Science Fiction Motif Index

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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Work of the Day

Rocannon's World 1966
by Ursula K. Le Guin

An ethnologist for the human alliance "League of all Worlds", Gaverel Rocannon, arrives on a planet with medieval civilizations to study its peoples. Soon after, exploitative developers arrive, cutting him off from help. With the help of his newly-found allies, he makes a journey across continents to infiltrate their camps and use the their ansible to call secretly for help.

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