Science Fiction Motif Index

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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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Fountains of Paradise 1979

by Arthur C. Clarke

In the fictional nation of Taprobane, a country near Sri Lanka on the equator, an engineer arrives wishing to build a space elevator with a new impossibly-strong filament.

Magnetic Monopoles 1 occurrences

A magnet that is only a north pole or south pole.

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