Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts...
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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...
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Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and...
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (category 1959 science fiction novels)
Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959. Set in a Catholic monastery in...
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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...
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science fiction literature encompasses all German-language literary productions, whether of German, Swiss or Austrian origin, in the science fiction genre...
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time travel concept. Time travel is a common theme and plot device in science fiction films. The list below covers films for which time travel is central...
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Stefan Wul (category French science fiction writers)
1989, but remained active in the French science fiction scene. He published eleven novels between 1956 and 1959 and a twelfth in 1977. One of them, Le...
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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...
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Starship Troopers (category 1959 science fiction novels)
Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction as Starship Soldier, and published as a book by G. P. Putnam's Sons on November 5, 1959. The story is set in a...
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On the Beach is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film from United Artists starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony...
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themes in speculative fiction include lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBTQ) themes in science fiction, fantasy, horror fiction and related genres...
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Maurice G. Dantec (category French science fiction writers)
Georges Dantec (French: [dɑ̃tɛk]; 13 June 1959 – 25 June 2016) was a French-born Canadian science fiction writer and musician. Dantec was born in Grenoble...
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List of The Outer Limits (1963 TV series) episodes (category Lists of American science fiction television series episodes)
Twilight Zone," "The Outer Limits," and TV Political Fantasy 1959-1965; Rick Worland - Science Fiction Studies - Vol. 23, No. 1 (Mar., 1996), pp. 103-122 (20...
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fields of research. The science fiction genre, primarily speculative fiction, can transmit the ideas and methods of science to the general public. Recent...
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This is an inclusive list of science fiction television programs classified by genre. BKN International AG (2008). "Dork Hunters from Outer Space". BKN...
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fiction since then; in the catalogue of early science fiction works compiled by E. F. Bleiler and Richard Bleiler in the 1998 reference work Science-Fiction:...
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Venus has been used as a setting in fiction since before the 19th century. Its opaque cloud cover gave science fiction writers free rein to speculate on...
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The Nine Billion Names of God (category Religion in science fiction)
a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers...
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Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889, by Jules Verne. 1910 in science 1909 in science fiction 1911 in science fiction "Fritz Leiber | American author"...
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Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction is the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film Pulp Fiction, released on September 27, 1994, by MCA Records...
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Sam J. Lundwall (category Swedish science fiction writers)
Lundwall, is a Swedish science fiction writer, translator, publisher and singer. He translated a number of science-fiction-related articles and works...
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marked, in science fiction, by the following events. November 7 : Raphael Aloysius Lafferty, American writer (died 2002) The main science-fiction Awards known...
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Aniara (category Science fiction books)
Aniara (Swedish: Aniara: en revy om människan i tid och rum) is a book-length epic science fiction poem written by Swedish Nobel laureate Harry Martinson...
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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...
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Robert Silverberg bibliography (category Science fiction bibliographies)
List of the published work of Robert Silverberg (b. 1935), American science fiction author and editor. A complete list would include over 500 books. Nidorian...
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Alfredo Cardona Peña (category Costa Rican science fiction writers)
Mexican Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy (1996). "Alfredo Cardona Peña - Detalle del autor - Enciclopedia de la Literatura en México - FLM - CONACULTA"...
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detective fiction (推理小説, suiri shōsetsu, literally deductive reasoning fiction), is a popular genre of Japanese literature. When Western detective fiction spread...
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storytelling device. The genre is not necessarily science-themed, and blurs the line separating science fiction and fantasy into a broad scope of mainstream...
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Hamer's O' Horten. On television she is known for her role in the 1978 science fiction series Blindpassasjer (Blind passengers), written by Tor Åge Bringsværd...
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