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Axiomatic (ISBN 0-7528-1650-0) is a 1995 collection of short science fiction stories by Greg Egan. [1] The stories all delve into different aspects of self and identity. The Guardian described it as "Wonderful mind-expanding stuff, and well-written too." [citation needed]
Climate change—science fiction dealing with effects of anthropogenic climate change and global warming at the end of the Holocene era; Megacity; Pastoral science fiction—science fiction set in rural, bucolic, or agrarian worlds, either on Earth or on Earth-like planets, in which advanced technologies are downplayed. Seasteading and ocean ...
The theory of narrative identity postulates that individuals form an identity by integrating their life experiences into an internalized, evolving story of the self that provides the individual with a sense of unity and purpose in life. [1] This life narrative integrates one's reconstructed past, perceived present, and imagined future.
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 ...
Science Fiction Stories: 1956 A Year in the Linear City: Paul Di Filippo: 2002 All Summer in a Day: Ray Bradbury: The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: 1954 All You Zombies: Robert A. Heinlein: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 1959 Allamagoosa: Eric Frank Russell: Analog Science Fiction: 1955 And I Awoke and Found Me Here on ...
Science fiction can act as a vehicle to analyze and recognize a society's past, present, and potential future social relationships with the other. Science fiction offers a medium and representation of alterity and differences in social identity. [192] Brian Aldiss described science fiction as "cultural wallpaper". [193]
The New Wave is a movement in science fiction produced in the 1960s and 1970s and characterized by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content, a "literary" or artistic sensibility, and a focus on "soft" as opposed to hard science.
"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 ...