Adherence to and violation of specific laws, major and minor, can be used to move plots forward in science fiction as in any other genre.
List of Statutes
A
- Academic Freedom Bill of Rights - Frederic C. Rich's novel Christian Nation
- Alaskan Settlement Act - Michael Chabon's alternative history novel The Yiddish Policeman's Union
B
- Bus Enterprise Terrorism Act (to repress civil rights protests) - Will Potter's 2011 nonfiction book Green is the New Red, p. 168
C
- Conduct Unbecoming a United States Marine - A Few Good Men 1992 film
E
- Enterprise Protection Act - Johanna Sinisalo's novel The Blood of Angels, Pp. 190-191
- Equalization Law (population control) - Robert Silverberg's novel Master of Life and Death
F
- Fairness in Hell Act of 2275 - Futurama universe
- Freedom From Information Act - Hillary Jordan's When She Woke: A Novel, p. 74
G
- Galactic Artificial Sentience Prohibition Act of 2998 (GASP) - Robert Kroese's novel Starship Grifters and novella Aye Robot: A Rex Nihilo Adventure
H
- Haden Research Initiating Act - John Scalzi's novel Lock In
- Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act - Frederic C. Rich's novel Christian Nation
I
- Impact Preparation Security and Stabilization Act (IPSSA) - Ben H. Winters's novel The Last Policeman
L
- Law of Cultural Embargo - Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The Left Hand of Darkness, p. 247
- Lunch Counter Terrorism Act (to repress civil rights protests) - Will Potter's 2011 nonfiction book Green is the New Red, p.168
M
- Michigan Resettlement Act - David Brin's novel Existence, p. 44
N
- National Firearms Registration and Responsibility Act (gun control) - Arthur C. Clarke and Muchael Kube-McDowell's novel The Trigger, p. 205
- New York State Parenthood Code' (eugenic) - John Brunner's novel Stand on Zanzibar, p. 38
P
- Preschooler Empowerment Act - James Morrow's novel This is the Way the World Ends, p. 185
- Population Law 3903 - Margaret Peterson Haddix's novel Among the Hidden
- Proposition 653 - Altered Carbon television series
- Prime Directive - Star Trek universe
- Protection of Women Act - Zoë Fairbairns’s 1979 novel Benefits, p. 204
R
- Revised Genetis Testing Avt (eugenic) - Thomas M. Disch's novel 334, p. 13
- Revised Space Recautionary Act - Robert A. Heinlein's novel Methusaleh's Children
S
- Section 5 of the TerCon Postwar Pact - James Lovegrove's novel World of Fire
- Settlement Regulations - D.G. Compton's novel Farewell, Earth's Bliss
- Standing Order Municipal Rule One-four-two - Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes's novel Beowulf's Children, p. 31
- Sustainable Future Act (fossil fuel prohibition) - Omar El Akkad's novel American War, p. 22
T
- Three Laws of Robotics - Isaac Asimov's I Robots universe
- Timmler Act - Yahtzee Crosshaw's novel Will Save The Galaxy For Food, p. 234
- Trade Union Enactment - Anthony Burgess's novel 1985, p. 136
U
- Ultra Patriot Act - Charles Wohlforth and Amanda R. Hendrix's nonfiction book Beyond Earth, p. 133
W
- Wembly Laws (passed by mob assent) - Ben Elton's novel Blind Faith
Y
- Yanthus Prime Controlled Substance Act - Robert Kroese's short story "The Yanthus Prime Job"
Fictional lLaws in Other Genres
- Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIPA-18) - Bodyguard 2018 miniseries