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TOPOI

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Which topics are common to sci-fi ? Which ones are shared with other forms of fiction (fairy-tales, mythology, fantasy, speculative fiction) ? Which topics distinguish it from other forms of fiction ?

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  • 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
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