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

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...

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...

themes in speculative fiction include lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBTQ) themes in science fiction, fantasy, horror fiction and related genres...

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...

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...

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"...

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

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

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...

Retrieved April 15, 2017. Thorpe, JR (February 4, 2015). "10 Times Science Fiction Predicted The Future, From Credit Cards To Earbuds". bustle.com. "These...

Bloodchild and Other Stories is the only collection of science fiction stories and essays written by American writer Octavia E. Butler. Each story and...

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

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...

flying saucer, or flying disc, is a purported disc-shaped UFO. In science fiction, reported UFO sightings, and UFO conspiracy theories, they are typically...

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...

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...

American author Francine Pelletier (writer) (born 1959), Canadian science fiction author Francine Pelletier (journalist) (born c. 1955), Canadian television...

American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series. He is sometimes...

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...

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...

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...

the book, Science Fiction et Soucoupes Volantes (Science Fiction and Flying Saucers). The book raised the question of whether science fiction anticipated...

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...

Reading". The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. p. 70. Reinsberg, Mark (June 1953). "Imagination Science Fiction Library". Imagination. p. 145. Conklin...

of mankind. In 1888 English author H. G. Wells published his famous science-fiction novella The Time Machine featuring a future evolution of humans and...

without crossing the space between. Wormholes are a popular feature of science fiction as they allow faster-than-light interstellar travel within human timescales...

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Figures in Science Fiction. New York: Routledge, 2010. ISBN 0-203-87470-6 (pp. 205–210). Richard Bleiler, "John Davis Beresford (1873–1947)" in Darren...

phenomena as meteors. Science fiction depictions of spacecraft similar to flying saucers before the first widely-reported UFO sighting in 1947 Many scholars,...