Tag: fiction

Adventure novel

a literary genre of novels that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme

Batman

fictional comic book superhero

Comic book death

a neologism used in the comic book fan community to refer to the killing off and subsequent return of a long-running character

Convergence

(1997) is a novel in the Heritage Universe series by Charles Sheffield

Doctor Who

adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as "the Doctor"

Epic poetry

An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Oral poetry may qualify as an epic, although even the works of such great poets as Homer, V

Fictional universe

a self-consistent fictional setting with unique background elements such as an imaginary history or geography, and possibly fantasy or science fiction concepts like magic or faster than light travel

Gandahar

Light Years is a 1988 French animated science fiction and fantasy film

juristic person

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Light Years

a 1988 French animated science fiction and fantasy film

Literature

the art of written works

Mainstream

a Hugo award winning science fiction fanzine

Orphans of the Sky

a 1963 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, consisting of two parts

Reflexive

: In fiction: Metafiction In grammar

Superhuman

an entity with intelligence or abilities exceeding normal human standards

Tanarukk

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the planetouched are mortal creatures whose ancestors were extraplanar creatures such as celestials, fiends, or elementals. Aasimar, tieflings, and genasi are the primary planetouched races. Fey'ri

Terry Carr

Terry Gene Carr was a U.S. science fiction author and editor

Toccio the Angel

a Japanese children's book created by Akira Toriyama

Transformers: Universe

a line of toys consisting of repainted re-releases from various Transformers toy lines

Zombie

reanimated corpse devoid of consciousness

1094 Siberia

mentioned briefly in John Varley's science fiction novel Rolling Thunder, where it is described as "an escape-proof prison" of the Republic of Mars

2005

1. The fictionary events of anime series Blood+ began in this year
2. The series also started in this year

Asteroid

1. as places which human beings might colonize; as resources for extracting minerals; as a hazard encountered by spaceships travelling between two other points; and as a threat to life on Earth due to potential impacts
2. play several potential roles in science fiction
3. and asteroid belts are a staple of science fiction stories

Avram Davidson

Davidson wrote many stories for fiction magazines beginning in the 1950s, after publishing his first fiction in Commentary and other Jewish intellectual magazines

Battle of Copenhagen

1. Title: "Sharpe's Prey"- Richard Sharpe and the Expedition to Copenhagen, 1807
2. Author: Bernard Cornwell

Brain-computer interface

1. See brain implants in fiction and philosophy for a review of this literature
2. The prospect of BCIs and brain implants of all kinds have been important themes in science fiction

Channel Tunnel

The tunnel was featured in the explosive climax of the 1996 blockbuster film Mission: Impossible, where a helicopter entered the tunnel

CSS Texas

In the 2005 film Sahara based on Clive Cussler's 1992 novel Sahara, a fictional CSS Texas is supposed to have made the crossing to Africa during the end of the American Civil War and travelled up the Niger River before being buried in the deserts of

Death

A personified character of Death has recurred many times in popular fiction

Erasmus Darwin

Charles Sheffield, an author noted largely for hard science fiction, wrote a number of stories featuring Darwin in a style quite similar to Sherlock Holmes

Espionage

An early example of espionage literature is Kim by the English novelist Rudyard Kipling, with a description of the training of an intelligence agent in the "Great Game" between the UK and Russia in 19th century Central Asia

Geographical Survey Institute of Japan

1. featured in the novel Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami as the intended workplace of his roommate, "stormtrooper"
2. At the time the novel was set, in the late sixties, the GSI was situated in Tokyo

Hanged

Shakespeare's play Henry V features the discovery of the Southampton Plot to kill King Henry V before he sailed to France

Heaven

Works of fiction, especially in the modern fantasy genre, have included numerous different conceptions of Heaven and Hell

hit man

Hitmen have been at times been a notable part of crime film

Hopalong Cassidy

Louis L'Amour wrote a handful of Hopalong Cassidy novels, which are still in print

Introspection

Introspections (also referred to as internal dialogue, interior monologue, self-talk) is the fiction-writing mode used to convey a character's thoughts

meditation

Various forms of meditation have been described in popular culture sources

Metaverse

Although similar concepts have appeared under a variety of names in the cyberpunk genre of fiction as far back as 1981 (in the novella True Names), in the acknowledgments section following the text of Snow Crash, Stephenson writes

NBC suit

For the NBC suits (called 'chemsuits') much used in the Rogue Trooper stories, see

New Harmony

the setting for the season three finale of The CW television series Supernatural

Non-Euclidean geometry

often makes appearances in works of science fiction and fantasy

Parallel universe

While technically incorrect, and looked down upon by hard science-fiction fans and authors, the idea of another “dimension” has become synonymous with the term “parallel universe”

Phobos

In the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, the inhabitants of Laputa claim to have discovered two moons of Mars

Plato

The crater Plato is the location of Moonbase Alpha on the science-fiction TV series Space 1999

Private investigator

The genre graduated onto cinema and television screens and is still a regular theme on stage, screen and book

Royal Society

The early Royal Society is satirised in Jonathan Swift's 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels when the eponymous protagonist visits the flying island of Laputa

SS Great Britain

1. The ship is preserved under a layer of plastic that preserves and nourishes it
2. In Stephen Baxter's novel, Ring, the Great Britain still exists in 3953 AD and is carried aboard the GUT starship Great Northern throughout its unusual voyage

Steampunk

William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's 1990 novel The Difference Engine is often credited with bringing widespread awareness of the genre among science fiction fans (although, as mentioned above, the term was coined by Jeter in 1987.) This novel applies

Steve Gerber

Gerber was the inspiration for the Marvel Universe character Stewart Caldwell, a TV writer who became Thundersword

Tai chi chuan

Tai chi and neijia in general play a large role in many wuxia novels, films, and television series; among which are Yuen Wo Ping's Tai Chi Master starring Jet Li, and the popular Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

The City

In some cases of media, such as fiction works, The City may be used as the name of a city, rather than identifying the city by the name of real-life cities in the same general location

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Sometime between 1982 and 1984 (accounts differ), the British company Supersoft published a text-based adventure game based on the book, which was released in versions for the Commodore PET and Commodore 64

Time travel

themes in science fiction and the media can generally be grouped into two main types and a third, less common type (based on effect—methods are extremely varied and numerous), each of which is further subdivided

Transmission

was founded in order to publish short fiction from unpublished writers

Trojan Horse

According to Homer, Troy stood overlooking the Hellespont - a channel of water that separates Asia Minor and Europe

University of Heidelberg

In 1880, Mark Twain wrote as detailed as humorously about his impressions of Heidelberg's student life in A Tramp Abroad

USS Birmingham

1. The hull number (SSN-695) is easily readable on the submarine in the film
2. This denotes that the footage was taken during commissioning trials as the numbers are removed before active service
3. Footage taken during the commissioning trials for the USS Birmingham was used in the film The Hunt for Red October

Vulcan

Ross Rocklynne wrote a short story, "At the Center of Gravity", about two individuals trapped inside a hollow Vulcan

Wheel clamp

In the animated film Cars, Denver boots are used in a fashion similar to handcuffs, leaving the booted vehicle to hobble along instead of driving normally

Zombie

a staple of modern horror fiction