© 2023 Science Fiction Motif Index by Alexander Lowry. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Welcome to the Science Fiction Motif Index, a small repository of concepts from science fiction and their history. Explore the development of robots, carbon fiber, and alien encounters as told through stories of different time periods. Find the influences and predecessors of your favorite stories, or other stories that explore the same concepts.
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A young genius physicist is caught between the politics of his anarchist homeworld and its foreign capitalist neighbor.
Absurdly large structures that would take a much more powerful civilization than ours to build, in addition to massive amounts of materials and energy.
© 2023 Science Fiction Motif Index by Alexander Lowry. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0