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Common concepts in SF.

Aliens

  • Humanoid
  • Interfering in human history
  • Invading Earth
  • Non-humanoid

History

  • Repeating itself in long cycles (influences, wars, ideas)
  • Repeating itself in short cycles (i.e. same day occuring repeatedly)

Language

  • All of Earth speaking one language
  • All of Earth speaking Esperanto
  • Extraterrestrian Languages are found (such as Klingon)
  • Human languages split up

Misc

  • Air syringe
  • Enclosed indoor cities
  • Hiveminds
  • Immersive artificial enviroment
  • Memory Removing
  • Parallel universes
  • Planet moving
  • Prime Directive
  • Pure Intelligence being
  • Shapeshifting
  • Telepathy
  • Teleportation
  • Terraforming
  • Time Travel

Planetry Transport

  • Flying cars

Politics

  • Interstellar federation of planets

Religions

  • Anti-Science
  • Anti-Spaceflight

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Sciences

  • Astroengineering
  • Cryogenics
  • Genetic engineering
  • Psychohistory
  • Xenobiology

Spaceflight

  • Atomic Drive
  • Faster than Light drive
  • FTL signature
  • Generation Ship
  • Hyperspace travel
  • Sleeper Ship

Technology

  • Space Stations
  • Teleporters
  • Time Machines
  • Universal Translators
  • Videophone