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Gender has been an important theme explored in speculative fiction.The genres that make up speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, supernatural fiction, horror, superhero fiction, science fantasy and related genres (utopian and dystopian fiction), have always offered the opportunity for writers to explore social conventions, including gender, gender roles, and beliefs about gender.
From the science fiction series Perry Rhodan (1961) Merlin from the H. Beam Piper novel The Cosmic Computer (originally Junkyard Planet ) (1963) Simulacron-3 , the third generation of a virtual reality system originally depicted in the science fiction novel Simulacron-3 (a.k.a. "Counterfeit World") by Daniel F. Galouye (1964) and later in film ...
Since then, many science fiction stories have presented different effects of creating such intelligence, often involving rebellions by robots. Among the best known of these are Stanley Kubrick's 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey with its murderous onboard computer HAL 9000 , contrasting with the more benign R2-D2 in George Lucas's 1977 Star Wars and ...
Many science fiction and fantasy stories involve LGBT characters, or otherwise represent themes that are relevant to LGBT issues and the LGBT community. This is a list of notable stories, and/or stories from notable series or anthologies, and/or by notable authors; it is not intended to be all-inclusive.
In 2021, the story of her surgery was featured in the book Going to Trinidad: A Doctor, a Colorado Town and Stories from an Unlikely Gender Crossroads by Martin J. Smith. [ 2 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] From 2009 onwards, Griggs has mostly written science fiction and speculative fiction .
Mind uploading—transferring an individual's personality to a computer—appears in several works of fiction. [1] It is distinct from the concept of transferring a consciousness from one human body to another. [2] [3] It is sometimes applied to a single person and other times to an entire society. [4]
A whole shelf of trans women's literature. (Photo: Maya Deane) Across the country, bigoted legislators are trying to take away trans health care access, strip trans children from their loving ...
The Left Hand of Darkness is a multiple award-winning 1969 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin.Le Guin's introduction to the 1976 publication of the book identifies Left Hand of Darkness as a thought experiment to explore society without men or women, where individuals share the biological and emotional makeup of both genders.