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Baum set numerous other novels and short stories explicitly in the same universe, including The Magical Monarch of Mo, Dot and Tot of Merryland, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Queen Zixi of Ix, John Dough and the Cherub, The Sea Fairies, Sky Island, "The Enchanted Types," "The Dummy that Lived," "A Kidnapped Santa Claus", "The Runaway ...
The Firefly universe by Josh Whedon; The Foundation universe of the Robot–Empire–Foundation series, by Isaac Asimov; The Gaean Reach universe by Jack Vance; The Galactic Center Saga universe by Gregory Benford; The Halo universe by Bungie; The Heechee universe by Frederik Pohl; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Universe by Douglas Adams
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.
A collective setting for stories by numerous authors. Thieves' World: 1979: N T C Titan: Marc Gascoigne, Steve Jackson, Ian Livingstone: Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and RPG. Titan: The Fighting Fantasy World: 1986: G N Tortall: Tamora Pierce: Setting of the Tortall series of boosk. Alanna: The First Adventure: 1983: N Tyria ArenaNet: Setting for ...
Many of the most enduring science fiction tropes were established in Golden Age literature. Space opera came to prominence with the works of E. E. "Doc" Smith; Isaac Asimov established the canonical Three Laws of Robotics beginning with the 1941 short story "Runaround"; the same period saw the writing of genre classics such as the Asimov's Foundation and Smith's Lensman series.
Biopunk — centered around biotechnology and genetic engineering in general, biopunk uses some both (post)cyberpunk elements and post-modernist prose to describe a typically dystopian world of biohackers, man-made viruses, mutations, designer babies, artificial life forms, bio-genetic engineered human-animal hybrids and bio-genetically ...
A universe where virtually all of fiction is canon. The main hook of this universe are teams made up of significant people called the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. One such is in Victorian-era Britain where Mina Murray founded a team consisting of Allan Quatermain, Tom Sawyer, Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde, The Invisible Man, and Captain Nemo.
namely, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; and Mostly Harmless; continued by Eoin Colfier with And Another Thing; Homesmind by Pamela Sargent; The Honour of the Knights by Stephen J Sweeney; Hooded Swan series by Brian Stableford