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  2. Wormholes in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The science fiction computer game Space Rogue featured the use of technologically harnessed wormholes called "Malir gates" as mechanisms for interstellar travel. Navigation through the space within wormholes was a part of gameplay and had its own perils.

  3. Outline of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Golden Age of Science Fiction — a period of the 1940s during which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic science fiction stories were published. New Wave science fiction — characterised by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content.

  4. Science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Science fiction (sometimes shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

  5. Category:Science fiction genres - Wikipedia

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    Science fiction by genre (22 C, 3 P) Soft science fiction (4 C, 9 P) Solarpunk (2 C, 10 P) Space opera (17 C, 36 P) Speculative crime and thriller fiction (294 P)

  6. Definitions of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    "A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...

  7. Category:Speculative fiction genres - Wikipedia

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    Science fiction genres (18 C, 71 P) Superhero fiction genres (3 C) * Speculative fiction comedy (4 C) A. Alternate history (17 C, 19 P) Apocalyptic fiction (19 C, 35 ...

  8. Spy-fi (subgenre) - Wikipedia

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    Spy-fi can be defined as media that centers around the adventures of a protagonist (or protagonists) working as a secret agent or a spy.Usually, these adventures will revolve around defeating a rival superpower or singular enemy from achieving a nefarious aim.

  9. Portal:Speculative fiction/Intro - Wikipedia

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    Speculative fiction is an umbrella phrase encompassing the more fantastical fiction genres, specifically science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural fiction, superhero fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, and alternate history in literature as well as related static, motion, and virtual arts.