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Fandom. Cosplayer dressed as Katniss Everdeen during the Montreal Comiccon, July 2015. A fandom is a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of camaraderie with others who share a common interest. Fans typically are interested in even minor details of the objects of their fandom and spend a significant portion of their time and ...
t. e. Space exploration, as predicted in August 1958 by the science fiction magazine Imagination. Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and ...
Fan art. Fan art or fanart is artwork created by fans of a work of fiction and derived from a series character or other aspect of that work. As fan labor, fan art refers to artworks that are neither created nor (normally) commissioned or endorsed by the creators of the work from which the fan art derives. A different, older meaning of the term ...
Russian cosmism, also cosmism, is a later term [1] for philosophical and cultural movement that emerged in Russia at the turn of the 19th century, and again, at the beginning of the 20th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, there was a burst of scientific investigation into interplanetary travel, largely driven by fiction writers such ...
Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement that envisions and works toward actualizing a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. [3] [4] [5] The "solar" represents solar energy as a renewable energy source and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism, [6] while the "punk" refers to the ...
Sequential art. In comics studies, sequential art is a term proposed by comics artist Will Eisner [1] to describe art forms that use images deployed in a specific order for the purpose of graphic storytelling [2] (i.e., narration of graphic stories) [3] or conveying information. [2] The best-known example of sequential art is comics.
Biopunk. Biopunk (a portmanteau of "biotechnology" or "biology" and "punk") is a subgenre of science fiction that focuses on biotechnology. It is derived from cyberpunk, but focuses on the implications of biotechnology rather than mechanical cyberware and information technology. [1] Biopunk is concerned with synthetic biology.
Vincent Di Fate. Cover art for Broke Down Engine (and Other Troubles with Machines) by Ron Goulart, 1969. Vincent Di Fate (born November 21, 1945) [1] is an American artist specializing in science fiction, fantasy and realistic space art (hardware art) illustration. He was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on June 25, 2011.