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The fictional universe of Leigh Bardugo's fantasy novels, starting with Shadow and Bone trilogy, which includes Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising. It is also the universe which includes the Six of Crows and King of Scars duologies. Named for the magical Grisha, a central group in the books. Islands of Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver's Travels: 1726
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
A universe created from unused concepts by Jack Kirby as well as some of his creator-owned works. Home to Silver Star, Captain Victory, Glory Knights, TeenAgents, and Satan's Six. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen #1: March 1999 A universe where virtually all of fiction is canon.
Clarke as depicted in Amazing Stories in 1953 Clarke's novelette "The Songs of Distant Earth", the cover story for the June 1958 issue of If, was expanded to novel length almost three decades later. For much of the later 20th century, Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein were informally known as the "Big Three" of science fiction ...
A fictional universe, also known as an imagined universe or a constructed universe, is the internally consistent fictional setting used in a narrative or a work of art. This concept is most commonly associated with works of fantasy and science fiction , and can be found in various forms such as novels , comics , films , television shows , video ...
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.
[6]: 106 Some authors of fiction set multiple works in the same world. This is known as a fictional universe. [12] For example, science fiction writer Jack Vance set a number of his novels in the Gaean Reach, a fictional region of space. [8] A fictional universe with works by multiple authors is known as a shared world.
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.