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  2. Sodium acetate - Wikipedia

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    Unlike some types of heat packs, such as those dependent upon irreversible chemical reactions, a sodium acetate heat pack can be easily reused by immersing the pack in boiling water for a few minutes, until the crystals are completely dissolved, and allowing the pack to slowly cool to room temperature. [15]

  3. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Science Fantasy of Sci-Fan, is a hybrid genre within speculative fiction that simultaneously draws upon or combines tropes and elements from both science fiction and fantasy.[1] In a conventional science fiction story, the world is presented as being scientifically logical, while a conventional fantasy story contains mostly supernatural and ...

  4. Science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Science fiction (sometimes shortened to sci-fi or abbreviated SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

  5. Category:Science fiction genres - Wikipedia

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    Science fiction by genre (22 C, 3 P) * Science fiction novels by subgenre (17 C) C. Christian science fiction (8 P) Science fiction comedy (18 C, 66 P) D. Dieselpunk ...

  6. Outline of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    Genre fiction – fictional works (novels, short stories) written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre. Also known as popular fiction. Speculative fiction; Genrescience fiction is a genre of fiction.

  7. Idoru - Wikipedia

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    Idoru is a science-fiction novel set in a postmodern, dystopian, cyberpunk future. One of the main characters, Colin Laney, has a talent for identifying nodal points , analogous to Gibson's own: Laney’s node-spotter function is some sort of metaphor for whatever it is that I actually do.

  8. Definitions of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    "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 ...

  9. The Boy Who Reversed Himself - Wikipedia

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    The Boy Who Reversed Himself (1986) is a science fiction novel by William Sleator. The novel deals with an exploration into other dimensions, and provides a journey into the world beyond our own. The novel deals with an exploration into other dimensions, and provides a journey into the world beyond our own.