Questions about the background universe a work is set in.
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Has setting as a narrator or POV character ever been done? [closed]
I am in the process of writing a science fiction novel and am considering casting an entire city as a POV character. I do believe that I've read a novel with something like this before, but I cannot ...
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When does the Vorkosigan Saga take place?
The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold is set in the far future. Is it ever established exactly when in the future most of the books take place?
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In Eureka, what is the plasma/smoke screensaver they use?
I noticed in Season 3, Episode 16 "You Don't Know Jack", that in the background setting of the locked-down lab, there is a type of multi-colored display of swirling plasma/smoke. I was wondering if ...
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Science Fiction as a setting or genre?
Isaac Asimov was famous (in my mind) for writing detective stories that happened to be set in space. I am also a fan of Joss Whedon's Firefly series for separating the science fiction setting from the ...
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What stories are set in George R.R. Martin's 'future history' universe? (the setting for Dying of the Light)
Dreamsongs vol 1 lists the following in the intro to Section 3:
The Hero (mentioned)
Dying of the Light (first novel, mentioned)
Included in Dreamsongs Vol 1
A Song for Lya
This Tower of Ashes
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Is there a novel using a Dyson Sphere as setting? [closed]
In the ringworld-novels of Larry Niven the author uses a giant ring around the sun as setting. The concept that is going more extrem in this direction is a Sphere around a sun. That concept is called ...
