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The following is a collection of science fiction novels, comic books, films, television series and video games that take place significantly or partially underwater. They prominently feature maritime and underwater environments or other underwater aspects from the nautical fiction genre, such as in Jules Verne 's classic 1870 novel Twenty ...
The flying island of Laputa from Gulliver's Travels. (Illustrated 1795.) In science fiction and fantasy, floating cities and islands are a common trope, ranging from cities and islands that float on water to ones that float in the atmosphere of a planet by purported scientific technologies or by magical means.
The setting for an epic future history series extending from the 21st century out into the far future. It consists of 27 science fiction novels along with a series of seven short story anthologies and a few other miscellaneous works. Amber multiverse: Nine Princes in Amber: 1970 Roger Zelazny
"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 ...
Science Fiction Literature through History: An Encyclopedia is a 2021 reference work written by science fiction scholar Gary Westfahl and published by ABC-Clio/Greenwood.The book contains eight essays on the history of science fiction, eleven thematic essays on how different topics relate to science fiction, and 250 entries on various science fiction subgenres, authors, works, and motifs.
An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
Star Science Fiction Stories No.2: 1953 Critical Mass (Arthur C. Clarke short story) Arthur C. Clarke: Lilliput: 1949 Crouch End (short story) Stephen King: Cthulhu Mythos anthology: 1980 Crusade (short story) Arthur C. Clarke: The Wind from the Sun: 1968 Dagon (short story) H. P. Lovecraft: The Vagrant: 1919 Dance of the Yellow-Breasted ...
Science in science fiction is the study or of how science is portrayed in works of science fiction, including novels, stories, and films. It covers a large range of topics. Hard science fiction is based on engineering or the "hard" sciences (for example, physics, astronomy, or chemistry).