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Biology appears in fiction, especially but not only in science fiction, both in the shape of real aspects of the science, used as themes or plot devices, and in the form of fictional elements, whether fictional extensions or applications of biological theory, or through the invention of fictional organisms.
Feb 24, 2024 · Speculative biology is a science-fiction genre that explores possible life forms of the past and future—if you’ve ever seen illustrations of hypothetical life forms from the early days of Planet Earth, or read about how humans might evolve over millions of years of spaceflight, you’re already familiar with a bit of speculative biology ...
Science fiction (SIGH-innss FICK-shun) is a type of literature that deals with inventive technologies, futurism, space travel and exploration, and other science-based components.
- Zones of Thought Series. By Vernor Vinge. Years into the future humans are no longer the only creatures living in a universe where one's mind's potential is solely determined by its location in space.
- Sprawl Trilogy. By William Gibson. The Sprawl Trilogy consist of 3 books following the adventures of a data-thief who goes by the name of Case.
- The Dune Chronicles. By Frank Herbert. The Dune Chronicles is a 8 book science fiction series dream. Set on a desert plant known as Arrakis, Paul Atreides – a boy who would later be called Muad'Dib – has his mind set on bring the family's dream to reality.
- The Heechee Saga. By Frederik Pohl. Gateway is what started it all. it opened on all the wealth of the Universe and unleashed horrors unimaginable to most.
- Semiosis (Semiosis, #1) by Sue Burke (Goodreads Author)
- Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) by Michael Crichton.
- Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)
- Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) by Jeff VanderMeer (Goodreads Author)
Oct 14, 2024 · Science fiction is a form of fiction that deals principally with the impact of actual or imagined science upon society or individuals. The term ‘science fiction’ was popularized, if not invented, in the 1920s by one of the genre’s principal advocates, the American publisher Hugo Gernsback.
Oct 2, 2014 · While some have seen extrapolation and speculation as opposites, others have seen them as sequential stages in an imaginative process, and still others have used the terms interchangeably, the distinctions between them blurred by differing conceptions of plausibility and of science.
