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Revision as of 15:04, 12 August 2012
List
- Adventure After Being Accidentally Crygenically Frozen and/or Trapped in a Stasis Field Chamber
- Examples
- Aging population burdens society:
- Example
- Albert Brooks 2030
- Astronaut trapped in an airlock:
- Examples
- 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 film
- Catastrophe Caused by Scientific Blunder:
- Examples
- Gerald Hatch's novel The Day the Earth Froze
- Extraterrestrial brain slugs deprive their human hosts of free will:
- Examples:
- Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 novel The Puppet Masters.
- Extraterrestrials contact humanity but only appear to be friendly:
- Examples:
- "To Serve Man" episode of The Twilight Zone 1962
- Humans degenerate through speciation:
- Examples:
- H.G. Wells's novel Then Time Machine
- Poul Anderson's "Ghetto," a short story in William F. Nolan's collection A Wilderness of Stars and "The Horn of Time the Hunter," a short story in his collection The Horn of Time
- Tatyana Tolstaya's novel The Slynx
- Humans mutate horribly after nuclear war:
- Tatyana Tolstaya's novel The Slynx
- Master Computer for an Entire Society
- Lomax HG Wells' The Shape of Things to Come 1979 film
- Monster disguised as an attractive woman:
- Shambleau
- Mars Attacks 1996 film
- Nuclear experiment gone horribly wrong:
- Example:
- Attack of the Crab Monsters 1957 film
- Overpopulation forces humans to live in immense towers or beneath the ground:
- Examples:
- Towers
- Mack Reynolds' 1975 novel The Towers of Utopia
- J.T. McIntosh's 1958 novel The Million Cities
- Towers
- Planet that appears a Paradise Hides Some Horror:
- Examples
- "The Apple" episode of Star Trek: The Original Series
- Post-Apocalyptic Barbarism:
- Examples
- nuclear war
- A Boy and His Dog 1975 film
- The Book of Eli 2010 film
- climate change
- Poul Anderson's novel The Winter of the World
- Tatyana Tolstaya's novel The Slynx
- nuclear war
- 'Robots or Remotely Controlled Bodies Cause Social Decadence;
- Examples
- Surrogates 2009 film
- Scientist unleashes powers he (rarely she) cannot control
- examples:
- Mary Shelley's 1823 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
- Forbidden Planet 1956 film
- The Black Hole 2006 film
- Surrogates 2009 film
- Tentacle monster molests human female
- Starships exiting hyperspace arrive horizontal to the ecliptic of the star system
External Links
- List of Science Fiction Cliches with few examples
- Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt Comedian Patten Oswalt identifies three author/possible audience groups for deqaling with life through science fiction.