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In fiction. Audrey Jr.: a man-eating plant in the 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors. Audrey II: a singing, fast-talking alien plant with a taste for human blood in the stage show Little Shop of Horrors and the 1986 film of the same name. Bat-thorn: a plant, similar to wolfsbane, offering protection against vampires in Mark of the Vampire. [1]
Solarpunk. Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement, close to the hopepunk movement, [3] that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. [4][5][6] The "solar" represents solar energy as a renewable energy source and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism ...
The cyberpunk world is dystopian, that is, it is the antithesis of utopian visions, very frequent in science fiction produced in the mid-twentieth century, typified by the world of Star Trek, although incorporating some of these utopias. It is sometimes generically defined as "cyberpunk-fantasy" or "cyberfantasy" a work of a fantasy genre that ...
Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music and a subgenre of hauntology, a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s, [30][31] and became well-known in 2015. [32] It is defined partly by its slowed-down, chopped and screwed samples of smooth jazz, 1970s elevator music, [32] R&B, and lounge music from the 1980s ...
Fantasy. Dieselpunk is a retrofuturistic subgenre of science fiction similar to steampunk or cyberpunk that combines the aesthetics of the diesel -based technology of the interwar period through to the 1950s with retro-futuristic technology [1][2] and postmodern sensibilities. [3] Coined in 2001 by game designer Lewis Pollak to describe his ...
Jim Grimsley, (born 1955) author of the high fantasy novel Kirith Kirin. Lev Grossman, (born 1969) author of The Magicians (Grossman novel) Jeff Grubb, (born 1957) author of the Finder's Stone trilogy with Kate Novak. Gary Gygax, (1938–2008) author of Dungeons & Dragons, other game rules, and fantasy books. H.
Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world wherein steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found ...
Fantasy-prone personality (FPP) is a disposition or personality trait in which a person experiences a lifelong, extensive, and deep involvement in fantasy. [1] This disposition is an attempt, at least in part, to better describe "overactive imagination " or "living in a dream world ". [2] An individual with this trait (termed a fantasizer) may ...