Terminology
What is a frame narrative?
This Japanese author has won every major literary prize her country awards.
Who is Yōko Ogawa?
This medium is made up of sequential art panels.
What are comics?
From The Memory Police, this character is hides in the narrator's secret room.
Who is R?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was originally produced in this format.
What is a radio show?
Freud's term for something that is both familiar and unfamiliar.
What is the uncanny?
This humorous author referred to himself as a "radical atheist."
Who is Douglas Adams?
The absurdity of this subgenre reminds us that our institutions are odd creations, and our traditions and habits are strange.
What is satire?
This character from "Burning Chrome" longs to be a simstim star.
Who is Rikki?
In "Stones," the main character is born on an asteroid near this planet.
What is Saturn?
This phrase refers to a story that begins in the middle of the action; Latin for "into the middle of things."
What is in medias res?
Who is William Gibson?
This subgenre has been described as a mix of "low life and high tech"
What is cyberpunk?
This character from Alien turns out to be a cyborg who has been tasked with betraying the ship's crew.
Who is Ash?
This scientist made astronomy legible to the public and sent messages into space
Who is Carl Sagan?
The phrase which describes your state of mind when reading a work of fiction.
What is the Suspension of Disbelief?
This author is known for stories about hybridity, and complex power dynamics between humans and aliens.
Who is Octavia Butler?
This subgenre mixes elements of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.
What is The New Weird?
This character from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy shows Arthur around the planet-making factory floor.
Who is Slartibartfast?
This is a prestigious writing workshop specifically for science fiction writers.
What is the Clarion Workshop?
Refers to a layering of different words or forms on top of one another.
What is palimpsest?
This author claimed, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Who is Arthur C Clarke?
This genre was a progenitor of science fiction; it is concerned with the breaking down of boundaries.
What is the Gothic?
She is the sister of the main character in "Bloodchild"
Who is Hoa?
This is the correct spelling of the title of Arigon Starr's graphic short.
What is Ue-Pucase: Water Master?