Description: Table of Contents Acknowledgments deletexi Foreword by David Brin Key and Abbreviations Preface Introduction Part One: The Terms of Science and Its Fictions Alter Ego Anachronism Artificial Intelligence Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics Atomics Bad Code BEM (Bug-Eyed Monster) Big Dumb Objects Bobble Chronotransference Clarke's Laws Corpsicle Cosmogony of the Future Cryonics Cyberspace Death Ray Deep Blue Doomsday Machine Fermis First Contact Frankenstein Complex Gas Giant Goldilocks Planet "He's dead, Jim." Internet of Things Ion Drive Juno Spacecraft Kludge MacGyver Metalaw Multiplex Parenting Mutant Nanotechnology Neural Lace Pellegrino, Powell and Asimov's Three Laws of Alien Behavior Positronic Brain Railgun Realtime Robot Robotics SETI Solar Sail Solo Parenting Stepford Wives Teleportation Time Bunny Time Machine Timequake Timeskip Timeslip Uncanny Valley Uplift Uterine Replicator Utility Fog Wolfling Part Two: Genre Terms Alternate (or Alternative) History Archetype Cassandras Fantasy Faust Fictions of Nuclear Disaster Fixup Hard SF Lost Colony Lost World Story Monomyth Proto-Science Fiction Rim World Ruritania Science Fantasy Science Fiction Scientific Romance Sci-Fi Separable Soul Speculative Fiction Speculative History Speculative Nonfiction Technothriller Works Cited Index

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