Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In "For a Foggy Night", another many-worlds story, a math professor crosses the street from his hotel through a dense fog to go to a bar. There he has a conversation with a stranger who tells him that the fog results from the collision of many universes and the probability that something like the fuzzy objects exist in a preponderance of the ...
The Physics and Astronomy of Science Fiction: Understanding Interstellar Travel, Teleportation, Time Travel, Alien Life and Other Genre Fixtures. McFarland. pp. 57– 60. ISBN 978-0-7864-7053-2. Bly, Robert W. (2005). "Asteroids Colliding with the Earth". The Science in Science Fiction: 83 SF Predictions That Became Scientific Reality.
An extraterrestrial or alien is a lifeform that did not originate on Earth. The word extraterrestrial means 'outside Earth'. Extraterrestrials are a common theme in modern science-fiction, and also appeared in much earlier works such as the second-century parody True History [1] by Lucian of Samosata.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 1955 Drode's Equations: Richard Grant: The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF: 1981 Dulcie and Decorum: Damon Knight: Galaxy Science Fiction: 1955 Dune short stories: Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson: The Road to Dune: 2005 E for Effort: T. L. Sherred: Analog Science Fiction ...
Katakana: ヒヒイロカネ or kanji: 緋々色金 It is a red-orange fantasy metal that is common in Japanese fiction. Hyperium: Giants: One of three stable transuranic elements predicted by the new science of nucleonics in James P. Hogan's Giants series. Not naturally occurring outside of neutron stars, but trace amounts are created in the ...
Wormholes are the cause of John Crichton's presence in the far reaches of our galaxy and the focus of an arms race of different alien species attempting to obtain Crichton's perceived ability to control them. Crichton's brain was secretly implanted with knowledge of wormhole technology by one of the last members of an ancient alien species.
Linguistics has an intrinsic connection to science fiction stories given the nature of the genre and its frequent use of alien settings and cultures. As mentioned in Aliens and Linguists: Language Study and Science Fiction [1] by Walter E. Meyers, science fiction is almost always concerned with the idea of communication, [2] such as communication with aliens and machines, or communication ...