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Science fiction Science-fiction books, magazines, film, TV, gaming and fandom material TV Genre The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp
Science fiction film is a film genre that uses speculative, science-based depictions of imaginary phenomena such as extra-terrestrial lifeforms, alien worlds, and time travel, often along with technological elements such as futuristic spacecraft,...
Computer Game Genre South Coast
Literary Genre Half Share
Website Category The Incunabula Papers: Ong's Hat and Other Gateways to New Dimensions
Quotation Subject Ong's Hat: The Beginning
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Cyberspace   Film subject Snow Crash
Cyberspace is a global domain within the information environment consisting of the interdependent network of information technology infrastructures (ITI) including the Internet, telecommunications networks, computer systems, and embedded processors...
Location What just happened: a chronicle from the information frontier
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Computer Science Field Of Study Snow Crash
Computer science (or computing science) is the study and the science of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer system. Computer science has many sub-fields; some emphasize the...
Profession The Diamond Age
Degree The Art of Computer Programming
HP Computer Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing
Feed Category Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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Nanotechnology Molecular gears from a NASA computer simulation Exhibition subject Snow Crash
Nanotechnology refers to a field of applied science whose theme is the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology is approximately 100 nanometer or smaller and involves developing materials or devices within that...
The Diamond Age
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University life     The Big U  
Satire 1867 edition of the satirical magazine Punch, a British satirical magazine, ground-breaking on popular literature satire Comic Strip Genre The Big U
Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing art. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of...
TV Genre American Psycho
Website Category A Modest Proposal
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Time travel Analogy to a wormhole in a curved 2D space (see Embedding Diagram) Film subject In The Garden of Iden
Time travel is the concept of moving between different moments in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects (or in some cases just information) backwards in time to a moment before the present, or...
Character Power Mendoza in Hollywood
The End of Eternity
Thrice Upon a Time
The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
Hollywood   Film Mendoza in Hollywood
Hollywood, also known as Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film (1980) is a documentary series produced by Thames Television which discussed the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture. ...
Scripture   Musical Artist 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated  
The Bible   Musical Artist 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated
The Bible were an independent UK band with lead singer Boo Hewerdine. The band released two critically acclaimed album in the mid 1980s. In 1985 Hewerdine, who worked in a record shop in Cambridge, formed The Bible, recruiting jazz drummer Tony...
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Detective fiction Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes TV Genre  
Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centers upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. Detective fiction is the most popular form of both mystery fiction and hardboiled crime...
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Conspiracy fiction   Film genre  
The conspiracy thriller (or paranoid thriller) is a subgenre of thriller fiction. A common theme in such works is that characters discovering a secretive conspiracy may be unable to tell what is true about the conspiracy, or even what is real:...
Novel Literary Genre A Tale of Two Cities
A novel (from, Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new", "news", or "short story of something new") is today a long written, fiction, prose narrative. The seventeenth-century genre conflict between long romance and short novels,...
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Crime fiction Dr Watson (left) and Sherlock Holmes, by Sidney Paget TV Genre The Dark Arena
Crime fiction is the genre of fiction that deals with crime, their detection, criminals and their motive. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and...
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Horror fiction Groupofzombiesjoelf Computer Game Genre  
Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of a supernatural element into everyday human experience. Since...
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Thriller   Film genre  
The thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, gaming and television. It includes numerous, often overlapping sub-genre. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful hero who must thwart the plans of more...
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Fantasy Dobrynya Nikitch rescues Zabava Putyatichna from the dragon Gorynych TV Genre The Legacy of Vashna
Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and...
Computer Game Genre The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp
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Short story   Type/domain equivalent topic  
The short story is a literary genre of fiction, prose narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such as novella (in the modern sense of the term) and novel. Short stories have their origins in oral story...
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Comic novel   Literary Genre Ong's Hat: The Beginning
A comic novel is a work of fiction in which the writer seeks to amuse the reader, sometimes with subtlety and as part of a carefully woven narrative; sometimes, above all other considerations. One of the most notable British comic novelists is P. G...
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Mystery fiction Bermudatriangle (sketch) TV Genre  
''' Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term that is often used as a synonym of detective fiction in other words a novel or short story in which a detective (either professional or amateur) solves a crime. The term "mystery fiction" may sometimes...
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Novella      
A novella is a written, fiction, prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. While there is some disagreement as to what length defines a novella, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Award for science...
Utopian and dystopian fiction   Literary Genre  
The utopia and its offshoot, the dystopia, are genres of literature that explore social and political structures. Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal world, or utopia, as the setting for a novel. Dystopian fiction is the opposite: creation...
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Romance novel Thetawnygoldman Computer Game Genre  
A romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novel in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying...
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Spy fiction John Buchan, dit Lord Tweedsmuir (1875-1940)   Declare
The genre of spy fiction—sometimes called political thriller or spy thriller or sometimes shortened simply to spy-fi—arose before World War I at about the same time that the first modern intelligence agencies were formed. The Dreyfus Affair...
Adventure novel   Literary Genre  
The adventure novel is a literary genre of novels that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure has been a common theme since the earliest days of written fiction. Indeed, the standard...
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Picaresque novel Lazarillo de Tormes visto por Francisco de Goya. Literary Genre  
The picaresque novel (Spanish: "picaresca", from "pícaro", for "rogue" or "rascal") is a popular subgenre of prose fiction which is usually satirical and depicts in realistic and often humorous detail the adventure of a roguish hero of low social...
Speculative fiction Goya, le Sommeil de la raison produit des monstres TV Genre  
Speculative fiction is a style of fiction which explores the nature of unproven entities or occurrences. In some contexts, it has been used as an inclusive term covering a group of fiction genre that speculate about worlds that are unlike the real...
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Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction   Computer Game Genre The Drowned World
Post-Apocalyptic directly constitutes an occurrence that is after an apocaplyptic event. Post-Apocalpytic - After-Apocalypse Post-Apolcalyptic movies deal with many different scenarios often dealing with the end of man kind, the destruction of...
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Chick lit      
"Chick lit" is a term used to denote genre fiction written for and marketed to young women, especially single, working women in their twenties and thirties. The genre's creation was spurred on, if not exactly created, by Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole...
Romantic fiction      
Romantic fiction may refer to: