Horror is a branch of Fantastic in which the stories, often sprinkled with supernatural, are written in order to provoke fear, terror among the reader (or the audience). Matching words : Dark Fantasy, Fantastic Exemples : Dracula, by… Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Heroic Fantasy
Originally synonym of “fantasy”, Heroic Fantasy designates today a Fantasy branch in which the stories take place in a medieval (or pre-medieval) context where magic (good or evil) is very important. Matching words : Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery Exemples… Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Fantastic
The Fantastic is a literary and cinematic genre characterised by the appearance of supernatural and unexplained phenomenons in a daily and realistic surroundings. Unlike the Fantasy, the characters of a fantastic story don’t understand nor accept this supernatural intrusion in … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Fantasy
Fantasy is a literary genre characterised by a supernatural appearance in every day’s life, with a strong mythical dimension and frequent recourse to magic. Unlike Fantastic, the Fantasy’s supernatural isn’t necessarily badly lived by the protagonists, but accepted and being … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Uchrony
Uchrony is a literary genre imagining what would be our History if one (or more) past event(s) had taken place in some other way. How would be our present if the Confederates had won the Civil war? If the Germans … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Tricorder
In the Star Trek universe, a tricorder is a portative detector that can realise a large number of measurement: magnetic field, life signs, particles, electromagnetic radiations… all that an away team could have to measure. There is a version specialized … Lire la suite... |
Hard science, more science than fiction
Hard science is a particular science fiction genre in that, as its name seems to indicate (« pure and hard » science), its stories take place in a context with high scientific plausibility. Often, in this kind of story, the … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Hard science
Hard science is a science fiction genre in which science is dominating. In this kind of story, the author attempts to respect as much as possible the science as we know it, or extrapolate its near future and try to … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Robot
The word Robot, from the Slavic word “robota” meaning “work”, designates an artificial mechanical creature that can realise a set of preprogrammed functions. In science fiction, the robot takes often an humanoid form to easily develop in human society. Isaac … Lire la suite... |
Dico S.F. – Artifical intelligence or A.I.
Technically, an Artifical Intelligence (or A.I.) is the « construction of computing programs doing tasks usually reserved tu humans bacause they’re necessitating very complex mental process ». In science fiction, an A.I. designates an artificial creature provided with enough … Lire la suite... |
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