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The oldest known fictional account of immortality is also the oldest surviving work of fiction: the Epic of Gilgamesh, an ancient Sumerian tale from c. 2100 BCE. [1] [2] [3] Several Greek myths of antiquity depict mortals such as Ganymede and Tithonus being granted everlasting life by the gods.
Terra Ignota by Ada Palmer – A science fiction series released from 2016 to 2021 drawing from renaissance humanism, the enlightenment, and the rationalist movement. Takes place in the year 2454, when the nation-state system has given way to a system of globe-spanning voluntary cultural collectives known as hives, each with their own set of ...
This is a list of people claimed to be immortal. This list does not reference purely spiritual entities (spirits, gods, demons, angels), non-humans (monsters, aliens, elves), or artificial life (artificial intelligence, robots). This list comprises people claimed to achieve a deathless existence on Earth.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Well-known example of a modern philosophical novel. Santayana, George: 1863–1952 Unamuno, Miguel de: 1864–1936 Pirandello, Luigi: 1867–1936 Maxim Gorky: 1868-1936 The Life of Klim Samgin; Proust, Marcel: 1871-1922 In Search of Lost Time; Chesterton, G. K. 1874-1936 Mann, Thomas: 1875-1955 The Magic Mountain; Hesse ...
For example, Adolf Hitler waged a brutal war in the 20th century with magic weapons, Werner Heisenberg defined the uncertainty principle of thaumaturgy, and flying carpets take the place of automobiles. However, there are some fundamental differences, e.g., the United States and Mexico are both ruled by hereditary monarchies.
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 following is a list of works that were published posthumously. An asterisk indicates the author is listed in multiple subsections. (For example, Philip Sidney appears in four.)
Tuck Everlasting is an American children's novel about immortality written by Natalie Babbitt and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1975. It has sold over 5 million copies and has been called a classic of modern children's literature.