The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

In the 1950s, many of them were retrospectively patched together into novels, or " fixups " as he called them, a term which entered the vocabulary of science fiction criticism.

The term may also apply to works of fiction purporting to be autobiographies of real characters, e. g., Robert Nye's Memoirs of Lord Byron.

However, with robust error correction, and the possibility of external intervention, the common science fiction theme of robotic life run amok is unlikely in the near term.

In the original Japanese version, these three ( along with the rest of Dr. Gero's artificial creations ) are referred to as jinzouningen, which is a blanket term in Japanese science fiction applying to robots and androids, as well as cyborgs.

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

Eventually the term " Finagle's law " was popularized by science fiction author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners ; this " Belter " culture professed a religion and / or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.

The term was coined in an October 1940 science fiction fanzine by Russ Chauvenet and first popularized within science fiction fandom, from whom it was adopted by others.

* 1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R. U. R., that coined the term " robot ".

Dyson conceived that such structures would be clouds of asteroid-sized space habitats, though science fiction writers have preferred a solid structure: either way, such an artifact is often referred to as a Dyson sphere, although Dyson himself used the term " shell ".

The term itself is an oblique reference to Olaf Stapledon's classic science fiction epic Last and First Men.

The term grimoire commonly serves as an alternative name for a spell-book or tome of magical knowledge in such genres as fantasy fiction and role-playing games.

German gothic fiction is usually described by the term Schauerroman („ shudder novel “).

From these, the Gothic genre per se gave way to modern horror fiction, regarded by some literary critics as a branch of the Gothic although others use the term to cover the entire genre.

Other science fiction authors, such as David Brin or Greg Cox, have borrowed the term over the years as an homage.

He also created the term “ science fiction ”, though he preferred the term " scientifiction ".

The complementary term soft science fiction ( formed by analogy to " hard science fiction ") first appeared in the late 1970s.

Today the term " Soft Science Fiction " is often used to refer to science fiction stories which lack a scientific focus or rigorous adherence to known science.

There was some objection to the term, as many writers preferred terms such as " poetic painting " ( poesia ), or wanted to make a distinction between the " true " istoria, covering history including biblical and religious scenes, and the fabula, covering pagan myth, allegory, and scenes from fiction, which could not be regarded as true.

The term " interactive fiction " is also occasionally used to refer to addventure

In literature, the term irrealism was first used extensively in the United States in the 1970s to describe the post-realist " new fiction " of writers such as Donald Barthelme or John Barth.

If we accept that " Bion introduced a new form of pedagogy in his writings ... the density and non-linearity of his prose ", it comes perhaps to a peak here in what he himself termed " a fictitious account of psychoanalysis including an artificially constructed dream ... science fiction ".

Much of what we know about Robert-Houdin comes from his memoirs — and his writings were meant more to entertain than to chronicle, rendering it difficult to separate fact from fiction.

The original focus was science fiction fanzines ( the title comes from a short story by science fiction author John Brunner ).

From about the year 970 comes the first lengthy work of fiction in Japanese, Utsubo Monogatari ( The Tale of the Hollow Tree ), which includes this passage: " A tree that is left growing in its natural state is a crude thing.

Some commentators believe that whether the trust fund is a fact or fiction comes down to whether the trust fund contributes to national savings or not.

Another possible interpretation is that the Toynbee reference comes from the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury's short story " The Toynbee Convector ", which alludes to Toynbee's idea that in order to survive, humankind must always rush to meet the future, i. e., believe in a better world, and must always aim far beyond what is practically possible, in order to reach something barely within reach.

Ty Burr, later film critic for the Boston Globe, reviewing the novel in 1991 for Entertainment Weekly, praised Roszak's writing: " Still best known for 1968's The Making of a Counter Culture, a book that sought to explain ' 60s youth to an older generation of intellectuals, the writer proves to be a spellbinder when it comes to fiction.

In works of fiction, distraction is often used as a source of comedy, whether the amusement comes from the gullibility of those distracted or the strangeness of whatever is utilized to create the distraction.

The title of the essay comes from Woolf's conception that, ' a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction '.

" On the critical side, he says the film " never satisfactorily comes full circle " and missed the opportunity " to do what the best science fiction does, and use the future as a way to critique the present.

The name " Atorox " comes from the works of Aarne Haapakoski ( 1904 – 1961 ), who was one of the first science fiction writers in Finland.

The humorous aspect comes from comedic or nonsensical plots that can result from the introduction of fantastic features ; the term " comic fantasy " has been suggested for this type of fiction.

Ghost Dance is John Norman's 1979 historical fiction novel wherein a Sioux man and his tradition comes in conflict with a white woman and her civilization as the Wounded Knee Massacre approaches.

The final twist to the mystery comes from science fiction: the theft of the bird stump itself was committed as part of an even grander design, relating to a time and a place both far removed and intimately connected with the events in 2057.

* Human insight comes from the idea that the purpose of much science fiction is to understand ourselves better through exploring possible futures or speculative realities.

Perhaps the best known giant rat in fiction comes from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who in The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire has Sherlock Holmes declare, as an aside, to Dr. Watson:

In science fiction stories involving time travel, an alternative future or alternate future is a possible future which never comes to pass, typically because someone travels back into the past and alters it so that the events of the alternative future cannot occur.

In the story, Peter Chancellor, who found unlikely success as an author of political thrillers after his ambitions to become a historian were frustrated, writes a work of fiction that comes close enough to the scenario described that the people who controlled those files, a group called Inver Brass in the novel, decide that someone else may also know too much.

' Who she is does not matter, for her book is far above the average of current fiction, in fact, comes well under the classification of a ' good book.

Her boyfriend, science fiction fan Dave, dies at the end of Escape Velocity and how Anji comes to terms with his memory is a recurring theme in the character's development, notably in the novel Hope in which Anji causes a clone of Dave to be born.

The novel is an important contribution to African American and ethnic detective fiction in that it focuses on a Black protagonist who falls into the role of detective but, by the series end, has made this profession and the identity that often comes along with it his own.

* A bracelet worn by a slave ( this meaning comes from BDSM fiction, e. g. John Norman's Gor series of novels ; in this context it may be a colloquial term for handcuffs ).

The name of the band comes from a neologism " ruja ", for science fiction, though there are people who believe that " ruja " is actually made up of the first letters of the band's important members ( R – Rein Rannap, U – Urmas Alender, J – Jaanus Nõgisto and A – Andrus Vaht ).