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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A set of genius twins use money from their inventions to buy a spaceship and tour the solar system.
Aliens that resemble starfish. Four-fold, five-fold, or six-fold rotational symmetry is most common.