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2. List of science fiction themes - Wikipedia

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   Climate change—science fiction dealing with effects of anthropogenic climate change and global warming at the end of the Holocene era; Megacity; 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 ...

3. Outline of science fiction - Wikipedia

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   for science fiction published in paperback [12] since 1987: Arthur C. Clarke Award: since 1987: Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award: for best short science fiction since 1996: Méliès d'Or: for science fiction, fantasy and horror films since 2003: Robert A. Heinlein Award "for science fiction and technical writings [that] inspire the human ...

4. History of science fiction - Wikipedia

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   Several stories within the One Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights, 8th–10th centuries CE) also feature science fiction elements.One example is "The Adventures of Bulukiya", where the protagonist Bulukiya's quest for the herb of immortality leads him to explore the seas, journey to the Garden of Eden and to Jahannam (Islamic hell), and travel across the cosmos to different worlds much ...

5. Timeline of science fiction - Wikipedia

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   This is a timeline of science fiction as a literary tradition. While the date of the start of science fiction is debated, this list includes a range of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance-era precursors and proto-science fiction as well, as long as these examples include typical science fiction themes and topoi such as travel to outer space and encounter with alien life-forms.

6. First contact (science fiction) - Wikipedia

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   A scene of a first contact between aliens and humans in Robert Sheckley's 1952 short story "Warrior Race". First contact is a common theme in science fiction about the first meeting between humans and extraterrestrial life, or of any sentient species' first encounter with another one, given they are from different planets or natural satellites.

7. Golden Age of Science Fiction - Wikipedia

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   Many of the most enduring science fiction tropes were established in Golden Age literature. Space opera came to prominence with the works of E. E. "Doc" Smith; Isaac Asimov established the canonical Three Laws of Robotics beginning with the 1941 short story "Runaround"; the same period saw the writing of genre classics such as the Asimov's Foundation and Smith's Lensman series.