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  2. Fictional currency - Wikipedia

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    Coin props depicting a fictional wizarding currency in the Harry Potter fantasy films.. Authors doing worldbuilding and creating imaginary societies have to take care when naming fictional currencies because of the associations between currency names and countries; recognizable names for currencies of the future (e.g. dollar or yen) may be used to imply how history has progressed, but would ...

  3. List of fictional countries set on Earth - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.

  4. List of fictional galactic communities - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of fictional galactic communities who are space-faring, in contact with one or more space-faring civilizations or are part of a larger government, coalition, republic, organization or alliance of two or more separate space-faring civilizations.

  5. Sun in fiction - Wikipedia

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    [6] [73] Willy Ley's 1937 short story "At the Perihelion" involves a close approach to the Sun as part of an escape from Mars, [4] [5] [74] and Charles L. Harness's 1949 novel The Paradox Men (a.k.a. Flight into Yesterday) is a space opera that climaxes with a swordfight atop a space station on the surface of the Sun. [4] [5] [75] [76] In Ray ...

  6. List of fictional countries by region - Wikipedia

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    (The name means "golden table" in Spanish.) Nollop: island state from the novel Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn; San Cristobel: tropical island country in The Guiding Light TV series, also the name for a separate fictional nation in the TV series Automan; San Esperito: South American island nation from the video game Just Cause. Translated in ...

  7. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    Gerrold calls bolognium "technobabble", and cautions against overusing it, or using it carelessly; doing so harms the illusion of reality which good sci-fi needs. [22] In the 1982 sci-fi comedy Big Meat Eater, Bolonium makes up a meat-based fuel; the comedy rock band Bolonium gets its name from said reference.

  8. List of science fiction short stories - Wikipedia

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    A Walk in the Sun (short story) Geoffrey A. Landis: Asimov's Science Fiction: 1991 A Work of Art: James Blish: Science Fiction Stories: 1956 A Year in the Linear City: Paul Di Filippo: 2002 All Summer in a Day: Ray Bradbury: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 1954 All You Zombies: Robert A. Heinlein: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science ...

  9. In the Sun (Joseph Arthur song) - Wikipedia

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    "In the Sun" is the second single from Joseph Arthur's second studio album Come to Where I'm From, though the song had been performed during his live shows as early as 1996. [ 1 ] Release