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The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 1958 The Menace from Earth: Robert A. Heinlein: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 1957 The Message (short story) Isaac Asimov: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 1956 The Million Cities: J. T. McIntosh: 1958 The Monster: A. E. van Vogt: Analog Science Fiction: 1948 The Monster of ...
The term "science fantasy" was coined in 1935 by critic Forrest J. Ackerman as a synonym for science fiction. [6] In the 1950s, the British journalist Walter Gillings considered science fantasy as a part of science fiction that was not plausible from the point of view of the science of the time (for example, the use of nuclear weapons in H.G. Wells' novel The World Set Free was a science ...
She has a deep intelligence and a love of science, which makes her the opposite of her brother. He is an electronics engineer specializing in hacking, computer programming and machine building; Dr. Gast (Final Fantasy VII) – former head of the Shinra Company's science department; has a much stronger moral compass than his successor
The setting of the majority of Tolkien's fantasy writings, including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Middle-earth represents the Old World of our planet Earth (named Arda in the stories) in a fictional (pre)historic era. Mistborn: The Final Empire: 2006 Brandon Sanderson: Misterland: Mr. Tickle: 1971 Roger Hargreaves
Climate change—science fiction dealing with effects of anthropogenic climate change and global warming at the end of the Holocene era; Megacity; Pastoral science fiction—science fiction set in rural, bucolic, or agrarian worlds, either on Earth or on Earth-like planets, in which advanced technologies are downplayed. Seasteading and ocean ...
Dream worlds (also called dream realms, illusory realms or dreamscape) are a commonly used plot device in fictional works, most notably in science fiction and fantasy fiction. The use of a dream world creates a situation whereby a character (or group of characters) is placed in a marvellous and unpredictable environment and must overcome ...
Technofantasy is a subgenre of fantasy which has some elements of science and technology. However, the genre does not rationalize their use through scientific or quasi-scientific terms; this distinguishes technofantasy from science fiction and science fantasy.
A fictional vision from 1922 of a floating city in 10,000 years, illustrating a Hugo Gernsback speculative article. The far future has been used as a setting in many works of science fiction. The far future setting arose in the late 19th century, as earlier writers had little understanding of concepts such as deep time and its implications for ...