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Star Wars. Warsies. Film. Starwoids was a fandom name promoted by the 2001 documentary Starwoids[ 336 ] [ 85 ] STAYC. Swith. Music group. Pronounced as "Sweet", the name is a combination of the first letter of STAYC and "With", meaning "Together with STAYC" or "I'll be by STAYC's side."
Steampunk. Original illustration of Jules Verne 's Nautilus engine room. "Maison tournante aérienne" (aerial rotating house) by Albert Robida for his book Le Vingtième Siècle, a 19th-century conception of life in the 20th century. Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired ...
The world in which Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 take place. Final Fantasy X: 2001: V Tékumel: M. A. R. Barker: A technological world is suddenly cast into a "pocket dimension". Reversing the usual sequence of events, Barker spent decades building his elaborate, detailed world before designing the initial tabletop role-playing game.
The cyberpunk world is dystopian, that is, it is the antithesis of utopian visions, very frequent in science fiction produced in the mid-twentieth century, typified by the world of Star Trek, although incorporating some of these utopias. It is sometimes generically defined as "cyberpunk-fantasy" or "cyberfantasy" a work of a fantasy genre that ...
Fantasy. Dieselpunk is a retrofuturistic subgenre of science fiction similar to steampunk or cyberpunk that combines the aesthetics of the diesel -based technology of the interwar period through to the 1950s with retro-futuristic technology [1][2] and postmodern sensibilities. [3] Coined in 2001 by game designer Lewis Pollak to describe his ...
Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world wherein steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found ...
A fantasy world or fictional world is a world created for fictional media, such as literature, film or games. Typical fantasy worlds feature magical abilities. Some worlds may be a parallel world connected to Earth via magical portals or items (like Narnia); an imaginary universe hidden within ours (like Wizarding World); a fictional Earth set in the remote past (like Middle-earth) or future ...
Fantasy-prone personality (FPP) is a disposition or personality trait in which a person experiences a lifelong, extensive, and deep involvement in fantasy. [1] This disposition is an attempt, at least in part, to better describe "overactive imagination " or "living in a dream world ". [2] An individual with this trait (termed a fantasizer) may ...