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The term ansible refers to a category of fictional technological devices capable of superluminal or faster-than-light communication. These devices can instantaneously transmit and receive messages across obstacles and vast distances, including between star systems and even galaxies.
Biopunk (a portmanteau of "biotechnology" or "biology" and "punk") is a subgenre of science fiction that focuses on biotechnology. It is derived from cyberpunk, but focuses on the implications of biotechnology rather than mechanical cyberware and information technology. [1]
Dark Aster, the ship of Ronan the Accuser in Guardians of the Galaxy; Milano, the ship of Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Replaced by a similar ship, the Benatar in Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame; Sanctuary II, the ship of Thanos in Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers ...
The list of modern fan conventions for various genres of entertainment extends to the first conventions held in the 1930s.. Some fan historians claim that the 1936 Philadelphia Science Fiction Conference, a.k.a. Philcon, was the first science fiction convention ever held.
One of the simplest examples of a stellar engine is the Shkadov thruster (named after Dr. Leonid Shkadov, who first proposed it), or a class-A stellar engine. [5] Such an engine is a stellar propulsion system, consisting of an enormous mirror/light sail—actually a massive type of solar statite large enough to classify as a megastructure—which would balance gravitational attraction towards ...
Dickson's novelette "Home from the Shore", cover-featured on the February 1963 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, was collected in Mutants. Danger—Human (1970) (as The Book of Gordon Dickson, 1973) Mutants (1970) The Star Road (1973) Ancient, My Enemy (1974) Gordon R. Dickson's SF Best (1978) (revised as In the Bone, 1987) In Iron Years (1980)
The collection was followed by a larger 1972 sequel, Again, Dangerous Visions. The projected third collection, The Last Dangerous Visions, was started, but controversially remained unpublished for decades. The final book has become something of a legend as science fiction's most famous unpublished book.
The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories by Ursula K. Le Guin.It is set in a future history in which civilizations of human beings on planets orbiting a number of nearby stars, including Terra ("Earth"), are contacting each other for the first time and establishing diplomatic relations, and setting up a confederacy under the guidance of the oldest of the ...