Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible (or at least non-supernatural) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities. Exploring the consequences of scientific innovations is one purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas".

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Science fiction

Exploring the Unknown

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Alien worlds

Alien worlds

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Burroughs' Barsoom series

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Lost worlds

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The Lost World literary genre is a fantasy or science fiction genre that involves the discovery of a new world out of time, place, or both. It began as a subgenre of the late-Victorian imperial romance and remains popular to this day.

Burroughs' Caspak trilogy

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Space and the universe

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Terrestrial exploration

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New lifeforms

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Alien lifeforms

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Artificially-engineered lifeforms

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Constructed, re-vivified, genetically engineered or otherwise intentional, artificial creation of new lifeforms.

Machine lifeforms

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Newly discovered lifeforms

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Mutations

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Both natural or accidental, artificial changes to existing life.

Science and inventions

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New discoveries, new inventions and new technology.

Edisonade

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"Edisonade" is a modern term, coined in 1993 by John Clute in his and Peter Nicholls' The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, for stories based around a brilliant young inventor and his inventions, many of which would now be classified as science fiction. This sub-genre started in the Victorian and Edwardian eras and had its apex of popularity during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Time and reality

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Alternative realities

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Other dimensions

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Time travel

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Afterlife

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The World of Tomorrow

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Utopian novels, views of the future and predictions of things to come.

Other

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Humour

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Miscellaneous fiction

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Non-fiction

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Thrillers

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