The literary genre of science fiction is diverse, and its exact definition remains a contested question among both scholars and devotees. This lack of...

Voyage to Icaria (French: Voyage en Icarie [vwajaʒ ɑ̃n ikaʁi]) is a novel written by Étienne Cabet and published in 1840. In this romance, he described...

démocratie en Amérique (French pronunciation: [dəla demɔkʁasi ɑ̃n‿ameˈʁik]; published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic...

Henry Frith (2 May 1840 – 12 October 1917) was an Irish engineer who translated the works of Jules Verne and others, as well as writing his own works....

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...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1840. June – An amnesty to mark the accession of King Frederick William IV of...

of the Sargasso Sea". Science. 304 (5667): 66–74. Bibcode:2004Sci...304...66V. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.124.1840. doi:10.1126/science.1093857. PMID 15001713...

washerwoman, and in The Lord of the Rings, Éowyn pretends to be a man. In science fiction, fantasy and women's literature, this literary motif is occasionally...

(Spanish: picaresca, from pícaro, for 'rogue' or 'rascal') is a genre of prose fiction. It depicts the adventures of a roguish but "appealing hero", usually of...

Biberkopf starts singing the song (as in the novel). In John Ringo's science fiction novel Watch on the Rhine (2005), cannibal alien hordes landing in France...

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...

Marseille: Musées de Marseille. Images en Manoeuvres Editions, 1992. André Leroi-Gourhan, "Cinéma et Sciences Humaines. Le Film Ethnologique Existe-t-il...

drivers of landscape change in the Brigalow Belt, Queensland, Australia, 1840–2004". Landscape and Urban Planning. 78 (4): 375–376. Bibcode:2006LUrbP....

moved to Paris as Directeur d'études in the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, where he taught history of the Mughal empire, and the comparative...

Snow Queen (1980), a science fiction version by Joan D. Vinge[unreliable source?] The Snow Queen (2000), a speculative fiction version by Eileen Kernaghan...

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

Ali's army retreated and Ottoman rule was restored with British support in 1840. The Tanzimat reforms were implemented across the Ottoman Empire. The first...

sequel to Cyrano's science fiction, published by Coeur de Leon in 2012. The Lost Sonnets of Cyrano de Bergerac: A Poetic Fiction by James L. Carcioppolo...

for French-language non-fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a non-fiction book written in French. It...

(1939–2007, Australia), fiction wr. Lois Bryan Adams (1817–1870, United States), wr., journalist & ed. Mary Mathews Adams (1840–1902, Ireland/United States)...

Die Faschingsfee, Kálmán, 1917 Faust, Gounod, 1859 La favorite, Donizetti, 1840 A Feast in Time of Plague, Cui, 1901 A Feast in the Time of Plague, Alex...

Kingdom of the Netherlands. With the abdication of his father on 7 October 1840, William II became king. During his reign, the Netherlands became a parliamentary...

"alcohol made from wood (substance)". The term "methyl" was derived in about 1840 by back-formation from "methylene", and was then applied to describe "methyl...

Tüken Anmarsch ECM New Series ECM 1838 2003 Sylvie Courvoisier Abaton ECM 1840 2003 Ghazal The Rain ECM 1841 N/A N/A N/A unissued ECM 1842/43 2003 Herbert...

she published her Conversations with Lord Byron. Her Idler in Italy (1839–1840), and Idler in France (1841) were popular for their personal gossip and anecdotes...

and Oryx and Crake are science fiction, suggesting to The Guardian in 2003 that they are speculative fiction: "Science fiction has monsters and spaceships;...

well-known ability to survive life-stopping events have brought them into science fiction and popular culture including items of clothing, statues, soft toys...

Fontaine (1621-1695) – poet and fabulist Jules Verne (1828-1905) – science fiction author Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) – military leader and emperor...

to the neighbouring town of Playa Honda. Francisco Aguilar y Leal (1776–1840), soldier and merchant Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark (born 1965)...

Heidegger),[citation needed] and became professor of philosophy at Rennes. From 1840 he was inspector-general of public libraries, and in 1860 became inspector-general...