enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Definitions of science fiction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_science_fiction

    "A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...

  3. Lists of fictional species - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_fictional_species

    Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file

  4. Clam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clam

    Clam. Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve mollusc. The word is often applied only to those that are edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the sea floor or riverbeds. Clams have two shells of equal size connected by two adductor muscles and have a powerful burrowing foot. [1]

  5. Biology in fiction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_in_fiction

    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 ...

  6. Speculative evolution - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_evolution

    Speculative evolution. Speculative evolution is a subgenre of science fiction and an artistic movement focused on hypothetical scenarios in the evolution of life, and a significant form of fictional biology. [1] It is also known as speculative biology[2] and it is referred to as speculative zoology[3] in regards to hypothetical animals. [1]

  7. Science fiction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction

    Space exploration, as predicted in August 1958 by the science fiction magazine Imagination. Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) 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.

  8. Talking animals in fiction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_animals_in_fiction

    A good example of the science fiction genre is the webcomic Anima: Age of the Robots which uses anthropomorphism to portray an alternate world as modern as ours, but inhabited by creature-lookalikes. [disputed – discuss] The intelligent robots that they have made do rebel and threaten the creatures. This serves as a warning to mankind's ...

  9. History of science fiction - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_fiction

    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 ...