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Simulated consciousness in fiction : Simulated consciousness, synthetic consciousness, etc. is a theme of a number of works in science fiction. The theme is one step beyond the concept of the "brain in a vat"/"simulated reality" in that not only the perceived reality but the brain and its consciousness are simulations ... |
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.hack : .hack (pronounced "Dot Hack") is a Japanese multimedia franchise that encompasses two projects: Project .hack and .hack Conglomerate. They were primarily created and developed by CyberConnect2, and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. The series features an alternative history setting in the rise of the new... |
.hack : Project .hack was the first project of the .hack series. It launched in 2002 with the anime series .hack//Sign in April 2002 and the PlayStation 2 game .hack//Infection in June 2002. Project developers included Koichi Mashimo (Bee Train), Kazunori Itō (Catfish) and Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Gainax). Since then, Proje... |
.hack : .hack Conglomerate is the current project of .hack by CyberConnect2 and various other companies and successor to Project .hack. The companies include Victor Entertainment, Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Bandai, TV Tokyo, Bee Train, and Kadokawa Shoten. It encompasses a series of three PlayStation 2 games called ... |
.hack : A few characters from the franchise appear in the Nintendo 3DS games Project X Zone and Project X Zone 2. |
.hack : .hack// - Official (Worldwide) .hack// - Official Archived 2020-04-27 at the Wayback Machine (Worldwide) .hack// - Official (in Japanese) Project .hack// - Official (in Japanese) .hack// Conglomerate - Official (in Japanese) .hack//Trilogy - Official (in Japanese) |
.hack (video game series) : .hack () is a series of single-player action role-playing video games developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Bandai for the PlayStation 2. The four games, .hack//Infection, .hack//Mutation, .hack//Outbreak, and .hack//Quarantine, all feature a "game within a game", a fictional massively... |
.hack (video game series) : .hack simulates an MMORPG; players assume the role of a participant in a fictional game called The World. The player controls the on-screen player character Kite from a third-person perspective but first-person mode is available. The player manually controls the viewing perspective using the... |
.hack (video game series) : Development for .hack began in early 2000 with the aim of shocking and surprising the player and creating a distinctive product. CyberConnect2's president Hiroshi Matsuyama played a key role in developing the concept for the series. A number of core ideas, including "slaying dragons or being... |
.hack (video game series) : By April 2004, the games had sold 1 million units in Japan and the United States. By March 2004, sales of the .hack games exceeded 1.73 million, with 780,000 copies sold in Japan. Critics gave the series mixed reviews. .hack//Infection received the most positive reviews of the series; critic... |
.hack (video game series) : The .hack video games are part of a multimedia franchise that includes novels, manga, and anime series. Set before the events of the video games, .hack//Sign is an anime television series that establishes The World as a setting. .hack//Another Birth is a series of novels that retells the sto... |
.hack (video game series) : dot hack official site Project .hack official site (in Japanese) |
The 100 (TV series) : The 100 (pronounced The Hundred ) is an American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama television series that premiered on March 19, 2014, on the CW, and ended on September 30, 2020. Developed by Jason Rothenberg, the series is loosely based on the young adult novel series The 100 by Kass Morgan.... |
The 100 (TV series) : Ninety-seven years after a devastating nuclear apocalypse wipes out most human life on Earth, thousands of people now live in a space station orbiting Earth, which they call the Ark. Three generations have been born in space, but when life-support systems on the Ark begin to fail, one hundred juve... |
The 100 (TV series) : The 100 premiered on March 19, 2014. On May 8, 2014, the CW renewed The 100 for a second season, which premiered on October 22, 2014. On January 11, 2015, the CW renewed the series for a third season, which premiered on January 21, 2016. On March 12, 2016, The 100 was renewed for a fourth season o... |
The 100 (TV series) : In Canada, Season 1 of The 100 was licensed exclusively to Netflix. The series premiered on March 20, 2014, the day after the mid-season premiere of Season 1 on the CW. In New Zealand, the series premiered on TVNZ's on-demand video streaming service on March 21, 2014. In the UK and Ireland, The 10... |
The 100 (TV series) : Warner Home Entertainment released the first five seasons' DVDs, and the first season's Blu-ray while the remaining five seasons' Blu-rays were released through Warner Archive Collection who also released a manufacture-on-demand DVD for the sixth and seventh seasons. |
The 100 (TV series) : In October 2019, Rothenberg began developing a prequel series to The 100 for the CW. A backdoor pilot episode was ordered; "Anaconda" aired July 8, 2020, as an episode of the seventh and final season of The 100. The prequel series was to show the events 97 years before the original series, beginni... |
The 100 (TV series) : Official website The 100 at IMDb |
17776 : 17776 (also known as What Football Will Look Like in the Future) is a serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative by Jon Bois, published online through SB Nation. Set in the distant future in which all humans have become immortal and infertile, the series follows three sapient space probes that watch hu... |
17776 : The story takes place on a future Earth where humans stopped dying, aging, and being born in 2026. All social ills were subsequently eliminated, and technology preventing humans from any injury was developed. In the United States, American football evolved to include new rules, including those that allow fields... |
17776 : 17776 is read by scrolling through pages occupied by large GIF images and colored dialogue text, interspersed with occasional YouTube videos. The story is divided into chapters, which were originally published in daily installments between July 5 and 15, 2017. Much of the GIF and video content of the series use... |
17776 : Bois wrote and illustrated 17776 for Vox Media's sports news website SB Nation, of which he is creative director. Aside from 17776, Bois produces two other recurring, humorous video essay programs for the site: Pretty Good, which focuses on unusual sports topics and stories, and Chart Party, which focuses on st... |
17776 : Bois has stated that he had "conceived [17776] to give the reader a good time," asserting that this "was literally the whole point." William Hughes writing for The A.V. Club described 17776 as concerned with why humans play sports: "That is, given the massive resources, time, and information at our disposal (no... |
17776 : According to the communications director at Vox Media, 17776 garnered over 2.3 million pageviews by July 10. Two days later, it had received more than 2.9 million pageviews. Average engagement time was over nine minutes, and 43 percent of readers finished each installment of the series published by July 7. On J... |
17776 : On September 28, 2020, a sequel titled 20020 was launched on Secret Base, a branch of SB Nation; on October 13, it was revealed to be the first part of a two-part continuation with the second half, 20021, originally planned for release in the winter or spring of 2021, though later delayed. One chapter of 20020 ... |
17776 : Hypertext fiction |
17776 : Silcox, Nicholas R. (May 2018). Making Space in the Anthropocene: 17776, (Un)Worlding, and Speculative Fiction (MA). New Brunswick–Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University. doi:10.7282/T37H1NXS. |
17776 : Official website Wayback Machine link 20020: The Future of College Football 20020: Questions and answers |
A.I.s : A.I.s is a themed anthology of science fiction short works edited by American writers Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in December 2004. It was reissued as an ebook by Baen Books in June 2013. The book collects ten novelettes and short stories by various science fic... |
A.I.s : "Preface" (Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois) "Antibodies" (Charles Stross) "Trojan Horse" (Michael Swanwick) "Birth Day" (Robert Reed) "The Hydrogen Wall" (Gregory Benford) "The Turing Test" (Chris Beckett) "Dante Dreams" (Stephen Baxter) "The Names of All the Spirits" (J. R. Dunn) "From the Corner of My Eye" (Alex... |
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4 : The fourth season of the American television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., based on the Marvel Comics spy organization S.H.I.E.L.D., follows Phil Coulson and other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and allies after the signing of the Sokovia Accords. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)... |
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4 : In July 2016, members of the cast and the executive producers attended San Diego Comic-Con to promote the season. The trolly used to transport attendees at San Diego Comic-Con was covered in advertisements for the series, highlighting the addition of Ghost Rider. Also, Ghost Rider's 19... |
Altered Carbon : Altered Carbon is a 2002 British cyberpunk novel by the English writer Richard K. Morgan. Set in a future in which interstellar travel and relative immortality is facilitated by transferring consciousnesses between bodies ("sleeves"), it follows the attempt of Takeshi Kovacs, a former U.N. elite soldie... |
Altered Carbon : In the future, humans have achieved virtual immortality. Most people have cortical stacks in their spinal columns that store their consciousness. If their body dies, their stack can be stored indefinitely. Their stacks can be downloaded into new bodies, or "sleeves", after death. Roman Catholics do not... |
Altered Carbon : On the colony planet of Harlan's World, Takeshi Kovacs, former Envoy who had returned to a life of crime, and his partner Sarah Sachilowski, are killed by a U.N. colonial commando unit. Kovacs is sentenced to a long term in stack storage. On Earth, a Meth named Laurens Bancroft has died in mysterious c... |
Altered Carbon : Describing the book, Kirkus Reviews said that "The body count is high, the gadgetry pure genius, the sex scenes deliriously overwrought, and the worn cynicism thoroughly distasteful: a welcome return to cyberpunk's badass roots." The book won the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel in 2003. |
Altered Carbon : Altered Carbon title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Altered Carbon at goodreads.com |
Altered Carbon (TV series) : Altered Carbon is an American cyberpunk television series created by Laeta Kalogridis and based on the 2002 novel of the same title by English author Richard K. Morgan. In a world where consciousness can be transferred to different bodies, Takeshi Kovacs, a former soldier turned investigato... |
Altered Carbon (TV series) : The series starts 360 years in the future, with most episodes of the first season set in the year 2384 in a futuristic metropolis known as Bay City. In the future, a person's memories and consciousness (termed digital human freight, or DHF) are recorded onto a disk-shaped device called a co... |
Altered Carbon (TV series) : Human-machine interface, gender identity, technology and society, cyberspace and objective reality, hyper-urbanization that passes up urban planning, artificial intelligence, paranoia. A key concept in Netflix's cyberpunk series Altered Carbon is the 'stack', an advanced hard drive installe... |
Altered Carbon (TV series) : Altered Carbon on Netflix Altered Carbon at IMDb Altered Carbon glossary at Screen Rant |
Assassin's Creed : Assassin's Creed is a historical action-adventure video game series and media franchise published by Ubisoft and developed mainly by its studio Ubisoft Montreal using the game engine Anvil and its more advanced derivatives. Created by Patrice Désilets, Jade Raymond, and Corey May, the Assassin's Cree... |
Assassin's Creed : While the games in the series have had several narrative arcs, Ubisoft views the series as currently having three periods of development and design philosophy. Until 2015's Assassin's Creed Syndicate, the franchise was structured around single-player content, and while centering on open world spaces ... |
Assassin's Creed : The Assassin's Creed games are centered around one or more fictional members of the Order of the Assassins. Their memories are experienced by an in-game character in the modern-day period through a device called the Animus and its derivations. The Animus allows the user to explore these memories pass... |
Assassin's Creed : The following table lists the main and spin-off games of the franchise, along with their release years and the respective platform(s) they released on: ^a Released under the title Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2014. ^b Originally released as DLC for all ve... |
Assassin's Creed : The Animus Hub is a feature which made its debut in Assassin's Creed Shadows, intended to connect multiple installments of the Assassin's Creed franchise. Initially announced as a standalone launcher under the name Assassin's Creed Infinity, Ubisoft revealed more details about the Animus Hub in Janua... |
Assassin's Creed : The Assassin's Creed series has received mainly positive reviews from critics, with Blast Magazine calling it "the standout series on [the seventh generation] of consoles". It has been praised for its ambitious game design, visuals, and narratives but criticized for its technical issues and annual re... |
Assassin's Creed : Elements of Assassin's Creed have been introduced as content into other Ubisoft games and those from third parties. The macOS and Microsoft Windows versions of Team Fortress 2 (2007) features two cosmetic items for the Spy class that were added to promote Assassin's Creed: Revelations; the first is t... |
Assassin's Creed : List of best-selling video game franchises |
Assassin's Creed : Official website The Assassin's Creed Wiki |
Batman: Beyond the White Knight : Batman: Beyond the White Knight is an American comic book published by DC Comics under its Black Label imprint. The eight-issue limited series — written and illustrated by Sean Murphy, lettered by AndWorld Design and colored by Dave Stewart — began its monthly publication on March 29, ... |
Batman: Beyond the White Knight : Batman: Beyond the White Knight was written and illustrated by Murphy, lettered by AndWorld Design, and colored by Dave Stewart, the latter who replaced Matt Hollingsworth as colorist; Hollingsworth colored the earlier volumes of the White Knight series. Batman: Beyond the White Knight... |
Batman: Beyond the White Knight : The eighth and final issue of Batman: Beyond the White Knight serves as the set-up for a Justice League-centric comic book titled World's Finest: White Knight. |
Batman: Beyond the White Knight : In December 2021, Murphy stated that he has "at least" one sequel planned for Batman: Beyond the White Knight. A two-issue prequel limited series titled Batman: White Knight Presents: Red Hood — co-written by Murphy and Clay McCormack, illustrated by Simone Di Meo and George Kambadais,... |
Batman: Beyond the White Knight : Joe the Barbarian — another comic book series illustrated by Murphy |
Batman: Beyond the White Knight : Batman: Beyond the White Knight on DC Database, a DC Comics wiki |
Battle Angel Alita : Battle Angel Alita, known in Japan as Gunnm (銃夢, Ganmu, lit. 'gun dream'), is a Japanese cyberpunk manga series created by Yukito Kishiro and originally published in Shueisha's Business Jump magazine from 1990 to 1995. The second of the comic's nine volumes was adapted in 1993 into a two-part anime... |
Battle Angel Alita : Battle Angel Alita tells the story of Alita, an amnesiac female cyborg. Her intact head and chest, in suspended animation, are found by cyber medic expert Daisuke Ido in the local garbage dump. Ido manages to revive her, and finding she has lost her memory, names her Alita after his recently deceas... |
Battle Angel Alita : Battle Angel Alita features a diverse cast of characters, many of whom shift in and out of focus as the story progresses. Some are never to be seen again following the conclusion of a story arc, while others make recurring appearances. The one character who remains a constant throughout is Alita, t... |
Battle Angel Alita : Alita was originally a female cyborg police officer named Gally in an unpublished comic called Rainmaker. Publishers at Shueisha liked her and asked Kishiro to make a new story with her as the main character. After he had come up with the plot for a storyline he was commissioned to make it a long-r... |
Battle Angel Alita : During Gunnm's initial run in Business Jump manga magazine between 1990 and 1995, the magazine's circulation reached a record 760,000 monthly sales, the highest in its history. Between 1990 and 1995, Business Jump magazine had a total circulation of over 50 million copies, with a total estimated re... |
Battle Angel Alita : Aelita, also known as Aelita, or The Decline of Mars Armitage III Genocyber |
Battle Angel Alita : Cholodenko, Alan, ed. (2007). The Illusion of Life II: More Essays on Animation. Sydney: Power Publications. ISBN 9780909952341. |
Battle Angel Alita : Official website Official website at Kodansha (in Japanese) Battle Angel Alita (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia |
Battle Angel Alita: Last Order : Gunnm: Last Order (Japanese: 銃夢Last Order, Hepburn: Ganmu Rasuto Ōdā), also known as Battle Angel Alita: Last Order in the English translation, is a Japanese science fiction manga series created by Yukito Kishiro and published between 2000 and 2014. It is the second series of the Battle... |
Battle Angel Alita: Last Order : Last Order begins when Alita is resurrected by Desty Nova's nanotechnology in the floating city of Tiphares. The city's dark secrets are brutally exposed, but it turns out to be a small part of a complex world. Going into space with new and old companions alike, to look for her lost fri... |
Battle Angel Alita: Last Order : Earth is a wasteland after a cataclysmic solar flare and asteroid impact, which created a long impact winter and nearly made humans extinct. Some managed to survive and, with the help of a mysterious quantum computer, rebuild civilization to what it is in Last Order. The colonization of... |
Battle Angel Alita: Last Order : Official website Official website at Kodansha (in Japanese) Battle Angel Alita: Last Order (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia |
Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) : Battlestar Galactica is an American military science fiction television series, and part of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. The show was developed by Ronald D. Moore and executive produced by Moore and David Eick as a re-imagining of the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television s... |
Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) : Battlestar Galactica continued from the 2003 miniseries to chronicle the journey of the last surviving humans from the Twelve Colonies of Kobol, after their nuclear annihilation by the Cylons. The survivors are led by President Laura Roslin and Commander William Adama in a ragtag... |
Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) : Time described Battlestar Galactica as "a gripping sci-fi allegory of the war on terror, complete with monotheistic religious fundamentalists (here genocidal cyborgs called Cylons), sleeper cells, civil-liberties crackdowns and even a prisoner-torture scandal". The show attempted... |
Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) : The opening theme is a new-age-inflected version of the Gayatri Mantra, a Hindu hymn dedicated to the solar deity Savitr. Bear McCreary was the primary composer for the television series, having assisted Richard Gibbs on the 3-hour miniseries. When the show was picked up, Gibbs o... |
Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) : The first season originally premiered in the United Kingdom, on October 18, 2004, on Sky1. The first season was co-commissioned by Sky Television and Sci-Fi Channel. Season 1 began airing in North America three months later, on January 14, 2005, in the United States, and January ... |
Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) : Official website Battlestar Galactica at IMDb |
Be Right Back : "Be Right Back" is the first episode of the second series of British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. It was written by series creator and showrunner Charlie Brooker, directed by Owen Harris, and first aired on Channel 4 on 11 February 2013. The episode tells the story of Martha (Hayley At... |
Be Right Back : Martha Powell (Hayley Atwell) and Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson) are a young couple who have moved to Ash's remote family house in the countryside. While unpacking, Ash mentions his mother moved photos of his father and brother to the attic after their deaths. The day after moving in, Ash is killed whil... |
Be Right Back : "Be Right Back" was the first episode of the second series of Black Mirror, produced by Zeppotron for Endemol. It aired on Channel 4 on 11 February 2013. On 22 January 2013, a trailer for the second series was released, featuring "a dream sequence", a "repetitive factory setting" and a "huge dust cloud"... |
Be Right Back : "Be Right Back" has grief as a central concept, according to Emily Yoshida of Grantland and James Hibberd of Entertainment Weekly. Luke Owen of Flickering Myth summarised the episode as a "sombre, low-key and all together depressing affair about grief and how people deal with it in different ways", with... |
Be Right Back : First airing on Channel 4 on 11 February 2013 at 10 p.m., the episode garnered 1.6 million viewers, a 9% share of the audience. This was 14% higher than the time slot's average for the channel, but a lower figure than the 1.9 million viewers who watched "The National Anthem", the previous series' first ... |
Be Right Back : "Be Right Back" at IMDb |
Biomega (manga) : Biomega (Japanese: バイオメガ, Hepburn: Baiomega) is a Japanese science fiction manga written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei. It was first serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine in 2004, and later in Shueisha's Ultra Jump from 2006 to 2009; its chapters were collected in six... |
Biomega (manga) : Set in the future, the plot follows Zoichi Kanoe and his AI companion Fuyu Kanoe, whose luminous form is integrated into the system of his motorcycle. They are agents sent by TOA Heavy Industries to retrieve humans with the ability to resist and transmute the N5S infection originating from Mars, which... |
Biomega (manga) : Biomega, written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei, was first serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from June 14 to September 6, 2004. Kodansha only released one tankōbon volume on November 5, 2004. The manga was later transferred to Shueisha's Ultra Jump, where it ran fr... |
Biomega (manga) : In a list of "10 Great Zombie Manga", Anime News Network's Jason Thompson placed Biomega in third place, calling it "the greatest science-fiction virus zombie manga ever". |
Biomega (manga) : Biomega at Anime News Network's encyclopedia |
Black Mirror : Black Mirror is a British anthology television series created by Charlie Brooker. The series explores various genres, with most episodes set in near-future dystopias containing sci-fi technology—a type of speculative fiction. The series is inspired by The Twilight Zone and uses the themes of technology a... |
Black Mirror : The series was originally commissioned by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and premiered in December 2011. A second series ran during February 2013. In September 2015, Netflix purchased the programme, commissioning a series of 12 episodes later divided into two series of six episodes. The first six episod... |
Black Mirror : At some periods of time Black Mirror has been one of the most-watched programmes worldwide. According to Víctor Cerdán Martínez of Vivat Academia in 2018, Black Mirror was one of China's five most-watched Western television series. In 2023, Netflix reported that viewing of the sixth series totalled 60 mi... |
Black Mirror : A number of Black Mirror tie-in products have been released. A Nosedive board game based on the episode of the same name was produced by Asmodee. Released on 25 November 2018, the game requires between three and six players and is designed to last for roughly 45 minutes. The fictional game Nohzdyve, whic... |
Black Mirror : Black Mirror on Netflix Black Mirror at IMDb |
Blame! : Blame! (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Tsutomu Nihei. It was published by Kodansha in the seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from 1997 to 2003, with its chapters collected in ten tankōbon volumes. A six-part original net animation (ONA) by Group... |
Blame! : Jarred Pine from Mania.com commented "[it] is not an easy task" to talk about the story in the first volume as "it leaves quite a gamut of questions open for the reader, nothing on the surface to give the reader a sense of direction or purpose". Pine said Blame! doesn't have a mass appeal and "there will be qu... |
Blame! : Pine, Jarred (November 14, 2005). "Blame! Vol. #02". Mania. Archived from the original on March 15, 2013. Retrieved February 17, 2013. Pine, Jarred (March 13, 2006). "Blame! Vol. #03". Mania. Archived from the original on November 23, 2013. Retrieved February 17, 2013. Pine, Jarred (May 17, 2006). "Blame! Vol.... |
Bolo universe : The Bolo universe is a fictional universe based on a series of military science fiction books by author Keith Laumer. It primarily revolves around the eponymous "Bolo", a type of self-aware tank. They first appeared in the short story Combat Unit (1960), and have since been featured in science fiction n... |
Bolo universe : The story of the books takes place in various times from the near-future (2018, 2068), the mid-range future (27th up to 37th century) and even farther in one case (118th century). The overall plot features mostly military themes and includes space exploration, alien races and some advances in human soci... |
Bolo universe : Bolos as envisioned by Laumer in his future history military SF are described as autonomous armoured fighting vehicles of immense size. While the early versions are in the range of a few hundred tons, the "Mark XXXIII", a standard model appearing in the series, weighs 32,000 tons: Their increasingly com... |
Bolo universe : Laumer included a history of the Bolo as an appendix to one of his books. The Mark I is described as conventional large (150 tonne) tank equipped with various servos and mechanical devices to reduce crew requirements. It is developed around the year 2000 by the fictional Bolo Division of General Motors.... |
Bolo universe : Bolos appear in these books by Keith Laumer and others; almost all published by Baen Books: |
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