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    • contains Antiquity to Renaissance
      Dark age & co.
      • is_parent Timaeus ·
        Cosmos as a living being — created by a divine craftsman (*Demiurge*). Blending of ΜΥΘΟΣ and ΛΟΓΟΣ: a “likely story” (*eikôs muthos*) explaining the universe.
      • is_parent Apocalypse of John of Patmos ·
        Combines Jewish apocalyptic motifs with Greco-Roman symbolism — the empire recast as beast-machine. Cosmic imaginery: stars fall, beasts rise, heavens open. My
      • is_parent The True History ·
        Lucian of Samostata, 2nd century AD. Often called the first science-fiction narrative — a voyage beyond Earth. Begins with a confession of lying; uses hu
      • is_parent Divina Comedia ·
        A structured journey through the cosmos — from infernal depth to celestial infinity. Maps medieval cosmology with mathematical precision: concentric sphe
      • is_parent Exercise ·
        Think about the superpower You declared last week that You want to have. It's year 2070 and You fully developed it and use it. Your grand-children and/or studen
      • is_parent Artefact of the day: SAMPO
        the Sampo — a mysterious artifact forged by the smith-god Ilmarinen, source of endless abundance. Sampo's nature is never fully defined — part mill, part cosmi
        • is_parent Invention of the day: Logic Mill 🔒 ·
          In Charles Babbage's "Analytical Engine", the “mill” performed operations on numbers (addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc.), while the &ldquo
    • contains Renaissance to 19th century 🔊
      Destination 1: The Moon
      • is_parent Somnium ·
        A witchcraft invocation within a book within a dream — nested speculation. Journey to the Moon seen through "Demon's" eyes. Somnium manuscript leaked: Kep
      • is_parent Gulliver’s Travels ·
        A voyage through impossible worlds to expose human absurdity. Each land a mirror — scale, reason, and custom turned upside down. Laputa’s scientists
      • is_parent Micromégas ·
        A cosmic satire on scale, knowledge, and human vanity. Blends Enlightenment rationalism with speculative cosmology. Micromégas — a giant from Siriu
      • is_parent The Man in the Moone
        One of the earliest space-travel tales in English literature. Domingo Gonsales reaches the Moon using trained geese. Describes lunar inhabitants and societies w
        • is_parent The Engine 🔒 ·
          "Having fastened about a dozen of my strongest Gansas unto a kinde of Engine I had framed, after they had raised me from the ground, they continued soaring upwa
      • is_parent L’An 2440 ·
        An Enlightenment dream of Paris six centuries in the future. Imagines social reform through reason, education, and moral progress. First modern utopia set in a
      • is_parent Activation ·
        Think about different means how You could put / get Your self on the surface of the moon.
    • contains 19th century
      FrankensteinThe SandmannErewhonParis in the 20th centuryThe Time Machine
      • is_parent Frankenstein
        The first modern myth of artificial life — creation without divine sanction. Victor Frankenstein as Promethean scientist: knowledge becomes transgression.
        • is_parent Feminist perspective 🔒 ·
          A creation myth rewritten by a woman.Victor’s experiment replaces the womb — science as patriarchal fantasy of self-generation.Creation becomes male and mechan
      • is_parent The Sandmann
        A tale of obsession, optics, and automata. Nathanael’s fear of the Sandman merges with fascination for the mechanical doll Olympia. Freud’s “Das Unheimliche” (
      • is_parent Erewhon
        A utopian satire where everything familiar is reversed — “Erewhon” as “Nowhere” spelled almost backward. Illness is treated as cri
        • is_parent Book of Machines 🔒 ·
          Blurs Darwin and technology: Machines evolve — not by design, but by use and adaptation.Humans are merely the reproductive organs of machines.Consciousness may
      • is_parent Paris in the 20th century
        Verne's dystopian vision of Paris in 1960 — ruled by finance, speed, and machinery. Young Michel Dufrénoy, a poet, wanders through a cold, electric
        • is_parent quelques inventions, peut-etre ? 🔒 ·
          electric cars, gasoline-powered engines, high-speed trains, glass and steel skyscrapers, underground subways, air conditioning, elevators, automated security sy
      • is_parent The Time Machine
        Set in A.D. 802,701 — humanity evolved into two species: Eloi and Morlocks. Eloi — gentle, idle descendants of the bourgeoisie, living above ground.
        • is_parent The last sentence 🔒 ·
          And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind and streng
      • is_parent Artefact of the day: The Golem 🔒
        In Jewish folklore, גֹלֶם is an artificial antomorphic being shaped from clay and animated by the sacred שֵׁם.
        • is_parent Ingression of the day: The Marble 🔒 ·
          "The Marble" is a spherical energy & information storage medium (= "the ghost") whose insertion into the body activates the body (= "the shell") of the AI syst
    • contains Dystopias and Utopias 🔊
      1984Brave New WorldIslandGlasperlenspielHandmaid's Tale
      • is_parent George Orwell (1903-1950)
        George Orwell / Eric Arthur Blair born in British India, grew up in England, from 1922–1927 served in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma (Myanmar),
        • is_parent 1984 (1948) 🔒
          Nineteen Eighty-Four depicts a totalitarian state where the Party controls reality itself through surveillance, propaganda, and engineered language. Oceania, E
          • is_parent Ingression of the day: Newspeak 🔒 ·
            новояз ("novy jazyk" - "new tongue") refers to the systematic substitution of euphemisms by Russian state media and officials to shape public perception, obscur
      • is_parent Margaret Atwood (1939)
        Margaret Atwood is a Canadian novelist, poet, and critic whose work blends fiction, feminism, ecology, and political satire. She prefers the term “speculative
        • is_parent Handmaid's Tale (1985) 🔒
          The story when εὐαγγέλιον got seriously wrong, again.
        • is_parent did anyone expect ... 🔒 ·
          the Spanish Inquisition ???
        • is_parent Gilead 🔒 ·
          Gilead is a totalitarian theonomocracy built on fear, infertility, rigid control and necrotic inversion of Eros / Libido. After environmental collapse and decli
      • is_parent Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
        one of the most important anglosaxxon intellectuals of 1st half of 20th century first schooling by his own mother Julia (departure letter: "Judge not too much
        • is_parent Brave New World (1932) 🔒 ·
          BNW: biologically and psychologically engineered society built on stability, consumption & "happiness". Humans are mass-produced and conditioned from infancy.
        • is_parent Island (1962) 🔒 ·
          Island Pala is a psycho-spiritual utopia blending Buddhist mindfulness, Western science & ecological balance. Education as core institution: cultivating awaren
      • is_parent The Game with Glass Beads (1948) ·
        nihil adeo necesse est ante hominum oculos proponere ut certas quasdam res, quas esse neque demonstrari neque probari potest, quae contra eo ipso, quod pii dili
      • is_parent H.G.Wells (1866 - 1846) 🔒
        asides Shelley, Verne and Gernsback considered to be one of 19th parents of "science-fiction" genre a “social scientist in fiction”: stories as thought experim
        • is_parent Five Principles of Liberty 🔒 ·
          Listed in Wells' Utopia "Men like Gods" (1923) as follows: privacy free movement unlimited knowledge truthfulness free discussion
      • is_parent Huxley's quote on Illusion and Reality 🔒 ·
        ... The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion that we must take seriously, because it is as real as it goes, and in those aspects of reality which we are
      • is_parent Мы (1921) 🔒 ·
        Anyone willing to refer at the Congress about the "mother of dystopias", the novel "We" by a Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin ?
    • contains Birth of a robot 🔊
      R.U.R. Metropolis Astounding Stories(Asimov's) Laws of RoboticsR. Daneel Olivaw
      • is_parent Maschinenmensch
        The Maschinenmensch is a unique android created by the scientist Rotwang, born from his obsession with resurrecting his lost love. On Joh Fredersen’s orders, t
      • is_parent Astounding Stories ·
        Astounding Stories
      • is_parent R. Daneel Olivaw 🔒
        activated on Aurora 4920 AD / 2950 AE as first humanoid / humaniform ever constructed partnered with Elijah Baley on Earth: catalyst for interworld understandi
        • is_parent Central problem of roboethics 🔒
          Trevize frowned. "How do you decide what is injurious, or not injurious, to humanity as a whole?" "Precisely, sir," said Daneel. "In theory, the Zeroth Law was
          • is_parent Moral & Method 🔒 ·
            In Foundation, the Minimalist Program is the method and the Zeroth Law is the ethical justification: both permit limited, often invisible harm or manipulation
          • is_parent Moral & Method 🔒 ·
            In Foundation, the Minimalist Program is the method and the Zeroth Law is the ethical justification: both permit limited, often invisible harm or manipulation
      • is_parent Three Laws of Robotics 🔒
        1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings exc
        • is_parent Zeroth Law 🔒 ·
          A robot may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
      • is_parent AOTD: Positronic brain 🔒
        Today's "artefact of the day" (AOTS) is the "positronic brain": PB is Asimov’s fictional model of an artificial mind: a dense lattice of positronic pathwa
        • is_parent Ingression of the day: VPU 🔒
          Voluminous Processing Unit (VPU) is a three-dimensional electrophotonic information-processing lattice. Constrained only by most fundamental physical limits (s
          • is_parent for Star Trek fans 🔒 ·
            "We are the Borg . Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adap
      • is_parent Humanoid precursors 🔒 ·
        robots of the yellow emperor Solomon's "servants of brass" / "djinn bound into metal forms" Pygmalion the mechanical maid the talking head of Sylvester II (&ldq
      • is_parent Three factions 🔒 ·
        Shaper or a Mechanist ? Or a Preservationist, maybe ?
      • is_parent From 'labor' to 'robot' 🔒
        During their summers in spa house "Poniatowski" in Trenčianske Teplice (Slovakia), Karel Čapek worked on a new play featuring artificial beings. Unsatisfied wi
      • is_parent Tears in rain 🔒
        "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
      • is_parent Final quote 🔒 ·
        GPT5.1 response to request to provide an end quote for this session:Alquist’s final realization (near the ending)“Life will not perish! Life begins
      • is_parent for Star Trek fans 🔒 ·
        "We are the Borg . Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adap
    • contains Space Odyssey(s) 🔊
      Space opera: epic destiny, cosmic technology, and the quiet suspicion that none of this was strictly necessary.
      • is_parent Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (1917 - 2008) ·
        Geostationary satellites. O'Neill cylinders. Space elevators. AIs embedded in black monoliths. Stargates. Ga-Lactic intelligence.
      • is_parent Vonnegut, Adams, Futurama & co. ·
        “I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”(quote from Kurt Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titan")
      • is_parent Zones of Thought 🔒 ·
        Vernor Vinge (1944-2024): Mathematician–SF author who reshaped how we imagine posthuman futures. Popularized the Technological Singularity: intelligence g
      • is_parent 'The Culture' series (Iain Banks) 🔒 ·
        Culture: post-scarcity civilization with no money, no states, no coercion.Freedom is radical: bodies, gender, lifespan, identity are mutable.Humans coexist wit
    • contains The New Wave
      The New Wave (mid-1960s to late 1970s) was a literary movement that rejected Golden Age rationalism in favor of experimentation, psychology, and stylistic innov
      • is_parent Context & Precursors 🔒 ·
        **1950s–60s counterculture:** rise of youth rebellion, anti-establishment politics, and experimentation with altered consciousness. **LSD (discovered 1943, pop
      • is_parent Dangerous Visions 🔒 ·
        "Dangeours Visions" is a title of short-fiction anthology published in 1967. Edited by Harlan Ellison, DV assembled 33 brand-new stories — many pushing bo
      • is_parent Harlan Ellisson (1934-2018) 🔒 ·
        "Sci-Fi's Most Controversial Figure" bipolar disorder quite decorated: 8 Hugo Awards, 4 Nebula Awards, 5 Bram Stoker Awards, SFWA Grand Master anthologies: Dang
      • is_parent Occupation: Conscience 🔒 ·
        "My work is foursquare for chaos. I spend my life personally, and my work professionally, keeping the soup boiling. Gadfly is what they call you when you are no
    • contains Mythologies of the future 🔊
      DuneStar WarsFoundationCantos Hyperion
      • is_parent Dune 🔊
        "A world is supported by four things . . . the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all
        • is_parent House Atreides ·
          “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.I will face my fear.I will permit it to pass over me and thr
        • is_parent IOTD: Dysgenics ·
          "Russia is genetically an authoritarian power.    Russia’s authoritarianism was not imposed from above but is the result of our history which ha
        • is_parent Actors & Concepts ·
          Concepts: Butlerian Jihad, Orange-Catholic Bible, Great Convention, Planetary Ecology, Zen-Sunni religion, Mentat, Prescience, Golden Path, Spice ... Actors: A
        • is_parent Bene Gesserit ·
          Truthsaying, The Voice, Prana - Bindu, Internal Organic-Chemical Control, Fertility Control, Genetic Memory
        • is_parent Lordyňa Leto III Atreides, the God(dess) Emperor of Dune ·
          What form would You adopt in order to guarantee millennia of peace for trillions of beings ?
      • is_parent Star Wars
        Campbell's monomyth + Holywood = Star Wars
        • is_parent The Fall of Anakin ·
          At the beginning, neither Anakin (nor Saruman, for that matter) could imagine betraying their ideals; yet attachment— to control and to their projected images
      • is_parent Cantos Hyperion 🔊
        Hyperion is The Canterbury Tales rewritten through Homer, the Bible, Greek myth, and modern science fiction — each pilgrim carrying one archetype of humanity t
        • is_parent 7 pilgrims, 7 archetypes 🔒 ·
          Martin Silenus (The Poet) — Homer archetype: epic-maker, obscene bard, immortality via art. Paul Duré (The Priest) — Teilhard de Chardin arch
        • is_parent IOTD: The Technocore 🔒
          In Cantos Hyperion, The Technocore is composed of following components: Stables — conservative AIs, understanding the importance of Humanity and organic L
          • is_parent Ummon says ... 🔒 ·
            Our UI spans galaxies uses quasars for energy sources the way you might have a light snackOur UI sees everything that is and was and will be and tells us selec
        • is_parent Illium & Olympus 🔒 ·
          Dan Simmons (b. 1947) is one of science fiction’s great masters of intertextuality.Following the four-book Hyperion Cantos (Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, End
        • is_parent Hegemony 🔒
          In the Hyperion Cantos, the Hegemony is a human interstellar civilization of roughly 250–300 worlds, bound together by the Hegira—humanity’s mass migration fro
          • is_parent Questio: The common framework 🔒 ·
            What does "Republic" in Star Wars, as well as "Empires" of  Dune and Foundation have in common with the "Hegemony" ?
        • contains Cyberpunk, solarpunk and other punkz
          • is_parent Neuromancer
            💧 Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson is the novel that defined cyberpunk. Set in a near-future global sprawl, it follows Case, a washed-up hacker navigating
            • is_parent Cyberspace 🔒 ·
              "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
            • is_parent Cyberspace 🔒 ·
              "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
          • is_parent Schismatrix
            💧 Schismatrix (1985) by Bruce Sterling is a foundational cyberpunk / post-cyberpunk novel set several centuries in the future, after humanity has spread throug
            • is_parent Shapers 🔒 ·
              💧 Shapers – humans who use genetic engineering, psychological conditioning, and biological optimization to evolve the human body and mind. They value adaptabili
            • is_parent Mechanists 🔒 ·
              💧 Mechanists – humans who embrace cybernetic implants, mechanical augmentation, and life-extension via machinery, favoring stability, durability, and engineered
            • is_parent Shapers 🔒 ·
              💧 Shapers – humans who use genetic engineering, psychological conditioning, and biological optimization to evolve the human body and mind. They value adaptabili
            • is_parent Mechanists 🔒 ·
              💧 Mechanists – humans who embrace cybernetic implants, mechanical augmentation, and life-extension via machinery, favoring stability, durability, and engineered
          • is_parent Baroquepunk, Steampunk & co. ·
            Baroquepunk is a speculative genre where ornament, excess, and early-modern worldviews collide with systems thinking. Inspired by Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, it
          • is_parent Solarpunk ·
            💧 Solarpunk is a speculative genre and cultural movement imagining desirable futures built on renewable energy, ecological repair, and social justice. Rooted i
          • is_parent Afrofuturism 🔒 ·
            💧 Afrofuturism is a cultural and speculative framework that reimagines the past, present, and future through African and African-diasporic perspectives, blendin
          • is_parent Nanopunk 🔒 ·
            💧 Nanopunk is a speculative genre in which nanotechnology replaces industry, infrastructure, and scarcity itself, reorganizing society around control of matter
          • is_parent Berlinpunk 🔒
            Imagine Berlin in 2300 / AE330. Is it still a city or did it turn into desert ? Or jungle ? Is UdK still planning to relocate to Tempelhof ? Do foxes still roa
            • is_parent Fazit 🔒 ·
              If cyberpunk says “the future is desperate and broken” (berlin|solar)punk insists “the future is enjoyable, repairable—and worth designing together”.P.S. pleas
            • is_parent Fazit 🔒 ·
              If cyberpunk says “the future is desperate and broken” (berlin|solar)punk insists “the future is enjoyable, repairable—and worth designing together”.P.S. pleas
          • is_parent Metaverse 🔒 ·
            "So Hiro's not actually here at all. He's in a computer-generated universe that his computer is drawing onto his goggles and pumping into his earphones. In the
          • is_parent Neuromancer
            💧 Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson is the novel that defined cyberpunk. Set in a near-future global sprawl, it follows Case, a washed-up hacker navigating
            • is_parent Cyberspace 🔒 ·
              "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
            • is_parent Cyberspace 🔒 ·
              "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
          • is_parent Schismatrix
            💧 Schismatrix (1985) by Bruce Sterling is a foundational cyberpunk / post-cyberpunk novel set several centuries in the future, after humanity has spread throug
            • is_parent Shapers 🔒 ·
              💧 Shapers – humans who use genetic engineering, psychological conditioning, and biological optimization to evolve the human body and mind. They value adaptabili
            • is_parent Mechanists 🔒 ·
              💧 Mechanists – humans who embrace cybernetic implants, mechanical augmentation, and life-extension via machinery, favoring stability, durability, and engineered
            • is_parent Shapers 🔒 ·
              💧 Shapers – humans who use genetic engineering, psychological conditioning, and biological optimization to evolve the human body and mind. They value adaptabili
            • is_parent Mechanists 🔒 ·
              💧 Mechanists – humans who embrace cybernetic implants, mechanical augmentation, and life-extension via machinery, favoring stability, durability, and engineered
          • is_parent Baroquepunk, Steampunk & co. ·
            Baroquepunk is a speculative genre where ornament, excess, and early-modern worldviews collide with systems thinking. Inspired by Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, it
          • is_parent Solarpunk ·
            💧 Solarpunk is a speculative genre and cultural movement imagining desirable futures built on renewable energy, ecological repair, and social justice. Rooted i
          • is_parent Afrofuturism 🔒 ·
            💧 Afrofuturism is a cultural and speculative framework that reimagines the past, present, and future through African and African-diasporic perspectives, blendin
          • is_parent Nanopunk 🔒 ·
            💧 Nanopunk is a speculative genre in which nanotechnology replaces industry, infrastructure, and scarcity itself, reorganizing society around control of matter
          • is_parent Berlinpunk 🔒
            Imagine Berlin in 2300 / AE330. Is it still a city or did it turn into desert ? Or jungle ? Is UdK still planning to relocate to Tempelhof ? Do foxes still roa
            • is_parent Fazit 🔒 ·
              If cyberpunk says “the future is desperate and broken” (berlin|solar)punk insists “the future is enjoyable, repairable—and worth designing together”.P.S. pleas
            • is_parent Fazit 🔒 ·
              If cyberpunk says “the future is desperate and broken” (berlin|solar)punk insists “the future is enjoyable, repairable—and worth designing together”.P.S. pleas
          • is_parent Metaverse 🔒 ·
            "So Hiro's not actually here at all. He's in a computer-generated universe that his computer is drawing onto his goggles and pumping into his earphones. In the
      • is_parent Foundation 🔊
        The wicked problem: How to minimize harm caused by a dying Empire ?
        • is_parent Central problem of roboethics 🔒
          Trevize frowned. "How do you decide what is injurious, or not injurious, to humanity as a whole?" "Precisely, sir," said Daneel. "In theory, the Zeroth Law was
          • is_parent Moral & Method 🔒 ·
            In Foundation, the Minimalist Program is the method and the Zeroth Law is the ethical justification: both permit limited, often invisible harm or manipulation
          • is_parent Moral & Method 🔒 ·
            In Foundation, the Minimalist Program is the method and the Zeroth Law is the ethical justification: both permit limited, often invisible harm or manipulation
        • is_parent The minimalist program 🔒 ·
          Asimov-Seldon's Plan unfolds as follows: establish one Foundation at the outskirts of the known Universe (Terminus) 1st Foundation 's Power base: trade, engine
    • contains She and He
      Ursula leGuinNeal Stephenson
      • is_parent Neal Stephenson ·
        SnowcrashDiamond AgeCryptonomiconBaroque CycleAnathem
      • is_parent Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929 - 2018) 🔊
        daughter of Alfred Louis Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber spent her childhood in highly stimulating environment (community of Berkeley anthropologists) married hist
        • is_parent The last Ishi 🔒 ·
          Ishi (c. 1861 – March 25, 1916) was the last known member of the Native American Yahi people from the present-day state of California in the United
        • is_parent Earthsea cycle 🔒 ·
          Collection of six "high fantasy" books taking place on the world of Earthsea : a vast archipelago of hundreds of islands surrounded by mostly uncharted ocean.
        • is_parent Hainish cycle 🔒
          Hainish cycle is set in a future history that features civilizations of human beings on planets orbiting a number of nearby stars, including Terra ("Earth"); t
          • is_parent Archetypes: Observers & Messengers 🔒 ·
            LeGuin's most favorite archetypes are those of "Observers" / "Messengers" / "Bridge-Builders-Between-Worlds". According to their code-of-conduct, emissaries sh
          • is_parent Left hand of Darkness (1969) 🔒 ·
            Hainish novel set on Gethen (Winter), where humans undergo 24-day "somer" (ambisexual) and 2-day "kemmer" (male or female; fertility and receptiveness) cycles.
          • is_parent The Dispossessed (1974) 🔒 ·
            Paired worlds: Anarres (anarchist, austere) and Urras (capitalist, lush) — one origin, two social experiments.Physicist Shevek leaves Anarres to complete a the
          • is_parent Ekumen 🔒 ·
            The Ekumen is a loose confederation of cca 83 human worlds in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish cycle. It is not an empire but a network for communication, exch
          • is_parent The word for world is forest (1972) 🔒 ·
            Referat.
        • is_parent Archetypes: Observers & Messengers 🔒 ·
          LeGuin's most favorite archetypes are those of "Observers" / "Messengers" / "Bridge-Builders-Between-Worlds". According to their code-of-conduct, emissaries sh
        • is_parent Left hand of Darkness (1969) 🔒 ·
          Hainish novel set on Gethen (Winter), where humans undergo 24-day "somer" (ambisexual) and 2-day "kemmer" (male or female; fertility and receptiveness) cycles.
        • is_parent The Dispossessed (1974) 🔒 ·
          Paired worlds: Anarres (anarchist, austere) and Urras (capitalist, lush) — one origin, two social experiments.Physicist Shevek leaves Anarres to complete a the
        • is_parent Ekumen 🔒 ·
          The Ekumen is a loose confederation of cca 83 human worlds in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish cycle. It is not an empire but a network for communication, exch
        • is_parent The word for world is forest (1972) 🔒 ·
          Referat.
        • is_parent Questio 🔒 ·
          Is the planet on which Earthsea cycle stories unfold part of the Ekumen/Hain universe ?
        • is_parent The Telling (2000) 🔒 ·
          We'll spend great deal of next summer-semester analyzing this book.
        • is_parent 🎄 merry Christmas, dear colleagues !🎄 🔒 ·
          "Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust… In a good season one trusts life; in a bad season one only hopes. But they are of the same essence… Without
    • contains Cyberpunk, solarpunk and other punkz
      • is_parent Neuromancer
        💧 Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson is the novel that defined cyberpunk. Set in a near-future global sprawl, it follows Case, a washed-up hacker navigating
        • is_parent Cyberspace 🔒 ·
          "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
        • is_parent Cyberspace 🔒 ·
          "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
      • is_parent Schismatrix
        💧 Schismatrix (1985) by Bruce Sterling is a foundational cyberpunk / post-cyberpunk novel set several centuries in the future, after humanity has spread throug
        • is_parent Shapers 🔒 ·
          💧 Shapers – humans who use genetic engineering, psychological conditioning, and biological optimization to evolve the human body and mind. They value adaptabili
        • is_parent Mechanists 🔒 ·
          💧 Mechanists – humans who embrace cybernetic implants, mechanical augmentation, and life-extension via machinery, favoring stability, durability, and engineered
        • is_parent Shapers 🔒 ·
          💧 Shapers – humans who use genetic engineering, psychological conditioning, and biological optimization to evolve the human body and mind. They value adaptabili
        • is_parent Mechanists 🔒 ·
          💧 Mechanists – humans who embrace cybernetic implants, mechanical augmentation, and life-extension via machinery, favoring stability, durability, and engineered
      • is_parent Baroquepunk, Steampunk & co. ·
        Baroquepunk is a speculative genre where ornament, excess, and early-modern worldviews collide with systems thinking. Inspired by Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, it
      • is_parent Solarpunk ·
        💧 Solarpunk is a speculative genre and cultural movement imagining desirable futures built on renewable energy, ecological repair, and social justice. Rooted i
      • is_parent Afrofuturism 🔒 ·
        💧 Afrofuturism is a cultural and speculative framework that reimagines the past, present, and future through African and African-diasporic perspectives, blendin
      • is_parent Nanopunk 🔒 ·
        💧 Nanopunk is a speculative genre in which nanotechnology replaces industry, infrastructure, and scarcity itself, reorganizing society around control of matter
      • is_parent Berlinpunk 🔒
        Imagine Berlin in 2300 / AE330. Is it still a city or did it turn into desert ? Or jungle ? Is UdK still planning to relocate to Tempelhof ? Do foxes still roa
        • is_parent Fazit 🔒 ·
          If cyberpunk says “the future is desperate and broken” (berlin|solar)punk insists “the future is enjoyable, repairable—and worth designing together”.P.S. pleas
        • is_parent Fazit 🔒 ·
          If cyberpunk says “the future is desperate and broken” (berlin|solar)punk insists “the future is enjoyable, repairable—and worth designing together”.P.S. pleas
      • is_parent Metaverse 🔒 ·
        "So Hiro's not actually here at all. He's in a computer-generated universe that his computer is drawing onto his goggles and pumping into his earphones. In the
      • is_parent Neuromancer
        💧 Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson is the novel that defined cyberpunk. Set in a near-future global sprawl, it follows Case, a washed-up hacker navigating
        • is_parent Cyberspace 🔒 ·
          "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
        • is_parent Cyberspace 🔒 ·
          "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
      • is_parent Schismatrix
        💧 Schismatrix (1985) by Bruce Sterling is a foundational cyberpunk / post-cyberpunk novel set several centuries in the future, after humanity has spread throug
        • is_parent Shapers 🔒 ·
          💧 Shapers – humans who use genetic engineering, psychological conditioning, and biological optimization to evolve the human body and mind. They value adaptabili
        • is_parent Mechanists 🔒 ·
          💧 Mechanists – humans who embrace cybernetic implants, mechanical augmentation, and life-extension via machinery, favoring stability, durability, and engineered
        • is_parent Shapers 🔒 ·
          💧 Shapers – humans who use genetic engineering, psychological conditioning, and biological optimization to evolve the human body and mind. They value adaptabili
        • is_parent Mechanists 🔒 ·
          💧 Mechanists – humans who embrace cybernetic implants, mechanical augmentation, and life-extension via machinery, favoring stability, durability, and engineered
      • is_parent Baroquepunk, Steampunk & co. ·
        Baroquepunk is a speculative genre where ornament, excess, and early-modern worldviews collide with systems thinking. Inspired by Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, it
      • is_parent Solarpunk ·
        💧 Solarpunk is a speculative genre and cultural movement imagining desirable futures built on renewable energy, ecological repair, and social justice. Rooted i
      • is_parent Afrofuturism 🔒 ·
        💧 Afrofuturism is a cultural and speculative framework that reimagines the past, present, and future through African and African-diasporic perspectives, blendin
      • is_parent Nanopunk 🔒 ·
        💧 Nanopunk is a speculative genre in which nanotechnology replaces industry, infrastructure, and scarcity itself, reorganizing society around control of matter
      • is_parent Berlinpunk 🔒
        Imagine Berlin in 2300 / AE330. Is it still a city or did it turn into desert ? Or jungle ? Is UdK still planning to relocate to Tempelhof ? Do foxes still roa
        • is_parent Fazit 🔒 ·
          If cyberpunk says “the future is desperate and broken” (berlin|solar)punk insists “the future is enjoyable, repairable—and worth designing together”.P.S. pleas
        • is_parent Fazit 🔒 ·
          If cyberpunk says “the future is desperate and broken” (berlin|solar)punk insists “the future is enjoyable, repairable—and worth designing together”.P.S. pleas
      • is_parent Metaverse 🔒 ·
        "So Hiro's not actually here at all. He's in a computer-generated universe that his computer is drawing onto his goggles and pumping into his earphones. In the
    • contains Sowing thoughts, sowing worlds ·
      Olivia Butler - The parable of the SowerNnedi Okorafor -
    • contains Congress AE5602
      Medienhaus Aula, Gaia
      • is_parent 0. Tagesordnung 🔒 ·
      • is_parent 1. Berichte 🔒
        Reports from past, present and future parallel universes.
        • is_parent شاهنامه 🔒 ·
          شاهنامه
        • is_parent 三体 🔒 ·
          The Three Body Problem
        • is_parent Something Funny 🔒 ·
          Futurological Congress? Sirens of Titan ? Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy ? Or just a tiny little dose of Red Dwarf, peut-etre ?
      • is_parent 2. Propositions 🔒
        Propositions of Amendments to Common Ecological Protocol.
        • is_parent Preservationists 🔒 ·
          "Humanity denotes embodied, mortal descendants of the homo meta-sapiens lin-eage—whether baseline, enhanced ((Article III.1 of Common Ecologic Protocol)
        • is_parent Shapers
          Larvae. Air / Cloud / Rain. Bumblebees. Lichen. Water. Frogs. Dogs. Mika.alien. Hibernating ore. Earth &c.
        • is_parent Machinists 🔒 ·
          "Term 'Machine' denotes constructed, non-evolved system(s) capable of autonomous operation, including artificial intelligence, cybernetic extensions, and synth
      • is_parent 3. Votum & Disputation 🔒 ·
        https://udk.ai/vote
      • is_parent 4. Ratification 🔒 ·
        Snapshot of the CEP-Modification/Amendment votum will be taken at 11:45 CET.Based on variable values, the proposed Amendments of the Protocol will get activate
      • is_parent 5. The Last Possibility to snap an AAP 🔒 ·
        Who is the author of the following citation: "The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion that we must take seriously ... We must not attempt to live outsi
      • is_parent 6. Post Scriptum 🔒 ·
        In last semester we visited at least hundred worlds so there's still few more to go.Thus, Auf wiedersehen in Sauen & "So long, and thanks for all the 🐟 !"
    • contains Seeding myths 🔊
      Let's start the vertical and horizontal analysis of past, present and future myths.
      • is_parent TOPOI
        Which topics are common to sci-fi ? Which ones are shared with other forms of fiction (fairy-tales, mythology, fantasy, speculative fiction) ? Which topics dis
        • is_parent Space 🔒 ·
          notion of other worlds (continents, moon, planets, solar systems, flat worlds etc.) there is often a technology allowing one to "translate" between these worlds
        • is_parent Time 🔒 ·
          time slow-down / time acceleration time dilation time machines and time loops pre-cognition and post-cognition reversal of 2nd Law of Thermodynamics / axis of t
        • is_parent Reality 🔒
          parallel worlds / universes / multiverses uchronias / alternative history worlds dreams, hallucinations, psychoses, altered states of consciousness post-death,
          • is_parent Narrative Ingression 🔒 ·
            Narrative ingression: the process by which a fictional NARRATIVE ENTERS and becomes actual within the reader’s reality, dissolving the boundary between the ima
        • is_parent Energy 🔒 ·
          new sources of energy / new access to known sources of energy (nuclear fusion, rain energy) new means of storing energy other forms of energy (e.g. Elan Vitale,
        • is_parent Nature 🔒 ·
          animals, past animals (mammooths, dinos), hybrids (centaurs, pegasus) , aliens mutants; possible evolutionary developments (e.g. speaking poodles, planet of ape
        • is_parent Brain & Body 🔒
          body extensions: protesis, (trans|im)plants, new body parts, exoskelets, nanotech biochemical modifications (drugs, genetics) sex, androgyny, kink transcendenc
          • is_parent Your (super)power(s) 🔒 ·
            Little wake-up exercise: Create two circles, to each person in inner circle corresponds a person in the outer circle. Within the couple You ask each other "What
        • is_parent Society 🔒 ·
          reactivated social forms already known from history (tribe-like communities, matriarchy, kingdom, empire, slavery) extrapolations of existing trends (surveillan
        • is_parent Machine 🔒 ·
          humans create something "to their image" creation surpasses its creatorsomething (a glitch, a divine intervention, a spark of empathy) happensa conflict betwee
      • is_parent India
        King Kakudmi & Revati visit Brahmā’s realm — return after 27 yuga cycles (Bhāgavata Purāṇa 9.8.26–28). King Muchukunda sleeps for an age;
        • is_parent Avatar (etymology) ·
          "descent of a Hindu deity to earth in an incarnate or tangible form," from Sanskrit avatarana "descent" (of a deity to the earth in incarnate form), from ava-
      • is_parent Greece ·
        Pandora — first woman crafted from clay → engineered being. Pygmalion — sculptor creates a synthetic woman brought to life by Aphrodite →
      • is_parent Egypt ·
        Ra’s solar barque sails across sky and underworld each day → cosmic ship. The Duat (𓂋𓏏𓈉) as cyclical underworld journey → time loop / nightly re
      • is_parent China
        The artificer Yan Shi presents the Yellow Emperor with a mechanical man of wood and leather — moves, sings, even flirts → one of the earliest robot legends. Lu
        • is_parent Yellow Emperor & the Queen Mother of the West 🔒 ·
          The Yellow Emperor traveled north of the Red River and ascended the Hill of Kunlun. Turning south to return, he lost his way and for three months could not find
      • is_parent Maya and Inca ·
        Maya and Inca
      • is_parent Yorumba, Dogon &c. ·
        Yorumba, Dogon &c.
      • is_parent Edda & Kalevala ·
        Edda & Kalevala
      • is_parent Artefact of the day - Table of destiny
        Ancient Sumerian–Babylonian mythic tablets inscribed with the divine code of the universe — whoever possessed them controlled fate, kingship, and cosmic order.
        • is_parent Kernel of the Operating System 🔒 ·
          The Kernel is the sequence of symbols of constituting the core program of a computer’s Operating System — it manages memory, processes, and com
      • is_parent Lecture for next week ·
        The Mahābhārata – The Vimana Episode The Painter and the Mechanical Maiden Daedalus and Icarus King Kakudmi and Revati King Muchukunda Awakens Wang Ziqia
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