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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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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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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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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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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Marcial Souto (category Argentine science fiction writers)
Marcial Souto (born 1947 in A Coruña, Spain) is a Spanish-born Argentine science fiction writer. Souto originally moved to Uruguay, but has lived in Argentina...
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means "outside Earth". Extraterrestrials are a common theme in modern science-fiction, and also appeared in much earlier works such as the second-century...
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described in science fiction and similar descriptions appeared in early accounts of the 1948 Aztec UFO hoax and later accounts of the 1947 Roswell UFO...
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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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Bloodchild and Other Stories (category Science fiction short story collections)
Bloodchild and Other Stories is the only collection of science fiction stories and essays written by American writer Octavia E. Butler. Each story and...
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Roswell incident (redirect from Roswell incident in fiction)
government of a cover-up. The conspiracy narrative has become a trope in science fiction literature, film, and television. The town of Roswell leverages this...
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Destination Moon (film) (category 1950s science fiction films)
Destination Moon (a.k.a. Operation Moon) is a 1950 American Technicolor science fiction film, independently produced by George Pal and directed by Irving Pichel...
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flying object (UFO) and unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). In science fiction, reported UFO sightings, UFO conspiracy theories, and broader popular...
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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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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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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. Its story follows...
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The Man in the High Castle (category 1962 science fiction novels)
1963). "Books". The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 61. "Philip K. Dick, Won Awards For Science-Fiction Works". The New York Times. March 3, 1982...
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E. E. Smith (category American science fiction writers)
American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes...
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American author Francine Pelletier (writer) (born 1959), Canadian science fiction author Francine Pelletier (journalist) (born c. 1955), Canadian television...
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1010) and Don Quixote (1605, 1615), there is no earlier work of prose fiction of equal sophistication in world literature." Jin Ping Mei is considered...
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religions have their roots in the tropes of early science fiction (especially space opera) and weird fiction writings, in ufology, and in the subculture of...
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(novella) in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958. "A Demon at Devotions" in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1958 (reprinted in Reality Change...
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Planet 51 (category 2009 science fiction films)
Planet 51 is a 2009 animated science fiction comedy film directed by Jorge Blanco and co-directed by Javier Abad and Marcos Martínez, from a script by...
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The Golden Apples of the Sun (category Science fiction short story collections)
Reading". The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. p. 70. Reinsberg, Mark (June 1953). "Imagination Science Fiction Library". Imagination. p. 145. Conklin...
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playwrights List of Canadian short story writers List of Canadian science fiction authors List of Canadian historians List of Canadian women writers...
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and Amy Stewart as Quick. Much of Quick's work was in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, or horror, starting with the story "Scented Gardens" in Oriental...
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Bertrand Méheust (category 1947 births)
the book, Science Fiction et Soucoupes Volantes (Science Fiction and Flying Saucers). The book raised the question of whether science fiction anticipated...
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Paul Auster (category 1947 births)
in: Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 58:4 (2017): 411–425. Martine Chard-Hutchinson "Paul Auster (1947– )". In: Joel Shatzky and Michael Taub...
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