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==Overarching themes==
==Overarching themes==
{{seealso|Science fiction genre}}
{{seealso|Science fiction genre}}
*[[Cosmology]] <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
*[[Cosmology]]
*[[Creation myth|Creation of the Universe]]
*[[Creation myth|Creation of the Universe]] <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
*The [[future]] <ref name="[[Doctor Who]]"/> <ref name="[[Back to the Future]]"/> <ref name="[[The Time Machine]]"/>
*The [[future]] <ref name="[[Doctor Who]]"/> <ref name="[[Back to the Future]]"/> <ref name="[[The Time Machine]]"/>
*[[History]] <ref name="Doctor Who"/>
*[[History]] <ref name="Doctor Who"/>
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==Types of beings==
==Types of beings==
*Alternate intelligences
*Alternate intelligences
**[[Artificial intelligence]]
**[[Artificial intelligence]] <ref name="[[AI. Artifical intelligence]]"/>
**Beings of pure mentality
**Beings of pure mentality <ref name="[[The Stones of Blood]]"/>
**[[Hive mind]]s
**[[Hive mind]]s <ref name="[[Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]"/>
**[[Infomorph]]s - memories, characters and consciences of persons being uploaded to a computer or storage media
**[[Infomorph]]s - memories, characters and consciences of persons being uploaded to a computer or storage media
**[[Noosphere]] - the "sphere of human thought"
**[[Noosphere]] - the "sphere of human thought"
**[[Solipsism]] & [[Solipsism syndrome]] - a belief that the universe is entirely the creation of one's own mind
**[[Solipsism]] & [[Solipsism syndrome]] - a belief that the universe is entirely the creation of one's own mind
*[[Android]]s and [[Gynoid]]s
*[[Android]]s and [[Gynoid]]s <ref name="[[Doctor Who]]"/> <ref name="[[Star Trek]]"/> <ref name="[[Dragonball]]"/>
**[[Cyborg]]s <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
**[[Cyborg]]s
**[[Robot]]s and [[humanoid robot]]s
**[[Robot]]s and [[humanoid robot]]s <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
**[[Replicant]]s <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
**[[Replicant]]s
**[[Pleasure Unit|Sexbot]]s
**[[Pleasure Unit|Sexbot]]s
*Characters
*Characters
**The [[Absent-minded professor]] or [[Monomane]] & [[Eclecticism]]
**The [[Absent-minded professor]] or [[Monomane]] & [[Eclecticism]] <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
**The [[Detective]]
**The [[Detective]]
**The God-Like Alien
**The God-Like Alien
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**The Robot Servant
**The Robot Servant
**The [[Scientist]]
**The [[Scientist]]
***The [[Mad Scientist]] <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
***The [[Mad Scientist]]
***The Amoral Scientist
***The Amoral Scientist
***The Heroic Scientist
***The Heroic Scientist
***The Lame Amoral Scientist
***The Lame Amoral Scientist
**The [[Wedge Antilles|Wedge]]
**The [[Wedge Antilles|Wedge]]
*[[Cloning|Clone]]s <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
*[[Cloning|Clone]]s
*[[Extraterrestrial life]] (see [[Extraterrestrial life in culture]])
*[[Extraterrestrial life]] (see [[Extraterrestrial life in culture]]) <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
**[[Alien invasion]] <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
**[[Alien invasion]]
**[[Astrobiology]] <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
**[[Astrobiology]]
**[[Benevolent aliens]] <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
**[[Benevolent aliens]]
**[[First contact (science fiction)|First contact]]
**[[First contact (science fiction)|First contact]] <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
***Principles of non-interference (e.g. [[Prime Directive]])
***Principles of non-interference (e.g. [[Prime Directive]]) <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of time travelling stories"/>
*Living Planets
*Living Planets <ref name="[[Marvel Universe]]"/>
*[[Mutant (fictional)|Mutants]]
*[[Mutant (fictional)|Mutants]] <ref name="[[Marvel Universe]]"/>
*[[Shapeshifting|Shapeshifters]]
*[[Shapeshifting|Shapeshifters]] <ref name="[[Marvel Universe]]"/>
*[[Superhuman]]s <ref name="[[Marvel Universe]]"/> <ref name="[[DC Universe]]"/>
*[[Superhuman]]s
*[[Symbiont]]s
*[[Symbiont]]s <ref name="[[Men in Black]]"/>
*[[Biological uplift|Uplifted animals]] - using technology to "raise" non-human animals to human evolutionary levels
*[[Biological uplift|Uplifted animals]] - using technology to "raise" non-human animals to human evolutionary levels <ref name="[[The Island of Dr. Moreau]]"/>


==Body and mind alterations==
==Body and mind alterations==
*[[Bio-implant]]s <ref name="[[The Island of Dr. Moreau]]"/> <ref name="[[Marvel Universe]]"/>
*[[Bio-implant]]s
**[[Body modification]], including [[genetic modification]]
**[[Body modification]], including [[genetic modification]] <ref name="[[The Island of Dr. Moreau]]"/> <ref name="[[Marvel Universe]]"/>
**[[Bionics]] <ref name="[[Doctor Who]]"/> <ref name="[[Marvel Universe]]"/>
**[[Bionics]]
**[[Cybernetics]]
**[[Cybernetics]] <ref name="[[Doctor Who]]"/> <ref name="[[Marvel Universe]]"/>
*[[Intelligence amplification]]
*[[Intelligence amplification]] <ref name="[[Planet of the Spiders]]"/> <ref name="[[The Lawnmower Man]]"/>
*[[Invisibility]]
*[[Invisibility]] <ref name="[[The Face of Evil]]"/>
*[[Life extension]], [[Biological immortality]], Universal immortalism and [[immortality]]
*[[Life extension]], [[Biological immortality]], Universal immortalism and [[immortality]]
**[[Artificial organ]]s
**[[Artificial organ]]s
**[[Cloning]] <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
**[[Cloning]]
**[[Cryonics]]
**[[Cryonics]]
**[[Organlegging#The Organ Bank Problem|The Organ Bank Problem]] - a proposed problem in which the reduced death rate caused by [[organ transplant]]s would lead to a shortage of organs available for transplant
**[[Organlegging#The Organ Bank Problem|The Organ Bank Problem]] - a proposed problem in which the reduced death rate caused by [[organ transplant]]s would lead to a shortage of organs available for transplant
*Mind interfacing
*Mind interfacing
**Memory removal/editing
**Memory removal/editing
**[[Mind control]] <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
**[[Mind control]]
**[[Mind uploading]]
**[[Mind uploading]]
**Neural implants to directly interface with machinery
**Neural implants to directly interface with machinery
*[[Molecular manufacturing]] & [[Nanotechnology]] (nanomilitary, nanomaterials, nanoecology, nanomedicine, nanocomputing, nanospace, nanoenergy)
*[[Molecular manufacturing]] & [[Nanotechnology]] (nanomilitary, nanomaterials, nanoecology, nanomedicine, nanocomputing, nanospace, nanoenergy)
*[[Parapsychology|Psi powers and psychic phenomenon]]
*[[Parapsychology|Psi powers and psychic phenomenon]] <ref name="[[The Tomorrow People]]"/>
**[[Clairvoyance]]
**[[Clairvoyance]]
**[[Telepathy]]
**[[Telepathy]]
**[[Telekinesis]]
**[[Telekinesis]]
*[[Paradise engineering]]
*[[Paradise engineering]] <ref name="[[Forest of the Dead]]"/>
*[[Resizing (fiction)|Resizing]] (size-changing, miniaturization, magnification, shrinking, and enlargement)
*[[Resizing (fiction)|Resizing]] (size-changing, miniaturization, magnification, shrinking, and enlargement) <ref name="[[X-Men]]"/> <ref name="[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]"/>
*[[Shapeshifting]]
*[[Shapeshifting]] <ref name="[[X-Men]]"/> <ref name="[[Animorphs]]"/>
*[[Telepathy]]
*[[Telepathy]] <ref name="[[The Tomorrow People]]"/>
*[[Teleportation]]
*[[Teleportation]] <ref name="[[The Tomorrow People]]"/>


==Possible futures==
==Possible futures==
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==Political structures==
==Political structures==
{{Main|Political ideas in science fiction}}
{{Main|Political ideas in science fiction}}
*[[First contact (science fiction)|Alien Contact]]
*[[First contact (science fiction)|Alien Contact]] <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
*[[Anarchism]]
*[[Anarchism]]
*[[Anarcho-capitalism]] (see: [[Anarcho-capitalist literature]] and [[Libertarian science fiction]])
*[[Anarcho-capitalism]] (see: [[Anarcho-capitalist literature]] and [[Libertarian science fiction]])
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*[[Artificial intelligence]] <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
*[[Artificial intelligence]] <ref name="If you need a reference for this one, you must have only just heard of science fiction"/>
**[[von Neumann machine]]s
**[[von Neumann machine]]s
*[[Technological singularity|Singularity]]
*[[Technological singularity|Singularity]] <ref name="[[The War Machines]]"/> <ref name="[[DC Universe]]"/> <ref name="[[Marvel Universe]]"/>
*[[Star lifting]] & [[Stellar engineering]]
*[[Star lifting]] & [[Stellar engineering]]
*[[Megascale engineering]] & [[Planetary engineering]]
*[[Megascale engineering]] & [[Planetary engineering]]
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**Far advanced technology for the time.
**Far advanced technology for the time.
**Alien technology being found and used by humans. Most of the time for selfish purposes, or is being used incorrectly (not how it's supposed to work)
**Alien technology being found and used by humans. Most of the time for selfish purposes, or is being used incorrectly (not how it's supposed to work)
*[[Virtual reality]] and [[simulated reality]]
*[[Virtual reality]] <ref name="[[The Lawnmower Man]]"/> <ref name="[[Forest of the Dead]]"/>and [[simulated reality]]<ref name="[[Forest of the Dead]]"/>
*[[Weapons in science fiction|Weapons]]
*[[Weapons in science fiction|Weapons]] <ref name="[[Doctor Who]]"/> <ref name="[[Star Trek]]"/>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 07:39, 20 January 2009

The following is a list of recurring themes in science fiction. Please note this list also includes themes you'd also find in other genres.

Overarching themes

See also: Science fiction genre

Types of beings

Body and mind alterations

Possible futures

Political structures

Main article: Political ideas in science fiction
Main article: Libertarian science fiction

Habitats

Travel

Technologies

See also

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