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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 colonization. Pirate utopia. Reality Television. Space colonization. Colonization of the Moon. Ecumenopolis.
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life. It is related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many ...
2001: a Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. Written concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001 is just one of author Arthur C. Clarke's massive array of sci-fi novels. Clarke was so prolific ...
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.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, The Master Mind of Mars, A Fighting Man of Mars, Swords of Mars, Synthetic Men of Mars, Llana of Gathol and John Carter of Mars. Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro. Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. The Beast Master by Andre Norton. Becoming Alien by Rebecca Ore.
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James Cameron, writer and director of Avatar, at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con. The 2009 American science fiction film Avatar has provoked vigorous discussion of a wide variety of cultural, social, political, and religious themes identified by critics and commentators, and the film's writer and director James Cameron has responded that he hoped to create an emotional reaction and to provoke ...
—Ursula K. Le Guin Le Guin refused a Nebula Award for her story "The Diary of the Rose" in 1977, in protest at the Science Fiction Writers of America's revocation of Stanisław Lem's membership. Le Guin attributed the revocation to Lem's criticism of American science fiction and willingness to live in the Eastern Bloc, and said she felt reluctant to receive an award "for a story about ...