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Golden Age of Science Fiction — a period of the 1940s during which the science fiction genre gained wide public attention and many classic science fiction stories were published. New Wave science fiction — characterised by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content.
Simulated consciousness, synthetic consciousness, etc. is a theme of a number of works in science fiction.The theme is one step beyond the concept of the "brain in a vat"/"simulated reality" in that not only the perceived reality but the brain and its consciousness are simulations themselves.
Science Fantasy or Sci-Fan, is a hybrid genre within speculative fiction that simultaneously draws upon or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy.[1] In a conventional science fiction story, the world is presented as being scientifically logical, while a conventional fantasy story contains mostly supernatural and ...
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) 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.
Science fiction by genre (22 C, 3 P) Soft science fiction (4 C, 9 P) Solarpunk (2 C, 10 P) Space opera (17 C, 36 P) Speculative crime and thriller fiction (294 P)
Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia is a 2021 reference work written by science fiction scholar Gary Westfahl and published by ABC-Clio/Greenwood.The book contains eight essays on the history of science fiction, eleven thematic essays on how different topics relate to science fiction, and 250 entries on various science fiction subgenres, authors, works, and motifs.
Neuroscientist Dr. Dacher Keltner, who consulted on the 2015 movie and its new sequel, on developing characters based on emotions without losing sight of science.
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]