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  2. Science fiction - Wikipedia

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    [28] [29] Kepler has been called the "father of science fiction". [30] [31] Following the 17th-century development of the novel as a literary form, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and The Last Man (1826) helped define the form of the science fiction novel. Brian Aldiss has argued that Frankenstein was the first work of science fiction.

  3. Quantum fiction - Wikipedia

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    Quantum fiction is a genre of speculative fiction that reflects modern experience of the material world and reality as influenced by quantum theory and new principles in quantum physics. It is characterized by the use of an element in quantum mechanics as a storytelling device .

  4. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    First referenced in a 1989 issue of The Physics Teacher. [9] It was apparently discovered by the fictional Thomas Kyle, who was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for physics for his discovery, [10] and it is a parody on bureaucracy of scientific establishments and on descriptions of newly discovered chemical elements. Administrontium Scientific in-joke

  5. Category:Fictional physicists - Wikipedia

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  6. Definitions of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    "A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...

  7. Psionics - Wikipedia

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    In American science fiction of the 1950s and '60s, psionics was a proposed discipline that applied principles of engineering (especially electronics) to the study (and employment) of paranormal or psychic phenomena, such as extrasensory perception, telepathy and psychokinesis. [1]

  8. Category:Fiction about physics - Wikipedia

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  9. Hard science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell 's Islands of Space in the November issue of Astounding Science Fiction .