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As an emerging genre, slipstream has been described as nonrealistic fiction with a postmodern sensibility, exploring an awareness of societal and technological change and psychological breakdown previously shown by science fiction authors during the time of postmodernism, as well as poets and experimental authors in modernism.
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.
The entire Marvel 2099 line is an example of the cyberpunk genre in comics, especially Ghost Rider 2099 and Spider-Man 2099. Marvel's Machine Man Vol. 2; Batman Beyond; The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2013–2014) by Gerard Way and Shaun Simon
Heinlein also edited an anthology of other writers' science fiction short stories. Three non-fiction books and two poems have been published posthumously. One novel has been published posthumously and another, an unusual collaboration, was published in 2006. Four collections have been published posthumously.
This is a list of works classified as biopunk, a subgenre of science fiction and derivative of the cyberpunk movement. Some works may only be centered around biotechnologies and not fit a more constrained definition of biopunk which may include additional cyberpunk or postcyberpunk elements.
Several stories within the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights, 8th–10th centuries CE) also feature science fiction elements.One example is "The Adventures of Bulukiya", where the protagonist Bulukiya's quest for the herb of immortality leads him to explore the seas, journey to the Garden of Eden and to Jahannam (Islamic hell), and travel across the cosmos to different worlds much ...
The second volume of the series is Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 2 (1940). Each volume in the series begins with a two part introduction that describes the important events of 1939 "in the world outside reality" (normal historical events) and "in the real world" (event within the science fiction community).
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction points to A Plunge into Space (Robert Cromie, 1890) [9] as having a subplot very similar to "The Cold Equations". [10] " A Weighty Decision" ( Al Feldstein in Weird Science , 1952) [ 11 ] and the story "Precedent" ( E. C. Tubb in New Worlds , 1952) [ 12 ] also have been cited as potential inspirations.