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The following is a list of common science fiction themes.
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==Overarching themes==
The following is a '''list of science fiction themes'''.

==Common themes and tropes==
{{seealso|Science fiction genre}} {{seealso|Science fiction genre}}
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**Science fiction is used to raise awareness of ecological ideas. Lends itself well to dystopian futures. Frank Herbert and Kim Stanley Robinson are known for their serious concern with ecological issues.
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**"Age of Greater Scarcity", often in connection with ecological or post-apocalyptic themes. In such ]s, people are poorer and have fewer resources to draw on.
**] (arguments over how to distribute resources are irrelevant since anyone can have anything they reasonably want). Examples include:
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**#The '']'' series of television shows and films, in which humanity has "transcended" the need for money through an indeterminate future economic system that is likely aided by technologies that allow nearly infinite energy and the fabrication of virtually any object from energy.
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*The ] *The ]
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*]s or universes.
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*"Age of Greater Scarcity", often in connection with ecological or post-apocalyptic themes. In such ]s, people are poorer and have fewer resources to draw on.
*] (arguments over how to distribute resources are irrelevant since anyone can have anything they reasonably want). Examples include:

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**]: history repeating itself (either on long or short scales) **]: history repeating itself (either on long or short scales)
**Scientific ] of the future (e.g. ]) **Scientific ] of the future (e.g. ])
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**Alien languages (e.g. ]) **Alien languages (e.g. ])
**All humans speaking one language **All humans speaking one language (possibly ])
**Current human languages evolving/splitting **Current human languages evolving/splitting
**The ] being strongly true (e.g. ] by ] or ] by ]) **The ] being strongly true (e.g. ] by ] or ] by ])
**]s (e.g. ]) **]s (e.g. ])

===Military===
*] - strategy, weapons, ranks, technologies. *] - strategy, weapons, ranks, technologies.
**]s **]s
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*]s or universes.
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**There is a space based civilization variant of this theme. This plot device allows writers to write ] while accounting for the lack of technological advancement and thus similarity to the present day.
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*] (including ]s, ], ] and ]) *] (including ]s, ], ] and ])
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*]s
*hive-like ] societies
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*]s{{Fact|date=September 2008}}
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*]s & ]
*] - a belief that the universe is entirely the creation of one's own mind{{Fact|date=September 2008}}
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==Types of beings== ==Types of beings==
*Alternate intelligences

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{{See also|List of stock characters in science fiction}}
**Beings of pure mentality
**]s
**]s - memories, characters and consciences of persons being uploaded to a computer or storage media
**] - the "sphere of human thought"
**] & ] - a belief that the universe is entirely the creation of one's own mind
*]s and ]s
**]s
**]s and ]s
**]s
**]s
*Characters
**The ] or ] & ]
**The ]
**The God-Like Alien
**The Golem
**The Ignorant Friend
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**The Robot Clone
**The Robot Servant
**The ]
***The ]
***The Amoral Scientist
***The Heroic Scientist
***The Lame Amoral Scientist
**The ]
*]s
*] (see ])
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***Principles of non-interference (e.g. ])
*Living Planets
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*]s
*] - using technology to "raise" non-human animals to human evolutionary levels


==Body and mind alterations== ==Body and mind alterations==
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**] **] - a proposed problem in which the reduced death rate caused by ]s would lead to a shortage of organs available for transplant
*Mind interfacing
**Memory removal/editing
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**Neural implants to directly interface with machinery **Neural implants to directly interface with machinery
*] & ] *] & ] (nanomilitary, nanomaterials, nanoecology, nanomedicine, nanocomputing, nanospace, nanoenergy)
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*] *] (size-changing, miniaturization, magnification, shrinking, and enlargement)
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{{Main|Political ideas in science fiction}} {{Main|Political ideas in science fiction}}
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*] (see: ] and ]) *] (see: ] and ])
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**return to ]
**hive-like ] societies
**future ]s
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*]s and ]s *]s and ]s
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*]s *]s
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*]''' *]'''
{{main|Libertarian science fiction}} {{main|Libertarian science fiction}}
*Limited-franchise ]
*] and ]
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*] state
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==Travel== ==Travel==
*] of other planets, moons, ]s, etc. *] of other planets, moons, ]s, etc.
**] ***]
*Moving planets *Moving planets
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*] & ] *] & ]
*] & ] *] & ]
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*Technology
*Technology
**Far advanced technology for the time.
**Alien technology being found and used by humans. Most of the time for selfish purposes, or is being used incorrectly (not how it's supposed to work) **Far advanced technology for the time.
**Alien technology being found and used by humans. Most of the time for selfish purposes, or is being used incorrectly (not how it's supposed to work)

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Revision as of 08:04, 14 November 2008

The following is a list of common science fiction themes.

Overarching themes

See also: Science fiction genre

Types of beings

Body and mind alterations

Possible futures

Political structures

Main article: Political ideas in science fiction Main article: Libertarian science fiction

Habitats

Travel

Technologies

See also

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