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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Rendezvous with Rama 1973

by Arthur C. Clarke

When a very large and unusually regular object enters the solar system on a hyperbolic trajectory, Earth dispatches a scout ship to rendezvous and investigate it.

Magnetic Monopoles 1 occurrences

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

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