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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Science fiction.
See also pages that link to Science fiction or to this page.

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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 about the physical world derived from the activities 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

Sub genres

Major figures and seminal works

Precursors

Pioneers

Innovators

  • John W. Campbell [r]: Editor of Astounding Science Fiction, later Analog, from September, 1937, until his death in 1971, perhaps the seminal figure in the field. [e]
  • George Lucas [r]: American film director and movie-technique pioneer. Creator of the Star Wars story and universe. [e]
  • Gene Roddenberry [r]: American producer and author best remembered as the creator of the Star Trek television series and its universe. [e]
  • Steven Spielberg [r]: Academy Award-winning American film producer and director known for his work across many genres. [e]

Influential authors

Seminal works of science fiction

Film

Literature

  • The Cold Equations [r]: A 1954 short story by Tom Godwin famous for its tragic conclusion in which the unrelenting demands of engineering formulae are unable to be overcome to provide the standard upbeat ending of that era's pulp fiction. [e]
  • You Will Go to the Moon [r]: Speculative 1959 preschool children's book tracing a manned spaceflight from the earth to a space station and eventually to the moon. [e]

Radio

Television

  • Doctor Who [r]: British science-fiction television series which ran from 1963 to 1989 on the BBC, followed by a 1996 television movie; relaunched in 2005. [e]
  • Flash Gordon [r]: A long running series of comic strips as well as radio, movies television stories concerning the science fiction adventures of a heroic polo-playing Yale graduate transplanted from 20th century earth to a Space opera setting of interplanetary warlords and alien creatures. [e]
  • Star Trek [r]: Popular American science fiction television series, created by Gene Roddenberry. The original series was short-lived but gained an enormous cult following and helped bring sci-fi further into the main stream. Star Trek spawned an entire fictional universe, films, other series and an extremely successful business enterprise. It launched the careers of many actors and paved the way for even more successful space fiction such as Star Wars. [e]
  • War of the Worlds [r]: Add brief definition or description

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