science fiction
Futuristic story category
Science fiction is a genre of storytelling set in imagined futures or alternative realities, typically involving advanced technology, space travel, alien life, or speculative science.
The genre explores how scientific or technological changes might affect humanity: a science fiction novel about colonizing Mars.
Often shortened to sci-fi.
Distinguished from fantasy by its grounding in scientific possibility, however remote.
Non-native being
- first contactHumanity's alien introduction
- spaceshipVehicle for interplanetary travel
- interstellarBetween celestial bodies
- UFOUnidentified aerial craft
abduction · exoplanet · space opera · starship · galactic · xenobiology · invasion · mothership
Organic-mechanical hybrid entity
- androidMachine resembling a person
- bionicMechanically augmented human
- prosthesisManufactured replacement body part
- implantDevice placed inside tissue
augmentation · neural interface · cybernetics · synthetic · transhumanism · cyberware · enhancement · robotics
Dramatic sci-fi in cosmos
- steampunkRetrofuturistic Victorian science fiction
- cyberpunkDystopian tech-noir fiction
- biopunkBiotech-focused speculative fiction
- cli-fiGenre exploring environmental futures
solarpunk · dieselpunk · new wave · alternate history · slipstream
Atomic-scale manipulation science
- singularityPoint where values explode
- space elevatorTethered structure to orbit
- quantum computerDevice calculating via superposition
- terraformingModifying worlds for habitability
holodeck · replicator · cryonics · antimatter · warp drive · teleportation · gene editing · augmented reality
Seemingly absurd truth
- temporalRelating to chronology
- time machineDevice enabling temporal journeys
- DeLoreanStainless steel automobile
- flux capacitorFictional temporal displacement device
TARDIS · chronology · anachronism · continuum · H.G. Wells · predestination · causality · grandfather paradox
Dictatorial, all-controlling regime
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- post-apocalypticAfter global catastrophe
- police stateRegime controlling through surveillance
censorship · authoritarian · resistance · rebellion · tyranny · Big Brother · thought crime · propaganda
alien
Non-native being
- first contactHumanity's alien introduction
- spaceshipVehicle for interplanetary travel
- interstellarBetween celestial bodies
UFO · abduction · exoplanet · space opera · starship · galactic · xenobiology · invasion · mothership · close encounter
cyborg
Organic-mechanical hybrid entity
- androidMachine resembling a person
- bionicMechanically augmented human
- prosthesisManufactured replacement body part
implant · augmentation · neural interface · cybernetics · synthetic · transhumanism · cyberware · enhancement · robotics · bioengineering
space opera
Dramatic sci-fi in cosmos
- steampunkRetrofuturistic Victorian science fiction
- cyberpunkDystopian tech-noir fiction
- biopunkBiotech-focused speculative fiction
cli-fi · solarpunk · dieselpunk · new wave · alternate history · slipstream
nanotechnology
Atomic-scale manipulation science
- singularityPoint where values explode
- space elevatorTethered structure to orbit
- quantum computerDevice calculating via superposition
terraforming · holodeck · replicator · cryonics · antimatter · warp drive · teleportation · gene editing · augmented reality · virtual reality
paradox
Seemingly absurd truth
- temporalRelating to chronology
- time machineDevice enabling temporal journeys
- DeLoreanStainless steel automobile
TARDIS · flux capacitor · chronology · anachronism · continuum · H.G. Wells · predestination · causality · grandfather paradox · bootstrap paradox
totalitarian
Dictatorial, all-controlling regime
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- post-apocalypticAfter global catastrophe
police state · censorship · authoritarian · resistance · rebellion · tyranny · Big Brother · thought crime · propaganda · collapse
- booksnovel, textbooks, study guides, book, paperback
- sci-fiStar Wars, Blade Runner 2049, aliens, Star Trek, The Terminator
- modern fictionnovels, novel, modern literature, debut novels, novellas
- popular fictionbestsellers, page-turners, popular novels, romance novels, mysteries
- space fictionspaceship, astronaut, space adventure, spacecraft, space station
- story typesmyth, fable, fables, legend, drama
science fictionfantasy
Imaginative mental wandering
supernatural fiction · fairy tale · realism · sword and sorcery · literary fiction
science fictionrealism
Accepting things as they are
literary realism · realistic fiction · contemporary fiction · social realism · naturalism
science fictionhistorical fiction
Novels set in actual pasts
period drama · historical romance · costume drama · medieval romance · sword and sandal
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