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Ace trivia night with these cool and random fun facts for adults and kids. This list of interesting facts is the perfect way to learn something new about life. 105 Fun Facts About Science, History ...
The science fiction studies is the critical assessment interpretation, and discussion of science fiction literature, film, TV shows, new media, fandom, and fan fiction. [215] Science fiction scholars study science fiction to better understand it and its relationship to science, technology, politics, other genres, and culture-at-large. [216]
Science fiction comedy (sci-fi comedy) or comic science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that exploits the science fiction genre's conventions for comedic effect. [1] Comic science fiction often mocks or satirizes standard science fiction conventions, concepts and tropes – such as alien invasion of Earth ...
Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, a proto-science fiction satire; Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan, and a lot of his work, [citation needed] including Slaughterhouse-Five [2] Much of the work of Connie Willis; D. Harlan Wilson's novels Dr. Identity and Codename Prague; The novels of John Sladek.
Dune by Frank Herbert. Dune is epic sci-fi. Operatic sci-fi. It’s the sci-fi of world (nay, universe) building, and in that sense it shares much with the fantasy genre—those works inspired by ...
Several fictional universes exist in science fiction that serve as backstage for novels, short stories, motion pictures and games. This list includes: The Æon Flux universe by Peter Chung; The Alien Nation universe by Rockne S. O'Bannon; The Alliance-Union universe by C. J. Cherryh; The Avatar Universe by James Cameron
Arcot, Wade and Morey – scientist-inventors in science fiction stories by John W. Campbell The Baltimore Gun Club in From the Earth to the Moon – three of its wealthy members (Victor Barbicane, Stuyvesant Nicholl, Ben Sharpe) build a giant gun which launches an occupied capsule to the Moon
The Cosmere is the fictional universe in which the various worlds in most of Sanderson's adult fantasy works are set. The Culture: Consider Phlebas: 1987 Iain M. Banks: Interstellar anarchist, socialist, and utopian society created for a number of science fiction novels and works of short fiction collectively called the Culture series. Dark ...