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  2. Suspended animation in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Frederik Pohl's science fiction work The Age of the Pussyfoot (1966–1969) tells the story of a man revived from cryopreservation in the year 2527, having died in a fire 500 years earlier. Although relatively few stories explore cryonics for medical time travel, Edgar Allan Poe's mentioned story (1845) includes a mummy, mentioning the use of ...

  3. Tunnel in the Sky - Wikipedia

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    Tunnel in the Sky is a juvenile science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, published in 1955 by Scribner's as one of the Heinlein juveniles.The story describes a group of students sent on a survival test to an uninhabited planet, who soon realise they are stranded there.

  4. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    It can also be worked into other forms with unusual properties such as reflecting only the light of the Moon. The fictional metal has appeared in other fantasy universes, games, and books. "Mythril" appears in the video game series Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. "Mithral" is used in D&D books; "Milrith" in Simon the Sorcerer.

  5. 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 ".

  6. Materials science in science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Materials science in science fiction is the study of how materials science is portrayed in works of science fiction.The accuracy of the materials science portrayed spans a wide range – sometimes it is an extrapolation of existing technology, sometimes it is a physically realistic portrayal of a far-out technology, and sometimes it is simply a plot device that looks scientific, but has no ...

  7. Colloid - Wikipedia

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    Aggregation causes sedimentation or creaming, therefore the colloid is unstable: if either of these processes occur the colloid will no longer be a suspension. Examples of a stable and of an unstable colloidal dispersion. Electrostatic stabilization and steric stabilization are the two main mechanisms for stabilization against aggregation.

  8. List of underwater science fiction works - Wikipedia

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    This is a collection of science fiction novels, comic books, films, television series and video games that take place either partially or primarily underwater. They prominently feature maritime and underwater environments , or other underwater aspects from the nautical fiction genre, as in Jules Verne 's classic 1870 novel Twenty Thousand ...

  9. List of science fiction comedy works - Wikipedia

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    Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, a proto-science fiction satire; Kurt Vonnegut's novel The Sirens of Titan, and a lot of his work, [citation needed] including Slaughterhouse-Five [2] Much of the work of Connie Willis; D. Harlan Wilson's novels Dr. Identity and Codename Prague; The novels of John Sladek.