© 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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Gravity manipulation, the secret for FTL travel, is relatively trivial, and most civilizations develop it before the industrial revolution. When aliens arrive on Earth in a pitch-covered wooden ship with muskets, they are suprised to find the advanced weaponry on a planet without FTL travel.
A drive or reaction system that uses steam. Used on microsats.
© 2023 Science Fiction Motif Index by Alexander Lowry. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0