The literary genre of science fiction is diverse, and its exact definition remains a contested question among both scholars and devotees. This lack of...
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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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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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Science fiction and fantasy in Estonia is largely a product of the current post-Soviet era. Although somewhat earlier authors, like Eiv Eloon and Tiit...
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A list of science fiction films released in the 1970s. These 235 films include core elements of science fiction, but can cross into other genres. They...
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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction are genres of speculative fiction in which the Earth's (or another planet's) civilization is collapsing or has...
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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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The Day of the Triffids (category 1951 science fiction novels)
Day of the Triffids is a 1951 post-apocalyptic novel by the English science fiction author John Wyndham. After most people in the world are blinded by...
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Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko (category Russian science fiction writers)
All-European Science Fiction Convention Eurocon 2005 in Glasgow, Marina and Serhiy Dyachenko were recognized as the best science fiction writers in Europe...
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Starship Troopers (category American science fiction novels)
Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. Written in a few weeks in reaction to the US suspending nuclear...
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Fictional planets of the Solar System (redirect from Outer planets in fiction)
dubbed "Bodia" (after Johann Elert Bode) in science fiction. Bodia was popular in the pulp era of science fiction, where it was often depicted as similar...
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The Nine Billion Names of God (category Science fiction short stories)
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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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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Pierre Pelot (category French science fiction writers)
Pierre Suragne or Pierre Carbonari), is a French science fiction writer. Born on 13 November 1945, in Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle, Vosges, France. Pelot...
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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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Forbidden Planet (category 1950s science fiction action films)
Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction action film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, and directed by Fred M. Wilcox...
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (category 1959 science fiction novels)
A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic social science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959. Set in a...
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Children of Time (novel) (category 2015 science fiction novels)
Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky. The novel follows the evolution of a civilization of genetically modified...
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was marked, in science fiction, by the following events. December 24 : Fritz Leiber, American writer (died 1992) The main science-fiction Awards known at...
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"If This Goes On—" (category Libertarian science fiction books)
Goes On—" is a science fiction novella by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first serialized in 1940 in Astounding Science-Fiction and revised and...
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Who Goes There? (category History of science fiction)
Who Goes There? is a 1938 science fiction horror novella by American author John W. Campbell, written under the pen name Don A. Stuart. Campbell renewed...
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Spike and Suzy (redirect from Suske en Wiske)
friends and family. The stories combine elements of comedy, fantasy, and science fiction, such as talking animals, time travel and ghosts. The strip still runs...
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The Best of Science Fiction, published in 1946, is an anthology of science fiction anthologies edited by American critic and editor Groff Conklin. "Concerning...
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The Handmaid's Tale (category 1985 science fiction novels)
either science fiction or speculative fiction. I like to make a distinction between science fiction proper and speculative fiction. For me, the science fiction...
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Slaughterhouse-Five (category 1969 science fiction novels)
Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life experiences...
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ski-equipped Douglas C-47 Skytrain is featured in Howard Hawks' 1951 science-fiction thriller, The Thing From Another World, based on the 1938 novella Who...
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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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Stanisław Lem (category Polish science fiction writers)
including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical and humorous character. Lem's books have been...
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List of utopian literature (category Science fiction bibliographies)
qualities. It is a common literary theme, especially in speculative fiction and science fiction. The word "utopia" was coined in Greek language by Sir Thomas...
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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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