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Science fiction genres

  • Alternate historyThe term alternate history describes a subgenre of speculative fiction where one or more historical events unfold differently than in real life.
  • Gothic fictionHorace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto in 1764, marking the birth of a new literary genre. This work appeared as a translation of a sixteenth-century…
  • Science fantasyForrest J. Ackerman coined the term science fantasy in 1935 as a direct synonym for science fiction. This label emerged during the Golden Age of Science…
  • MultiverseIn the sixth century BCE, the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Anaximander first suggested that infinite worlds might exist.
  • IsekaiIn 1929, the first Buck Rogers comic strip appeared, centering on a Pittsburgh mine worker trapped in a cave-in and preserved for four hundred years.