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  2. Genesis II (film) - Wikipedia

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    Genesis II is a 1973 American made-for-television science fiction film [1] created and produced by Gene Roddenberry [2] and directed by John Llewellyn Moxey. [3] The film, which opens with the line, "My name is Dylan Hunt.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  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. 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.

  7. 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 ...

  8. Science fiction film - Wikipedia

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    According to Vivian Sobchack, a British cinema and media theorist and cultural critic: . Science fiction film is a film genre which emphasizes actual, extrapolative, or 2.0 speculative science and the empirical method, interacting in a social context with the lesser emphasized, but still present, transcendentalism of magic and religion, in an attempt to reconcile man with the unknown.

  9. List of Neon Genesis Evangelion films - Wikipedia

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    The End of Evangelion is a 1997 Japanese anime science fiction film written by Hideaki Anno, directed by Anno and Kazuya Tsurumaki, and animated by Gainax and Production I.G. [33] It serves as an alternate ending to the original series, in quite a similar way to the first movies. [34] [35]