© 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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Some science fiction works start on Earth then thrust the reader into a new, foreign world. Works with this motif tour the reader around many strange cultures so that by the time Earth appears, it seems strange by comparison.
© 2023 Science Fiction Motif Index by Alexander Lowry. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0