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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Encounter at Farpoint (Star Trek: The Next Generation) 1987

by Gene Roddenberry , Corey Allen , and D. C. Fontana

Big Crunch 1 occurrences

A hypothesis of cosmology that states that eventually, the universe will once again collapse as gravity overpowers dark energy, possibly resulting in a second big bang. Sometimes this is cyclical, with a series of universes in an eternal cycle. Big Crunch

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