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| Science fiction |
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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,...
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| 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--from the Roman Κυβερνήτης (kybernētēs, steersman, governor, pilot, or rudder)--is the global domain of electro-magnetics accessed through electronic technology and exploited through the modulation of electromagnetic energy to achieve a...
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| Location | What just happened: a chronicle from the information frontier | |||
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| Computer Science |
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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...
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| 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 |
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Exhibition subject | Snow Crash |
Nanotechnology or, for short, nanotech, refers to a field of applied science whose theme is the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures 100 nanometer or smaller, and involves developing...
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| Satire |
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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...
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| TV Genre | American Psycho | |||
| Website Category | A Modest Proposal | |||
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| Time travel |
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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...
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| 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.
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| 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 |
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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:...
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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...
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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 |
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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...
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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...
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| 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 |
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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...
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| Speculative fiction |
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Speculative fiction is a term used as an inclusive descriptor covering a group of fiction genre that speculate about worlds that are unlike the real world in various important ways. In these contexts, it generally includes science fiction, fantasy...
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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...
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| Romantic fiction |
Romantic fiction may refer to:
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| Alternate history |
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Literary Genre | Great Kings' War |
Alternate history or alternative history is a subgenre of speculative fiction (or science fiction) and historical fiction that is set in a world in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world. Alternate history literature asks...
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| Autobiographical novel |
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An autobiographical novel is a novel based on the life of the author. The literary technique is distinguished from an autobiography or memoir by the stipulation of being fiction. Names and locations are often changed and events are recreated to make...
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| Philosophical novel |
Philosophical novels are works of fiction in which a significant proportion of the novel is devoted to a discussion of the sort of questions normally addressed in discursive philosophy. These might include the function and role of society, the...
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| High fantasy |
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High fantasy, or epic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy fiction that is set in invented or parallel worlds. Built upon the platform of a diverse body of works in the already very popular fantasy genre, high fantasy came to fruition through the work...
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| Cyberpunk |
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Film genre | Idoru |
Cyberpunk is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life." The name is derived from cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983, although...
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| Space opera |
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Space opera is a subgenre of speculative fiction or science fiction that emphasizes romantic, often melodrama adventure, set mainly or entirely in space, generally involving conflict between opponents possessing powerful (and sometimes quite...
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| Action genre | TV Genre |
The action genre is a class of creative works characterised by a greater emphasis on exciting action sequences than on character development or story-telling. The genre encompasses action film, action game and analogous media in other formats such...
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