Terminology
A giant feat of engineering, like Magrathea.
What is a macrostructure?
This Chinese author has won the Galaxy Award of China 9 times, and the first Hugo for a work in translation.
Who is Cixin Liu?
This medium is made up of sequential art panels.
What are comics?
From The Matrix, this character betrays and murders the crew.
Who is Cypher?
This is the name the biologist gives the life form writing on the walls in the tunnel.
What is the Crawler?
Freud's term for something that is both familiar and unfamiliar.
What is the uncanny?
This author coined the term "cyberspace."
Who is William Gibson?
This subgenre imagine what would happen if an important event from the past was altered.
What is alternate history?
This character from "Burning Chrome" longs to be a simstim star.
Who is Rikki?
This is the infinite, mathematical concept that Jing Ke promises will provide the secrets to eternal life.
What is pi?
The feeling of awe/fear/wonder that results from viewing something beyond humanity, like the beauty of nature.
What is the sublime?
These sibling directors have worked as a team on many films; they are know as the [blank] sisters.
Who are the Wachowski sisters?
This subgenre has been described as a mix of "low life and high tech"
What is cyberpunk?
This unnamed narrator decides to remain in Area X rather than returning home.
Who is the biologist?
This chatbot passed the Turing Test in 2014 by posing as a 13-year-old Ukrainian boy.
Who (or what) is Eugene Goostman?
The phrase which describes your state of mind when reading a work of fiction.
What is the Suspension of Disbelief?
This author coined the term "Africanfuturism" to describe her African-centric SF novels.
Who is Nnedi Okorafor?
This subgenre mixes elements of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
What is The New Weird?
This character from "Ue-Pucase: Water Master" eats the forbidden food and turns into a snake.
Who is Chi-Bonne?
This philosophical framework challenges the idea that humans are the pinnacle of a hierarchical chain, and considers how we live within a larger community of animals and technology.
What is posthumanism?
An Anishinaabemowin word meaning "returning to ourselves"
What is Biskaabiiyaang?
This Kickapoo/Creek comics author is also a singer and radio broadcast performer.
Who is Arigon Starr?
This genre was a progenitor of science fiction; it is concerned with the breaking down of boundaries.
What is the Gothic?
This meduse becomes friends with Binti and stays behind at Oomza University
Who is Okwu?
This is the correct spelling of the title of Arigon Starr's graphic short.
What is Ue-Pucase: Water Master?