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The names of some modern inventions (atomic bomb, credit card, robot, space station, oral contraceptive and borazon) exactly match their fictional predecessors. A few works correctly predicted the years when some technologies would emerge, such as the first sustained heavier-than-air aircraft flight in 1903 and the first atomic bomb explosion ...
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction notes that future fictional instruments are generally either "variants on traditional instruments and those that exploit future technology". [4] The following are some examples of both of these types of musical instruments. In the Dune universe, the baliset is a very long nine-stringed zither.
Orbital is a 2023 novel by English writer Samantha Harvey that incorporates elements of science fiction, [3] [4] literary fiction, and philosophical drama, published by Jonathan Cape in the UK and by Grove Atlantic in the US. It follows six fictional astronauts over 24 hours on an orbiting space station.
This page is a listing of articles about fictional technologies and technological devices featured in works of fiction. See also: Category:Hypothetical technology and Category:Science fiction Subcategories
Yume Kitasei’s debut novel, “The Deep Sky,” begins in the pivotal moments just before what should have been a simple space walk gone horribly wrong rocks the world of the 80 young crew ...
It is explained that the T-1000 is a 'Nanomorph', created by Skynet, through the use of programmable nanotechnology. This was only implied in the film itself. The 1992 novel Assemblers of Infinity is a science-fiction novel authored by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason. The plot line makes specific mention of nano-assembly and nano-disassembly ...
As science fiction emerged during the era of Industrial Revolution, the increased presence of machines in everyday life and their role in shaping of the society was a major influence on the genre. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It appeared as a major element of the Proto SF , represented by machines and gadgets in works of Jules Verne , George Griffith , H ...
Kris Longknife [1] series by Mike Shepherd.Space elevators are ubiquitous across the known galaxy. 2061: Odyssey Three (1987), novel by Arthur C. Clarke.The possibility of a space elevator is realised after a groundbreaking discovery that Jupiter's core (now in fragments around the orbit of Lucifer, the small sun formed by the implosion of Jupiter) had been a solid diamond; as the hardest ...