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  2. The Integral Trees - Wikipedia

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    The story occurs around the fictional neutron star Levoy's Star (abbreviated "Voy"). The gas giant Goldblatt's World (abbreviated "Gold") orbits this star just outside its Roche limit and therefore its gravity is insufficient to keep its atmosphere, which is pulled loose into an independent orbit around Voy and forms a ring that is known as a gas torus.

  3. Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels - Wikipedia

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    The time period covered is approximately that for science fiction as a category of book publication, although the selected books were not all published in that category. [ 10 ] Pringle admits that fewer than thirty selections may generously be called even "masterpieces of their sort ".

  4. Timeline of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of science fiction novels - Wikipedia

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    Classics of Science Fiction - lists and various breakdowns; Nebula Award Winners; The Core Reading List of Fantasy and Science Fiction - from NESFA; Science fiction, fantasy and horror books by award, lists all award-winning books for 14 genre awards; Best 50 sci-fi novels of all time (Esquire; March 21, 2022)

  6. Hard science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Hard science fiction is a category of science fiction characterized by concern for scientific accuracy and logic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The term was first used in print in 1957 by P. Schuyler Miller in a review of John W. Campbell 's Islands of Space in the November issue of Astounding Science Fiction .

  7. Foundation (book series) - Wikipedia

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    The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov.First published as a series of short stories and novellas in 1942–50, and subsequently in three books in 1951–53, for nearly thirty years the series was widely known as The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation (1951), Foundation and Empire (1952), and Second Foundation (1953).

  8. Symmetric scale - Wikipedia

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    Thus the intervals between scale degrees are symmetrical if read from the "top" (end) or "bottom" (beginning) of the scale (mirror symmetry). Examples include the Neapolitan Major scale (fourth mode of the Major Locrian scale), the Javanese slendro, [4] the chromatic scale, whole-tone scale, Dorian scale, the Aeolian Dominant scale (fifth mode ...

  9. Symbiosis in fiction - Wikipedia

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    The Force in the Star Wars universe is described by the fictional seer Obi-Wan Kenobi as "an energy field created by all living things". In The Phantom Menace, Qui-Gon Jinn says microscopic lifeforms called midi-chlorians, inside all living cells, allow characters with enough of these symbionts in their cells to feel and use the Force. [3]