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Science and science fiction have become inseparable--with common stories, interconnected thought experiments, and shared language. This reference book lays out that relationship and its all-but-magical terms and ideas. Those who think seriously about the future are changing the world, reshaping how we speak and how we think.
This book fully covers the terms that collected, clarified and crystallized the futurists' ideas, sometimes showing them off, sometimes slowing them down, and sometimes propelling them to fame and making them the common currency of our culture.
The many entries in this encyclopedic work offer a guided tour of the vast territories occupied by science fiction and futurism. In his Foreword, David Brin says, "Provocative and enticing? Filled with 'huh!' moments and leads to great stories? That describes this volume."
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments deletexi
Foreword by David Brin
Key and Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Terms of Science and Its Fictions
Alter Ego
Anachronism
Artificial Intelligence
Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics
Atomics
Bad Code
BEM (Bug-Eyed Monster)
Big Dumb Objects
Bobble
Chronotransference
Clarke's Laws
Corpsicle
Cosmogony of the Future
Cryonics
Cyberspace
Death Ray
Deep Blue
Doomsday Machine
Fermis
First Contact
Frankenstein Complex
Gas Giant
Goldilocks Planet
"He's dead, Jim."
Internet of Things
Ion Drive
Juno Spacecraft
Kludge
MacGyver
Metalaw
Multiplex Parenting
Mutant
Nanotechnology
Neural Lace
Pellegrino, Powell and
Asimov's Three Laws of Alien Behavior
Positronic Brain
Railgun
Realtime
Robot
Robotics
SETI
Solar Sail
Solo Parenting
Stepford Wives
Teleportation
Time Bunny
Time Machine
Timequake
Timeskip
Timeslip
Uncanny Valley
Uplift
Uterine Replicator
Utility Fog
Wolfling
Part Two: Genre Terms
Alternate (or Alternative)
History
Archetype
Cassandras
Fantasy
Faust
Fictions of Nuclear Disaster
Fixup
Hard SF
Lost Colony
Lost World Story
Monomyth
Proto-Science Fiction
Rim World
Ruritania
Science Fantasy
Science Fiction
Scientific Romance
Sci-Fi
Separable Soul
Speculative Fiction
Speculative History
Speculative Nonfiction
Technothriller
Works Cited
Index
