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Fictional elements by year of introduction (121 C) * ... Fictional science (2 C, 1 P) T. Fictional titles and ranks (2 C, 8 P) W. Words originating in fiction ...
any element, but most commonly potassium: Babylon 5: Rare and expensive; used in jumpgates; forms when ordinary matter is subject to the stresses of a supernova, pushing some of its electron pair-bonds into hyperspace. The most commonly found form derives from 40 K, giving quantium-40. The name was coined by David Strauss in response to a ...
Each story is named after an element in the periodic table, including the then-undiscovered element 117. The stories were commissioned to run on Eileen Gunn's The Infinite Matrix [1] but were published in the Sci Fiction section of SciFi.com, between 2001 and 2003. [2]
Some of the stories from The Arabian Nights, [18] [19] along with the 10th-century The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter [19] and Ibn al-Nafis's 13th-century Theologus Autodidactus, [20] are also argued to contain elements of science fiction. Several books written during the Scientific Revolution and later the Age of Enlightenment are considered true ...
Category: Science fiction novels by year. 9 languages. ... 1947 science fiction novels (7 P) 1948 science fiction novels (11 P) 1949 science fiction novels (14 P)
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world wherein steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions ...
Materials science in science fiction is the study of how materials science is portrayed in works of science fiction.The accuracy of the materials science portrayed spans a wide range – sometimes it is an extrapolation of existing technology, sometimes it is a physically realistic portrayal of a far-out technology, and sometimes it is simply a plot device that looks scientific, but has no ...
In the introduction Pringle offers the working definition, "Science fiction is a form of fantastic fiction which exploits the imaginative perspectives of modern science." In turn, modern science is the "scientific world-view ... as it has come to be accepted by the intelligent layperson", which arguably "first became common property in the mid ...