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Parent topics
- Literature [r]: The profession of “letters” (from Latin litteras), and written texts considered as aesthetic and expressive objects. [e]
- Film [r]: A visual medium involving the recording and display of images in motion over time, generally by photographic means. [e]
- Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge based on non–trivial refutable concepts that can be verified or rejected on the base of observation and experimentation [e]
- Television [r]: Electronic transmission of moving pictures. [e]
- Radio [r]: Transmission and reception of information, which can be voice, data or imagery over electromagnetic radiation in free space (i.e., wireless). The information is modulated onto a carrier wave [e]
Subtopics
- See also: Robert A. Heinlein/Works
- Lists are alphabetised within sections
History
- Precursors to science fiction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pioneers of science fiction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Golden Age of Science Fiction [r]: The period between the late 1930's through the 1950's in which Science Fiction saw a strong increase in popularity as stories came out focusing on scientific realism and in depth characterization. [e]
- New Wave science fiction [r]: Add brief definition or description
Sub genres
- Cyberpunk [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Dystopian science fiction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hard science fiction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Soft science fiction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Military science fiction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alternate reality science fiction [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Science fiction and ethics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Science fiction and religion [r]: Science fiction works of which religion is a significant theme [e]
- Science fiction and sex [r]: Science fiction in which sex, gender or reproduction are important theme elements [e]
- Steampunk [r]: A genre of science fiction which has a Victorian sensibility. [e]
Magazines
- Amazing Stories [r]: American sci-fi monthly magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing; first magazine devoted solely to science fiction and continued into at least the 1960's. [e]
Major figures and seminal works
Precursors
- Cyrano de Bergerac [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mary Shelley [r]: Add brief definition or description
Pioneers
- Edgar Allan Poe [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jules Verne [r]: Add brief definition or description
- H.G. Wells [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rudyard Kipling [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hugo Gernsback [r]: Add brief definition or description
Innovators
- John W. Campbell [r]: Add brief definition or description
- George Lucas [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gene Roddenberry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Steven Spielberg [r]: Add brief definition or description
Influential authors
- Douglas Adams [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Isaac Asimov [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ray Bradbury [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Lois McMaster Bujold [r]: Add brief definition or description
- C. J. Cherryh [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur C. Clarke [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philip K. Dick [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Frank Herbert [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robert A. Heinlein [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fred Hoyle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ursula K. Le Guin [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Madeleine L'Engle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Jack Vance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- A.E. van Vogt [r]: Add brief definition or description
Seminal works of science fiction
Film
- King Kong [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Day the Earth Stood Still [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Forbidden Planet [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Village of the Damned [r]: Add brief definition or description
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Star Wars [r]: Add brief definition or description
Literature
- The Cold Equations [r]: Add brief definition or description
- You Will Go to the Moon [r]: Add brief definition or description
Radio
Television
- Doctor Who [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Flash Gordon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Star Trek [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Babylon 5 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battlestar Galactica [r]: Add brief definition or description
- War of the Worlds [r]: Add brief definition or description
Science fiction awards
- Hugo Awards [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nebula Awards [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Philip K. Dick Awards [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur C. Clarke Awards [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award [r]: Add brief definition or description
Related nonfiction disciplines
- Futures studies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Artificial intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Robotics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Longevity [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Genetic engineering [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rocket science [r]: Add brief definition or description