Questions tagged [science-fiction-genre]
Used for questions on the science fiction genre itself, including its tropes and conventions. Should **not** be used to categorize questions about specific works of science fiction.
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What is the first science-fiction film that features the Silence Group?
According to Donald Keyhoe, author of "The Flying Saucer Conspiracy," the phrase "Silence Group" has been used in UFO circles since the early 1950s. Wikipedia (entry: UFO ...
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Was the idea of a ship going through a star to refuel based on previous work?
In Stargate Universe there is a spaceship called Destiny which travels the universe seeding planets with stargates and flying through stars to refuel by collecting the raw materials inside. The ship ...
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Where does the "Starname Prime" naming scheme for planets originate?
I mean the name of a star followed by the word Prime, used to denote the system's most important/primary inhabited world. For example, Earth would be called Sol Prime using this naming scheme. I've ...
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SF book where alien girls award medals for sexual prowess
I read this in the UK but it was forty plus years ago so the details are hazy. It could have been a novelette.
There are two Earthmen on some alien planet, I can't remember what their mission was. The ...
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Earliest 'space locust'/'devouring swarm' type of alien in science fiction?
Modern examples include the Zerg from StarCraft, Tyranids from Warhammer 40,000; the aliens from Alien (1979) are also central examples and seem like the immediate antecedent for most modern takes. ...
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Origin of spider tanks
Spider shaped tanks appear regularly in near-future/cyberpunk settings. The earliest examples I'm aware of are from Masamune Shirows 1989 manga series Ghost in the Shell.
While the idea of walking ...
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End of the World, alien planet series
There was a book series I read as a kid that started in futuristic, 'end-of-world' times. The kid is driving somewhere in a self-propelled car and a meteor crashes into the earth causing a tsunami ...
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What was the first story to depict a modern objective-based approach to artificial intelligence?
A great deal of older science fiction has a rules-based approach to artificial intelligence. Think Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics: the robot has a set rule, and it follows it. In many such ...
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I'm looking for a sci fi novel where the main character was either born or became at an early point in life "unmoored" in quantum reality
I may have read this book some time in the 80s or 90s. I don't recall the cover or author. However, I recall that what happened to him was similar to what happened to Worf in that episode of Star Trek:...
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Looking for a science fiction about an "outcast" assassin who falls in love with his target
I read this 3 years ago. It was about a chosen assassin that has the power to just "not exist" or either become invisible. You can share this power if you touch someone else. I'm not exactly ...
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What was the first work that showed someone (or something) inverted by passing through higher dimensions
Prompted by this question, I found myself wondering what the first work of science fiction was in which a character (or object) was inverted by passing through higher dimensions. Martin Gardner ...
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Short story about a blinded galactic veteran
I read this short SF story in an anthology in the UK, approximately 40 years ago.
This blinded (I think,but I'm not sure, that also something about his vocal cords were damaged) and half crippled old ...
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What was the first work of science fiction that accurately depicted stellar evolution?
Many stories from the golden age of science fiction depicted a far-future Earth in which the sun was reddening and dying. This appeared in both humorous (for example, The Dying Earth series by Jack ...
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I am looking for a show that once on Netflix between 2015-2018 about a kid who gets/has fire powers from some entity
The show was a mini series and was 3d animated(I think) I also remember the final episode have a large fight with some red humanoid monster.
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Where can I find "The Device" by Emily W?
The story follows a young woman named Elizabeth Cartwright who acquires a job position at one of the most influential companies in the world, Ambivalent Communications. When she arrives at the ...
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