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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Rossum's Universal Robots (R.U.R.) 1920

by Karel Čapek

(Czech: Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti)

Deadly High Specific Tensile Strength Materials 3 occurrences

Materials with a high specific tensile strength, often in the form of thin wire, can be made so thin and light as to be nearly-invisible. Being so thin, yet stronger than other materials, mean they easily cut through anything.

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