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Chaos Insurgency — a splinter group of the SCP Foundation, created by a rogue task force that went A.W.O.L. with several SCP objects in 1924 and has been fighting the Foundation since. [3] Maquis — resistance to the Cardassians in Star Trek. The Mephi — rebels getting ready to revolt against OneState in We by Evgeny Zamyatin.
The hypothetical particles tachyons, defined through being faster than light, have inspired many occurrences in fiction. [1] [2] In general, tachyons are a standby mechanism upon which many science fiction authors rely to establish faster-than-light communication, with or without reference to causality issues, [3] [4] as well as a means to achieve faster-than-light travel. [4]
Delyno Brown (born August 5, 1981), [citation needed] [1] better known as Pressure or Pressure Busspipe, is a reggae musician from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. [2] He gained his early experience working on the Star Lion sound system in the late 1990s. [3] His debut album, The Pressure Is On, was produced by Dean Pond and released in 2005.
Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall.It was adapted into the film Sphere in 1998. [1]The story follows Norman Johnson, a psychologist engaged by the United States Navy, who joins a team of scientists assembled to examine a spacecraft of unknown origin discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Subterranean fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction, science fiction, or fantasy which focuses on fictional underground settings, sometimes at the center of the Earth or otherwise deep below the surface. The genre is based on, and has in turn influenced, the Hollow Earth theory.
Footfall is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to the Solar System from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet. Their intent is conquest of the planet Earth.
Science fiction poetry's main sources are the sciences and the literary movement of science fiction prose. [9]Scientifically informed verse, sometimes termed poetry of science, is a branch that has either scientists and their work or scientific phenomena as its primary focus; it may also use scientific jargon as metaphor. [10]
The Futurians were a group of science fiction fans, many of whom became editors and writers as well. The Futurians were based in New York City and were a major force in the development of science fiction writing and science fiction fandom in the years 1937–1945.