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The fictional universe of Leigh Bardugo's fantasy novels, starting with Shadow and Bone trilogy, which includes Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising. It is also the universe which includes the Six of Crows and King of Scars duologies. Named for the magical Grisha, a central group in the books. Islands of Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver's Travels: 1726
The Firefly universe by Josh Whedon; The Foundation universe of the Robot–Empire–Foundation series, by Isaac Asimov; The Gaean Reach universe by Jack Vance; The Galactic Center Saga universe by Gregory Benford; The Halo universe by Bungie; The Heechee universe by Frederik Pohl; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Universe by Douglas Adams
This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance-era precursors and proto-science fiction as well, as long as these examples include typical science fiction themes and topoi such as travel to outer space and encounter with alien life-forms.
Books are listed in alphabetical order by title, ignoring the leading articles "A", "An" and "The". Novel series are alphabetical by author-designated name or, if there is none, the title of the first novel in the series or some other reasonable designation.
Many of the most enduring science fiction tropes were established in Golden Age literature. Space opera came to prominence with the works of E. E. "Doc" Smith; Isaac Asimov established the canonical Three Laws of Robotics beginning with the 1941 short story "Runaround"; the same period saw the writing of genre classics such as the Asimov's Foundation and Smith's Lensman series.
The Foundation universe is the future history of humanity's colonization of the galaxy, spanning nearly 25,000 years, created through the gradual fusion of the Robot, Galactic Empire, and Foundation book series written by American author Isaac Asimov.
Two further stories in the same universe, "The Star Hunter" (1958) and "The Tattooed Man" (1957), were reissued in 2014 as The Last of the Star Kings. The Star Kings (1949), originally published in Amazing Stories in 1947, and as a paperback in 1950 under the title Beyond the Moon [20] Return to the Stars (1968) "Stark and the Star Kings" (2005)
It also tells you whom else you might like if you like one author. Other invaluable works include The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , edited by John Clute and Peter Nicholls (2nd. Ed. 1991), The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , edited by George Mann (1999) ( ISBN 0-7867-0887-5 or ISBN 1-84119-177-9 ), and Twentieth-Century Science ...