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  2. Category:Human experimentation in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Fiction about human subject research, systematic, scientific investigation that can be either interventional (a "trial") or observational (no "test article") and involves human beings as research subjects, commonly known as test subjects. Human subject research can be either medical (clinical) research or non-medical (e.g., social science ...

  3. Synesthesia in fiction - Wikipedia

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    It is also detailed that her synesthesia converts sound to smell and color to sound. In the NBC science fiction series Heroes, the deaf character Emma (played by Deanne Bray) suddenly begins to see sounds as waves of color. Holding the cello in her hands, she senses vibrations as sounds which converts to a synesthetic experience of colors.

  4. List of existing technologies predicted in science fiction

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    The list includes technologies that were first posited in non-fiction works before their appearance in science fiction and subsequent invention, such as ion thruster. To avoid repetitions, the list excludes film adaptations of prior literature containing the same predictions, such as " The Minority Report ".

  5. Science in science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Science in science fiction is the study or of how science is portrayed in works of science fiction, including novels, stories, and films. It covers a large range of topics. Hard science fiction is based on engineering or the "hard" sciences (for example, physics, astronomy, or chemistry).

  6. Dr. Franklin's Island - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Franklin's Island is a young adult science fiction book by Ann Halam published in 2001. It is narrated in the first person. [1] Loosely based on H. G. Wells' 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, [2] it tells the story of three teenagers who end up on an island owned by Dr. Franklin, a brilliant but insane scientist, who wants to use them as specimens for his transgenic experiments.

  7. Benjamin Franklin in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    In the science fiction/alternate history short story "Existential Trips" by William Bevill, Benjamin Franklin appears, and is referenced throughout, as the inventor of a secret society of ghosts who fight crime in time and other dimensions of space, using items from Franklin including a stove and spectacles.

  8. Professor Dowell's Head - Wikipedia

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    Professor Dowell's Head (Russian: Голова профессора Доуэля) is a 1925 science fiction and horror story (and later novel) by Russian author Alexander Belyaev. The story follows the work of a doctor who has secretly revived his old boss's head, who now guides him through new experiments.

  9. Tidsrejsen - Wikipedia

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    The sound designer, Peter Albrechtsen, helped to create most of the sound for the series from scratch. For the technology that came from the future of 2044 he used many bird calls, warping them to sound like computerized sounds, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and many sounds from NASA's archive on SoundCloud was also used. [ 9 ]