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The following is a list of science fiction themes.

Common themes and tropes

See also: Science fiction genre

Cosmology

Economics

  • "Age of Greater Scarcity", often in connection with ecological or post-apocalyptic themes. In such dystopias, people are poorer and have fewer resources to draw on.
  • Post-"Age of Scarcity" (arguments over how to distribute resources are irrelevant since anyone can have anything they reasonably want). Examples include:

History

Language

Military

Sociology

Types of beings

See also: List of stock characters in science fiction

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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