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Diaspora (novel) : Author's website Orphanogenesis, the first chapter of the novel, available for free download Diaspora title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database |
Digimon Universe: App Monsters : Digimon Universe: App Monsters (Japanese: デジモンユニバース アプリモンスターズ, Hepburn: Dejimon Yunibāsu Apuri Monsutāzu) is a Japanese multimedia project created by Toei Company, Dentsu and Bandai Namco Holdings, under the pseudonym Akiyoshi Hongo. The series' theme revolves around technological singu... |
Digimon Universe: App Monsters : In the year 2045, technology has finally evolved to a degree of prosperity for the world. The World Wide Web has become a world for "App Monsters" (アプリモンスターズ, Apurimonsutāzu) or "Appmons", artificially intelligent beings born within mobile apps. The series focuses on Haru Shinkai, an ev... |
Digimon Universe: App Monsters : The series placed 12th on the 2018 Tokyo Anime Award Festival's Anime Fan Award. |
Digimon Universe: App Monsters : Official products website Official anime website Digimon Universe: App Monsters at IMDb Digimon Universe: App Monsters (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia |
Dimension W : Dimension W is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yūji Iwahara. It was published in Square Enix's seinen manga magazine Young Gangan from September 2011 to November 2015 and later in Monthly Big Gangan from December 2015 to June 2019. It is licensed in North America by Yen Press. The serie... |
Dimension W : In the year 2036, a fourth dimensional axis called Dimension W is proven to exist. Cross-dimensional electromagnetic induction devices, known as Coils, were developed to draw out the inexhaustible supply of energy that exists in Dimension W. New Tesla Energy and governments built sixty giant towers around... |
Dimension W : Dimension W at Monthly Big Gangan (in Japanese) Official anime website (in Japanese) Dimension W (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia |
The Djinn's Wife : "The Djinn's Wife" is a 2006 science fiction short story by British writer Ian McDonald. It was first published in Asimov's Science Fiction. |
The Djinn's Wife : Esha is a dancer and A.J. Rao is an artificial intelligence embodied in a swarm of nanobots. They get married, but their relationship quickly turns sour. |
The Djinn's Wife : "The Djinn's Wife" won the 2007 Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the 2007 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction. At Tangent Online, Carole Ann Moleti called it "sumptuous" and "ethereal", noting that it met all the criteria to be considered an example of paranormal romance. At SF Signal, however, John D... |
Dodkin's Job : Dodkin's Job is a dystopian science fiction novella by Jack Vance, written in 1959. It is on the theme of the organization theory of human society, which Vance depicts as a complex, interconnected machine. When society is a well-ordered system, all of the human parts interconnect well and the society wil... |
Dodkin's Job : In a future society, all people are organized using a strict, scientifically designed rational system. They are assessed, given a skills rating, and assigned to the job that best suits their natural talents and personality type. Their schedule, living quarters, the type of food they eat, and even their s... |
Dry Drowning : Dry Drowning is a cyberpunk mystery visual novel developed by Studio V and published by VLG Publishing and WhisperGames for Microsoft Windows on August 2, 2019. It was released on the Nintendo Switch on February 22, 2021. |
Dry Drowning : The player takes control of Mordred Foley and has to read through the story, while making decisions at certain points. Depending on the choices, the player can influence the relationship to other characters as well as the course of the game, discovering more than 150 story branches, and eventually reach ... |
Dry Drowning : The game is set in the fictional and totalitarian city Nova Polemos in Europa in 2066. Mordred Foley and Hera Kairis are private investigators and before the events of the game, they sent two of the most dangerous serial killers ever, Jennifer Kingston and Robert Herrington, to the electric chair. Howeve... |
Dry Drowning : The game was initially conceived by Giacomo Masi and Samuele Zolfanelli, then developed by Studio V and directed and written by Giacomo Masi. It was originally written in Italian and translated into English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and German. The soundtrack was composed, written, and performed by Gio... |
Dry Drowning : According to review aggregator Metacritic, Dry Drowning received "mixed or average reviews" for PC based on 11 reviews and "generally favorable reviews" for Nintendo Switch based on 6 reviews. 4players.de gave a positive rating of 80% and wrote: "Stylish noir thriller with an interesting story, but mecha... |
Dry Drowning : Official website Dry Drowning at The Visual Novel Database Game credits |
Dudesy : Dudesy was a comedy podcast hosted by Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen. The podcast was presented as written and directed by an artificial intelligence called Dudesy. It has produced two hour-long specials imitating the voices of Tom Brady and George Carlin, which were taken down following legal action. |
Dudesy : Dudesy is presented as an AI created by an unidentified company. Dudesy purportedly chose Sasso and Kultgen to participate in its experiment. Sasso and Kultgen then gave Dudesy their personal information so the AI could tailor the podcast to their personal characteristics. On Reddit, some fans speculated that ... |
Eclipse Phase : Eclipse Phase is a science fiction horror role-playing game with transhumanist themes. It was originally published by Catalyst Game Labs, and is now published by the game's creators, Posthuman Studios,: 388 and is released under a Creative Commons license. |
Eclipse Phase : Eclipse Phase is a science fiction horror role-playing game with transhumanist, post-apocalyptic, and conspiracy themes. The game is set after a World War III project to create artificial intelligence known as TITANs has gone rogue, resulting in the deaths of over 90% of the inhabitants of Earth. Earth ... |
Eclipse Phase : Eclipse Phase uses a simple roll-under percentile die system for task resolution.: 395 Unlike most percentile systems, a roll of 00 does not count as a 100. In addition, any roll of a double (11, 22, 33 etc.) is a critical. If the double is under the target number it is a critical success, while being o... |
Eclipse Phase : The Eclipse Phase roleplaying game was released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license, and newer printings have updated to the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 license; the text found on the Eclipse Phase website is licensed under the Creati... |
Eclipse Phase : In 2010, it won the 36th Annual Origins award for Best Roleplaying Game of 2009.: 396 It also won three 2010 ENnie awards: Gold for Best Writing, Silver for Best Cover Art, and Silver for Product of the Year. |
Eclipse Phase : Transhuman Space Orion's Arm Hard science fiction |
Eclipse Phase : Official website Eclipse Phase page at Geekdo |
Eden: It's an Endless World! : Eden: It's an Endless World! is a Japanese science fiction manga series written and illustrated by Hiroki Endo. It was published monthly in the Japanese magazine Monthly Afternoon. |
Eden: It's an Endless World! : The story is set in the near future, following the "closure virus" pandemic has killed 15 percent of the world's population, crippled or disfigured many more, with catastrophic effect on global politics. Its themes and many character names are taken from Gnostic mythology. |
Eden: It's an Endless World! : The series begins with a long introduction, with the characters Ennoia and Hannah living a peaceful life on a remote and isolated island called Eden, with researcher Lane Morris, who is their guardian and a victim of the pandemic. The events that led to this situation are revealed in flas... |
Eden: It's an Endless World! : Eden was named Wizard magazine's best manga of 2007. David F. Smith of Newtype USA has called Eden one of the best manga American money can buy. |
Eden: It's an Endless World! : Eden: It's an Endless World! at Dark Horse Comics' official website Eden: It's an Endless World! (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia |
The Engine : The Engine is a fictional device described in the 1726 satirical novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. It is possibly the earliest known reference to a device in any way resembling a modern computer. The Engine is a device that generates permutations of word sets. It is found at the Academy of Projec... |
The Engine : Infinite monkey theorem – Counterintuitive result in probability SCIgen – Random text generating software Large language model – Type of machine learning model |
The Engine : "Knowledge Engine – The first reference to a machine that could create sentences or write books". Technovelgy.com. "Gulliver's Engine". Computer History Museum. 28 November 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2016. |
Felix, Net i Nika : Felix, Net i Nika ("Felix, Net and Nika") is a series of Polish language science fiction books for teenagers, written by Rafał Kosik. It tells the adventures of three friends - Felix Polon, Net Bielecki and Nika Mickiewicz - who attend fictional Professor Kuszmiński Middle School in Warsaw. As of 20... |
Felix, Net i Nika : There are currently 18 books in the series: Felix, Net and Nika and the Gang of Invisible People - November 2004. Felix, Net and Nika and the Theoretically Possible Catastrophe - November 2005 Felix, Net and Nika and the Palace of Dreams - November 2006 Felix, Net and Nika and the Trap of Immortalit... |
Felix, Net i Nika : A feature motion picture, Felix, Net i Nika oraz teoretycznie mozliwa katastrofa (Felix, Net and Nika and the Theoretically Possible Catastrophe) was released in Poland on September 28, 2012. |
Felix, Net i Nika : Felix Polon - a foresighted, fair-haired boy with dark brown eyes. He inherited the talent of constructing various things, especially robots, from his father- it saved his friends many times. He can make anything from nothing, always finds a way out of a situation; almost always has a plan. Together... |
Felix, Net i Nika : Official webpage - The series' official webpage with posts in English Rafał Kosik - the Author's webpage Felix, Net & Nika FanClub – an official Fan Club (in Polish) |
Artificial intelligence in fiction : Artificial intelligence is a recurrent theme in science fiction, whether utopian, emphasising the potential benefits, or dystopian, emphasising the dangers. The notion of machines with human-like intelligence dates back at least to Samuel Butler's 1872 novel Erewhon. Since then, man... |
Artificial intelligence in fiction : The notion of advanced robots with human-like intelligence dates back at least to Samuel Butler's 1872 novel Erewhon. This drew on an earlier (1863) article of his, Darwin among the Machines, where he raised the question of the evolution of consciousness among self-replicating machi... |
Artificial intelligence in fiction : Artificial intelligence is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals. It is a recurrent theme in science fiction; scholars have divided it into utopian, emphasising the potential benefits, and dystopian, emph... |
Artificial intelligence in fiction : Biology in fiction Darwin among the Machines Machine rule Simulated consciousness (science fiction) List of artificial intelligence films |
Artificial intelligence in fiction : Goode, Luke (30 October 2018). "Life, but not as we know it: A.I. and the popular imagination". Culture Unbound. 10 (2). Linkoping University Electronic Press: 185–207. doi:10.3384/cu.2000.1525.2018102185. hdl:2292/48285. ISSN 2000-1525. S2CID 149523987. Lucas, Duncan (2002). Body, ... |
Artificial intelligence in fiction : AI and Sci-Fi: My, Oh, My!:Keynote Address by Robert J. Sawyer 2002 AI and Cinema - Does artificial insanity rule? by Robert B. Fisher |
A Fire Upon the Deep : A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. It is a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a communication medium resembling Usenet. A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in... |
A Fire Upon the Deep : The novel is set in various locations in the Milky Way. The galaxy is divided into four concentric volumes called the "Zones of Thought"; it is not clear to the novel's characters whether this is a natural phenomenon or an artificially produced one, but it seems to roughly correspond with galacti... |
A Fire Upon the Deep : An expedition from Straumli Realm, a young human civilization in the high Beyond, investigates a newly discovered five-billion-year-old data archive in the low Transcend that offers the possibility of unimaginable riches. The expedition's facility, High Lab, is gradually and secretly compromised ... |
A Fire Upon the Deep : Vinge first used the concepts of "Zones of Thought" in a 1988 novella The Blabber, which occurs after Fire. Vinge's novel A Deepness in the Sky (1999) is a prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep set 20,000 years earlier and featuring Pham Nuwen. Vinge's The Children of the Sky, "a near-term sequel to A ... |
A Fire Upon the Deep : Vinge's original title for the novel was "Among the Tines"; its final title was suggested by his editors. |
A Fire Upon the Deep : A Fire Upon the Deep shared the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel with Doomsday Book. The book was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel of 1992, the 1993 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the 1993 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. |
A Fire Upon the Deep : Jo Walton wrote: "Any one of the ideas in A Fire Upon the Deep would have kept an ordinary writer going for years. For me it's the book that does everything right, the example of what science fiction does when it works. ... A Fire Upon the Deep remains a favourite and a delight to re-read, absorb... |
A Fire Upon the Deep : A Fire Upon the Deep title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database A Fire Upon the Deep at Open Library A Fire Upon the Deep at Worlds Without End The book with Vinge's commentaries |
For a Breath I Tarry : "For a Breath I Tarry" is a 1966 post-apocalyptic novelette by American writer Roger Zelazny, which was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1967. Taking place long after the self-extinction of Man, it recounts the tale of Frost, a sentient machine. While humans have long ago caused... |
For a Breath I Tarry : For a Breath I Tarry title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database |
The Fractal Prince : The Fractal Prince is the second science fiction novel by Hannu Rajaniemi and the second novel to feature the post-human gentleman thief Jean le Flambeur. It was published in Britain by Gollancz in September 2012, and by Tor in the same year in the US. The novel is the second in the trilogy, follow... |
The Fractal Prince : After the events of The Quantum Thief, Jean le Flambeur and Mieli are on their way to Earth. Jean is trying to open the Schrödinger's Box he retrieved from the memory palace on the Oubliette. After making little progress, he is prodded by the ship Perhonen to talk to Mieli, who turns out to be poss... |
The Fractal Prince : In the acknowledgments, Rajaniemi cites the influence of "Andy Clark, Douglas Hofstadter, Maurice Leblanc, Jan Potocki and [...] The Arabian Nights." |
The Fractal Prince : The novel has received generally positive reviews. However, criticisms of the novel still revolve around Rajaniemi's uncompromising "show, don't tell" style. For example, Amy Goldschlager, writing for the Los Angeles Review of Books, suggested that "[a] bit more explication of the physics involved ... |
The Fractal Prince : The Fractal Prince, Hannu Rajaniemi: Gollancz, 2012, ISBN 978-0-575-08891-7 (paperback ISBN 978-0-575-08892-4) |
The Fractal Prince : List of characters in the Jean le Flambeur series |
The Fractal Prince : Hannu Rajaniemi at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Glossary for The Quantum Thief / The Fractal Prince / Jean le Flambeur, replacing the deleted Wikipedia glossary |
Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon : Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon (フラジール ～さよなら月の廃墟～, Furajīru: Sayonara Tsuki no Haikyo, known in Japan as Fragile) is an action role-playing game for the Wii developed by Namco Bandai Games in co-operation with Tri-Crescendo. The game was released by Namco Bandai G... |
Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon : In Fragile Dreams, the player character, Seto, must traverse the ruins of Tokyo and the surrounding areas, fighting off ghosts that lurk within these ruins. The game's heads-up display includes a mini-map and HP gauge for Seto's location and health, respectively. Seto will f... |
Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon : Fragile Dreams was developed by the team at Namco Bandai Games. Director and producer Kentarō Kawashima came up with the concept for the game in 2003, before the Wii console was revealed. When the Wii was unveiled, it became the obvious choice as the game's platform as the W... |
Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon : Fragile Dreams sold 26,055 copies during its week of release in Japan, making it the 2nd best-selling game of the week. The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. The substantial amount of criticism came from the game's gamepl... |
Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon : Official website (in Japanese) Official website Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon at IMDb Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon at MobyGames |
Full Dive : Full Dive, short for Full Dive: This Ultimate Next-Gen Full Dive RPG Is Even Shittier than Real Life! (Japanese: 究極進化したフルダイブRPGが現実よりもクソゲーだったら, Hepburn: Kyūkyoku Shinka shita Furu Daibu RPG ga Genjitsu yori mo Kusogē Dattara), is a Japanese light novel series written by Light Tuchihi and illustrated by Youta... |
Full Dive : Hiroshi Yūki, with the player name of Hiro, is a high school boy who loves to play virtual reality MMORPGs in order to escape reality. When a game store manager named Reona Kisaragi tricks him into buying the game Kiwame Quest, he soon discovers that it is not what it seems. Unlike regular games, it is a ga... |
Full Dive : Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, another light novel series by the same author |
Full Dive : Light novel official website (in Japanese) Anime official website (in Japanese) Full Dive (novel) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia |
Futuresport : Futuresport is a 1998 American made-for-television sports film directed by Ernest Dickerson, starring Dean Cain, Vanessa Williams, and Wesley Snipes. It originally aired on ABC in October 1998, and was released on VHS and DVD in March 1999. |
Futuresport : The film is set in 2025, and centers on a sport called "Futuresport" (a combination of basketball, baseball and hockey that uses hoverboards and rollerblades) created as a non-lethal way to reduce gang warfare. Tre Ramzey (Dean Cain) along with his ex-girlfriend Alex Torres (Vanessa Williams) and his old ... |
Futuresport : Futuresport at IMDb |
Ghost in the Shell : Ghost in the Shell is a Japanese cyberpunk media franchise based on the manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow. The manga, first serialized between 1989 and 1991, is set in mid-21st century Japan and tells the story of the fictional counter-cyberterrorist organizat... |
Ghost in the Shell : Ghost in the Shell influenced some prominent filmmakers. The Wachowskis, creators of The Matrix and its sequels, showed it to producer Joel Silver, saying, "We wanna do that for real." The Matrix series took several concepts from the film, including the Matrix digital rain, which was inspired by th... |
Ghost in the Shell : Official website (in Japanese) Madman Entertainment's Australian distribution release site Ghost in the Shell (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia |
The Great Automatic Grammatizator : The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories) is a posthumous 1998 collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl. The stories were selected for teenagers from Dahl's adult works. All the stories included we... |
The Great Automatic Grammatizator : "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" (from Someone Like You): A mechanically-minded man reasons that the rules of grammar are fixed by certain, almost mathematical principles. By exploiting this idea, he is able to create a mammoth machine that can write a prize-winning novel in rough... |
The Great Automatic Grammatizator : Dahl, Roald (19 January 2004). The Umbrella Man and Other Stories. Speak. ISBN 9780142400876. |
The Great Automatic Grammatizator : Groff Conklin in 1954 called the short story "The Great Automatic Grammatizator" "an awe-inspiring fantasy-satire ... an unforgettable bit of biting nonsense". == References == |
Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise : Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise (Japanese: ガンダムビルドダイバーズRe:RISE, Hepburn: Gandamu Birudo Daibāzu Re:Raizu) is a Japanese original net animation anime series produced by Sunrise Beyond. A sequel to the 2018 anime Gundam Build Divers, it is the first Gundam anime series to be released in the Reiw... |
Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise : Two years have passed since the EL-Diver Incident, an event that almost destroyed the Gunpla Battle Nexus Online (GBN) game until it was resolved by the force group known as "Build Divers", and soon after more EL-Divers were discovered. In order to make the game more secure, a newer versio... |
Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise : The series was first teased back in the Gundam 40th Anniversary Beyond Press conference back on November 11, 2018. On July 5, 2019, Sunrise teased the new series in a preview during the 40th anniversary promotional video. and revealed the official title during the 2019 Japan Expo in Paris.... |
Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise : Official website (in Japanese) Official website (BS11) (in Japanese) Gundam Build Divers Re:Rise (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia |
Gundam Build Metaverse : Gundam Build Metaverse (Japanese: ガンダムビルドメタバース, Hepburn: Gandamu Birudo Metabāzu) is a Japanese original net animation anime mini-series produced by Sunrise Beyond. The series celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Gundam Build franchise, including characters from the previous installments, als... |
Gundam Build Metaverse : The story is set in the same universe of the Gundam Build series in an online metaverse space where users can use avatars to move around and interact with other users, including conducting Gunpla (Gundam plastic model) battles with them. The story centers on Rio Hōjō, a boy who lives in Hawaii,... |
Gundam Build Metaverse : Official website (in Japanese) Official website (in English) |
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising : Hostile Waters, released as Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising in America, is a hybrid vehicle and strategy game developed and published by Rage Software for Microsoft Windows. It was inspired by Carrier Command (Realtime Games, 1988). It has won several awards and one unofficial award from... |
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising : Hostile Waters takes place in a Utopian future where war has been abolished. In the year 2012, a revolutionary war takes place between the corrupt and power-hungry politicians, leaders and businessmen (described as the "Old Guard") and the people. The Old Guard were defeated, with only ... |
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising : Each Mission takes place on and or near a fortified enemy island containing various forms of anti-air and ground defence, with scattered unit-production complexes powered by oil-derricks and fuel containers (which are dependent on the oil-derricks) that the player can destroy to keep th... |
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising : The game was developed by 12 people. |
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising : The game received "favourable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Carla Harker of NextGen said, "You'll feel like a real battlefield general when you take to the field in Antaeus Rising." Jake The Snake of GamePro said, "If the usual game categories leave yo... |
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising : Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising at MobyGames |
House of Suns : House of Suns is a 2008 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. The novel was shortlisted for the 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award. |
House of Suns : Approximately six million years in the future, humanity has spread throughout the Milky Way galaxy, which appears devoid of any other organic sentient life. The galaxy is populated by numerous civilizations of humans and posthumans of widely varying levels of development. A civilization of sentient robo... |
House of Suns : The novel is divided into eight parts, with the first chapter of each part taking the form of a narrative flashback to Abigail Gentian’s early life (six million years earlier, in the 31st century), before the cloning and the creation of the Gentian Line. Each subsequent chapter is narrated from the firs... |
House of Suns : The novel is set in the same fictional setting as Reynolds' novella "Thousandth Night", which appears in the anthology One Million A.D.. Reynolds has stated on his blog that the longer work "does not attempt slavish consistency" with "Thousandth Night". (A number of characters killed in the novella make... |
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