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  2. Terraforming in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Terraforming is well represented in contemporary literature, usually in the form of science fiction, as well as in popular culture. [1] [2] While many stories involving interstellar travel feature planets already suited to habitation by humans and supporting their own indigenous life, some authors prefer to address the unlikeliness of such a concept by instead detailing the means by which ...

  3. List of science fiction short stories - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Xenoarchaeology - Wikipedia

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    Xenoarchaeology, a branch of xenology dealing with extraterrestrial cultures, is a hypothetical form of archaeology that exists mainly in works of science fiction. The field is concerned with the study of the material remains to reconstruct and interpret past life-ways of alien civilizations.

  5. Earth in science fiction - Wikipedia

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    The term itself, however, was coined by Jack Williamson in a science-fiction short story ("Collision Orbit") published in 1942 in Astounding Science Fiction, [6] [7] [4]: 235 [8] although the concept of terraforming in popular culture predates this work; for example, the idea of turning the Moon into a habitable environment with atmosphere was ...

  6. Subterranean fiction - Wikipedia

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    Subterranean fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction, science fiction, or fantasy which focuses on fictional underground settings, sometimes at the center of the Earth or otherwise deep below the surface. The genre is based on, and has in turn influenced, the Hollow Earth theory.

  7. The Sentinel (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "The Sentinel" is a science fiction short story by British author Arthur C. Clarke, written in 1948 and first published in 1951. Its plot and ideas influenced the development of the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and its corresponding novel.

  8. How Chinese science fiction went from underground magazines ...

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    For a few days in October 2023, the capital of the science fiction world was Chengdu, China. Fans traveled from around the world as Worldcon, sci-fi’s biggest annual event, was held in the ...

  9. Biology in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Boris Karloff in James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein, based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel.The monster is created by an unorthodox biology experiment.. Biology appears in fiction, especially but not only in science fiction, both in the shape of real aspects of the science, used as themes or plot devices, and in the form of fictional elements, whether fictional extensions or applications of ...