A science fiction is a type of fiction that focuses primarily on the impact of real or imagined science on society or people.
Sci Fi Vocabulary Words
Following is a list of common science fiction terms along with their explanation:
- Artificial intelligence: The study and design of intelligent agents, like robots or software
- Alien: Imaginary creature from outer space.
- Alternate universe: A world other than our own. Similar to parallel universe.
- Asteroid: Rocky object orbiting the sun
- Atmosphere: Air or climate in a given place
- Bionic: Having electronically powered organs
- Black hole: Object in space with strong gravitational pull that no matter or energy can escape.
- Clones: Genetically identical organism
- Close encounter: Event where a person witnesses an unidentified flying object
- Cosmos: The whole universe
- Cryonics: Freezing of a corpse with the hope of restoring it later.
- Cryogenics: Study of extremely low temperatures
- Cybernetics: Study of communication in organisms, organic processes, and mechanical or electronic systems…when accompanied with implants, the concept of bionics is created.
- Cyborgs: A fictional being that is part-human, part-robot
- Cyberpunk: Fusion between man and machine set in an urban society that is usually anarchic
- Deep space: Space beyond the earth’s gravitational influence or beyond the orbit of the moon
- Dystopia: An ideal society that becomes intolerable
- Extraterrestrial: Existing or coming from somewhere outside earth and its atmosphere
- Flying saucer: A disk-shaped flying object believed to be an extraterrestrial spacecraft
- Force field: A shield (in some cases large enough to cover an entire planet) to protect something from damage by natural forces or enemy attack
- Galaxy: Assembly of stars, gas and dust
- Gravity: The attraction of bodies toward the center of the earth.
- Anti-gravity: The idea of creating a place or object that is free from the force of gravity.
- Hostile: Very unfriendly, strongly opposed to somebody or something
- Humanoid: Describes a being from another planet that has the appearance or characteristics of a human
- Hyperspace: A fictional space in which laws of physics may be circumvented allowing faster-than-light travel or time travel.
- Hyperdrive: Propulsion systems that allow starships to enter hyperspace to traverse the vast distances of space at faster-than-light speeds
- Interstellar: Occurring among/ between stars
- Mortal: Relating to human beings, eventually dying
- Mutation: Change in genetic material
- Nebula: An interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen gas and plasma
- Nova: A star that suddenly increases dramatically in brightness and then fades to its original luminosity over a short period of months or years
- Super nova: A stellar explosion that creates an extremely luminous object
- Positronic brain: A computer cpu with the capacity to rival a human brain.
- Relativity: Refers to Einstein’s theory on the gravitational pull on objects
- Robot: A mechanical device that can be programmed to carry out instructions and perform complicated tasks usually done by people
- Satellite: Device that orbits a planet
- Sentient: Capable of feeling and perception
- Speed of light: 186,000 miles per second, a speed impossible to exceed according to Einstein’s theories of relativity
- Starship: A spaceship designed to travel between stars or star systems, as yet existing only in
- Science fiction technology: The study, development, and application of devices, machines, and techniques for manufacturing and productive processes
- Teleportation: To move something using mental power or without traveling
- Terraforming: Modifying a planet, moon, or other body so its atmosphere, temperature, or ecology is similar to those of earth in order to make it habitable by humans.
- Time paradox: An impossible situation created by traveling back through time, for example, when a man travels back and kills his father, so that he himself could never exist
- Time travel: Moving backward or forward in time
- Time warp: A hypothetical distortion in the continuum of space-time, allowing time to stand still or people to travel from one time to another
- Time/space continuum: The theory that space and time are interconnected. Theory that allows for time travel.
- Ufo (unidentified flying object): A flying object that cannot be identified and is thought by some to be an alien spacecraft
- Utopia: An ideal and perfect place or state where everyone lives in harmony and everything is for the best
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