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- Absolute Monarchy: A monarchy where the ruler has complete authority and power. Example: In Sarah J. Maas’s “Throne of Glass” series the continent of Erilea is home to several kingdoms, one of which is Adarlan, ruled by a powerful and authoritative monarch.
- Constitutional Monarchy: A monarchy with defined limits on the monarch’s power set out in law or constitution. Example: In The Ascendance book series by Jennifer A. Nielsen, the kingdom of Carthya is a constitutional monarchy, where the king and the queen share power with a council of regents, who represent the different regions of the kingdom.
- Feudal Monarchy: A monarchy where the king or queen is the supreme ruler, but they delegate some of their authority to lesser nobles. Example: In The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.
- Magical Monarchy: A monarchy where magic abilities give rulers the divine right to govern. Example: In the Inheritance Cycle series by Christopher Paolini, the nation of the elves is called Du Weldenvarden and is ruled by Queen Islanzadí.
- Alien Species/Worlds
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- Some Subgenres
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Alien Invasion: Beings from space come to Earth to conquer. See also: TV Tropes.BEM: Abbreviation for bug-eyed monster, or an extra-terrestrial monster with bulging eyes. See also: SFE.First Contact: The first meeting between two different intelligent species. See also: TV Tropes. SFE.Eugenics: The modification and concentration of supposedly desirable human traits (and eliminations of supposedly undesirable ones) by selective breeding programs and/or the sterilization of the “u...First Man / Last Man: Narratives in which we see the beginning of a new human race, or the end of the human race. TV Tropes.Ansible: An instantaneous communication device, not limited by the speed of light. See also: TV Tropes. SFE.Babel Fish: A living fish which, when placed in your ear, will live there and translate any form of language for you. See also: TV Tropes.Cryogenics: The science of low temperatures (originally the science of creating low temperatures). See also: TV Tropes. SFE.Arthur C. Clarke’s Laws: 1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very proba...Afrofuturism: A form of science fiction that uses Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Magic Realism to examine black culture. See also: TV Tropes.Alternate History/Alt-History: A subgenre of science fiction wherein at least one aspect of history is different from that of our own world; the setting of such stories. See also: TV Tropes. SFE.Anime: a Japanese animated film or television program, drawn in a meticulously detailed style, usually featuring characters with distinctive large, staring eyes, and typically having a science-fict...Area 51: A United States Air Force base in Nevada, the existence of which was not formally acknowledged by the US Government until 1995. See also: TV Tropes.Oct 9, 2020 · Resurrecting Gernsback’s awkward term is unrealistic, but the problem of competing “value-laden” terminology adds to the difficulties of genre classification. Discovering a popular definition of science fiction is a way of clarifying the real values of the genre as it is understood by a general audience.
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Kristi Giselsson, David Guez
- 2020
Feb 25, 2021 · Abstract. Storytelling is a central concern of documentary graphic narratives. This chapter discusses narrative framing strategies in the selected works: for instance, how stories are told and contextualized, for instance, through comments and/or contradicting accounts, shapes the comprehension of the represented events.
- Johannes C. P. Schmid
- Johannes.Schmid@uni-flensburg.de
- 2021
Jan 1, 2015 · used in science fiction and futures studies is followed by a pair of cases studies focused on two. worldbuilding projects, one for the fictional world of Rilao and the other for the storyworld cr ...
Sep 6, 2017 · Science fiction is a cultural response to the revolutions in science and technology during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. These altered the existing methods of industry and production, understandings of the universe and ourselves, and concepts of time and history. All of this offered new opportunities for storytelling.
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Oct 10, 1996 · Abstract. This book examines the complex and varied ways in which fictions relate to the real world, and offers a precise account of how imaginative works of literature can use fictional content to explore matters of universal human interest. While rejecting the traditional view that literature is important for the truths that it imparts, the ...
