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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 ".
Extraterrestrials in fiction; End of humanity: Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction; The future. Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction: Apocalypses or worldwide disasters and new societies that develop after the event; History. Alternate history; Scientific prediction of the future (e.g. psychohistory) Human fears: List of science ...
"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 ...
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Alternate history science fiction—fiction set in a world in which history has diverged from history as it is generally known; Comic science fiction; Science fiction erotica; Adventure science fiction—science fiction adventure is similar to many genres; Gothic science fiction—a subgenre of science fiction that involves gothic conventions
The foreword to Prelude to Foundation contains the chronological ordering of Asimov's science fiction books. Asimov stated that the books of his Robot, Empire, and Foundation series "offer a kind of history of the future, which is, perhaps, not completely consistent, since I did not plan consistency, to begin with."
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.
Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by the American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.Like many of Stephenson's novels, its themes include history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics, and philosophy.