
Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century.
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William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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World
The world is the totality of entities, the whole of reality, or everything that exists.
World Fantasy Award
The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year.
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World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists.
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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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Yevgeny Zamyatin
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (p; – 10 March 1937), sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamyatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire.
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Young adult literature
Young adult literature (YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as friendship, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
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Yugoslav science fiction
Yugoslav science fiction comprises literary works, films, comic books and other works of art in the science fiction genre created in Yugoslavia during its existence (1918–1991).
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Zoology
ZoologyThe pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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See also
Speculative fiction
- After The Revolution
- Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
- Arab speculative fiction
- Biblical speculative fiction
- Climate fiction
- Dogs of War (2017 novel)
- Dystopia
- Eaton Collection
- Fantasy
- Fantasy podcast
- Forbidden Planet (retail chain)
- Ghost story
- Horror fiction
- LitRPG
- Lost world
- Mathematical fiction
- Megatext
- Monster
- Monster literature
- Orion's Arm
- Paranormal romance
- Pastoral science fiction
- Pop culture fiction
- Prehistoric fiction
- Project Cassandra (literature)
- Ring Shout
- Science fiction
- Skiffy
- Slipstream genre
- Southern Gothic
- Speculative evolution
- Speculative fiction
- Superhero fiction
- Supernatural
- Supernatural fiction
- The J.R.R. Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature
- Time-travel romance
- Uchronia
- Utopia
- Utopian and dystopian fiction
- Weird West
- Weird fiction
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