© 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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An envoy for the Ekumen - a coalition of worlds - visits a unique planet called Gethen/Winter where the population is genderless and sexless, and finds it difficult to understand their psychology.
Cosmic scales are really very enormous, and most sci-fi authors need something to make these massive scales accountable, able to be used in stories.
© 2023 Science Fiction Motif Index by Alexander Lowry. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0