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  2. List of fictional settlements - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of fictional settlements, including fictional towns, villages, and cities, organized by each city's medium.This list should include only well-referenced, notable examples of fictional towns, cities, settlements and villages that are integral to a work of fiction and substantively depicted therein.

  3. Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction - Wikipedia

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    The co-editor of the science fiction journal Extrapolation and a professor of English at the University of Georgia, Isaiah Lavender III, notes the usefulness of the dictionary for academic analysis of issues, saying "Having these origin dates in mind can help a student or scholar build a framework to analyze something like the concept of the ...

  4. Genesis (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Genesis (2006) is a philosophical science fiction novel by New Zealand author Bernard Beckett. It won the 2007 Esther Glen Award for children's literature, and the 2007 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. [1] As of 2008 it has been published in 22 countries.

  5. Genesis - Wikipedia

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    Genesis, a fictional character in the comic book series Preacher; Genesis, a 1951 story by H. Beam Piper; Genesis: The Origins of Man and the Universe, a 1982 science text by John Gribbin; Genesis, a 1988 epic poem by Frederick Turner; Genesis, a 2000 story by Poul Anderson; Genesis, a 2006 work by Bernard Beckett; Genesis, a 2007 story by Paul ...

  6. Floating cities and islands in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The flying island of Laputa from Gulliver's Travels. (Illustrated 1795.) In science fiction and fantasy, floating cities and islands are a common trope, ranging from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float in the atmosphere of a planet by purported scientific technologies or by magical means.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Local flood theory - Wikipedia

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    The Flood of Noah and Companions (c. 1911) by Léon Comerre. Musée d'Arts de Nantes.. The local flood theory (also known as the limited flood theory) is an interpretation of the Genesis flood narrative where the flood of Noah is interpreted as a local event, generally located in Mesopotamia, instead of a global event.

  9. Setting (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    A setting (or backdrop) is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction. It is a literary element.The setting initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story.