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  2. Instrumentality of Mankind - Wikipedia

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    After attaining power and the expansion of humans in space, they eventually entered a somewhat stagnant phase in which a fixed lifespan of four hundred years was imposed on the human inhabitants of the planets where the Instrumentality directly ruled, all the hard physical labor was done by rightless animal-derived "underpeople", and children ...

  3. List of stories set in a future now in the past - Wikipedia

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    Short story 1895 1920 This short story, part of the weird fiction book The King in Yellow, is set in a future New York City where suicide has been legalized and facilitated by the American government, with 'lethal chambers' that provide a painless death readily available to the public. While the United States is a prosperous and militarily ...

  4. Transhumanism in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau both involve scientific men whose failed experiments in tampering with nature result in the story's conflict. The cyberpunk genre is heavily influenced by transhumanism, generally criticizing the use of technology to improve human life by showing the consequences resulting in its misuse.

  5. Short story - Wikipedia

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    A short story is a piece of prose fiction.It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood.

  6. The Evolution of Human Science - Wikipedia

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    "The Evolution of Human Science" (also known as "Catching Crumbs from the Table") is a science fiction short story by American writer Ted Chiang, published in June 2000 in Nature. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The story was also included in the collection Stories of Your Life and Others (2002).

  7. List of time travel works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Short story – A circular paradox in which a man discovers that he is his own mother and father. 1959–1989 The Time Machine series "Donald Keith" alias of Donald & Keith Monroe: Series of 23 short stories published in Boys' Life magazine centered around a patrol of Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine. 1961 Danny Dunn, Time Traveler

  8. There Will Come Soft Rains (short story) - Wikipedia

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    It used the resources of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop under the direction of Malcolm Clarke. [9] In 1984, Soviet studio Uzbekfilm produced "There Will Come Soft Rains" as a short animated film. [10] In 1992, Lebbeus Woods adapted the story to the third issue of the comic book series Ray Bradbury Chronicles.

  9. Transformation (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Transformation is a short story written by Mary Shelley and first published in 1831 for The Keepsake. Guido, the narrator, tells the story of his encounter with a strange, misshapen creature when he was a young man living in Genoa, Italy, around the turn of the fifteenth century. He makes a deal with the creature to exchange bodies, but the ...