This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of...

means "outside Earth". Extraterrestrials are a common theme in modern science-fiction, and also appeared in much earlier works such as the second-century...

Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or...

was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. December 24 : Fritz Leiber, American writer (died 1992) The main science-fiction Awards known at...

marked, in science fiction, by the following events. November 7 : Raphael Aloysius Lafferty, American writer (died 2002) The main science-fiction Awards known...

En L'An 2000 (In the Year 2000, also loosely translated as France in the 21st Century) is a French image series depicting scientific advances imagined...

novels. The works in this series are adventure stories, some with overt science fiction elements (e.g., Journey to the Center of the Earth) or elements of...

The year 1957 was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. Roger MacBride Allen John Barnes Stephen Baxter Joël Champetier (d. 2015) Jean-Claude...

detective fiction (推理小説, suiri shōsetsu, literally deductive reasoning fiction), is a popular genre of Japanese literature. When Western detective fiction spread...

sequel) The First Men in the Moon, 1901 novel by H. G. Wells Apollo 8 Apollo 11 Verneshot Moon in science fiction Amédée Guillemin Apollo command and...

Dystopian societies appear in many speculative fiction works and are often found within the science fiction and fantasy genres. Dystopias are often characterized...

Tales of Brittany, citing Souvestre and Le Braz among her sources. The science fiction and fantasy writer Poul Anderson and his wife Karen Anderson published...

the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. Akin today to science fiction, this literature of scientific imagination revolves around key themes...

was a Norwegian author. From 1957 until 2002, he published both fiction and non-fiction texts which include novels, poems, essays, a biography, and manuscripts...

above William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback...

John Desmond Bernal FRS (/bərˈnɑːl/; 10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was an Irish scientist who pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography in molecular...

called science fiction). Works of nautical fiction can also be romances, as the genre often overlaps with historical romance, adventure fiction, and fantasy...

same to create a date for a school dance, naming her Galatea. The science-fiction franchise Star Trek explores the Pygmalion theme in episodes such Star...

siècle, quand ce genre entre en crise, les jeunes sont remplacés par les adolescents, nouveaux protagonistes des œuvres de fiction. Après les écrits de Jean-Jacques...

Leagues Under the Seas (French: Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers) is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne. It is often considered...

England), fiction wr. Pat Barker (b. 1943, England), nv. Susan Barker (b. 1978, England), nv. Anna Barkova (1901–1976, Soviet Union), poet, pw. & fiction wr...

and intelligence. She is most worthy of this global recognition." Science fiction author Kim Bo-young said, "We cheer and rejoice. I am even prouder...

number of stories within the One Thousand and One Nights also feature science fiction elements. One example is "The Adventures of Bulukiya", where the protagonist...

an American journalist and novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague:...

and poetry. His works are notable for their profound influence on science fiction and on surrealism, their innovative use of modernist literary techniques...

Mushitarō Oguri (小栗 虫太郎, Oguri Mushitarō, March 14, 1901 – February 10, 1946), born Eijirō Oguri, was a Japanese author and an important mystery novelist...

Worlds of Science Fiction magazine and is collected in the anthology Buy Jupiter and Other Stories (Isaac Asimov, Doubleday Science Fiction, 1975). A...

(1899–1900) Iron alloys (1900–1901) General methods of analytical chemistry (1901–1902) General laws of analytical chemistry (1901–1902) General laws of chemical...

pen Lupin tales well into the 1930s. Leblanc also wrote two notable science fiction novels: Les Trois Yeux [fr] (1919), in which a scientist makes televisual...

Chimera Brigade series lie in science-fiction author Serge Lehman's awareness, in the 1990s, of a paradoxical fact: science fiction is perceived as an essentially...