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Revision as of 22:37, 18 September 2009
Parent topics
- Science fiction [r]: A story-telling genre that presents alternatives to what is currently considered scientifically possible or that extrapolates from present-day knowledge. [e]
- Alternate history [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Science fiction
- 1984 (novel) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Blade Runner [r]: 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, set in an imagined Los Angeles of 2019. [e]
- Brave New World [r]: Dystopic novel written by British author Aldous Huxley in 1931 describing a totalitarian society based on eugenics. [e]
- Childhood's End [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Farnham's Freehold [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Harrison Bergeron [r]: A short story about a dystopic future in which a government official, the Handicapper General, prevents anyone from using abilities superior to that of the human average [e]
- If This Goes On [r]: Add brief definition or description
- The Time Machine [r]: An 1895 science-fiction novella by H. G. Wells in which a Time Traveller visits the far distant future and describes the human society of that day. [e]
- When the Machine Stops [r]: Add brief definition or description
Political
- Atlas Shrugged [r]: Novel by Ayn Rand. [e]
- Fatherland (novel) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- It Can't Happen Here [r]: Add brief definition or description
- SS-GB [r]: Add brief definition or description
Related topics
- Deception [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Failed state [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Moral panic [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Newspeak [r]: A fictional variant of the English language, from George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. [e]
- Civil society [r]: The space for social activity outside the market, state and household; the arena of uncoerced collective action around shared interests, purposes and values. [e]
- Utopia [r]: The name of a fictional society created by Sir Thomas More as a satire on his own, European, society; by extension, it has come to represent all ideal societies, real or imagined. [e]