These stories focus on hidden abilities or secret knowledge. They can be about things like psychic abilities or witchcraft.
What is Supernatural Fiction?
These stories incorporate steam-powered machinery with modern technology.
What is Steam Punk?
A note added by way of comment or explanation in the margins of a text.
What is an annotation?
This classic Sci-Fi element involves a bit of mind-reading.
What is telepathy?
This OPL event includes a school wide fashion show.
What is the Trashion Show?
These stories are often satirical and focus on ideal or perfect societies.
What is Utopian Fiction?
These stories focus on less advanced broken-down societies juxtaposed with advanced technology.
What is Cyber Punk?
A literary device that refers to the use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for a reader. Writers appeal to a reader’s senses of sight, taste, smell, touch, and sound, as well as their internal emotions and feelings.
What is imagery?
This classic Sci-Fi element involves instantaneous movement from one place to another.
What is Teleportation?
Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot are an example of this OPL principle.
What is Zero Waste?
These stories often focus on problematic societies with oppression, controlling governments, and poverty.
What is Dystopian Fiction?
This refers to an art movement that broadly envisions how the future might look if we lived in harmony with nature and technology in a sustainable and egalitarian world.
What is Solarpunk?
This compares two things that share one characteristic but aren't alike otherwise (WITHOUT using “like” or “as.”)
What is a metaphor?
Eckels utilizes this in "Sound of Thunder".
What is Time Travel?
A compostable toliet is an example of this principle.
What is sustainable water?
These stories blend Western and Science Fiction genres.
What is Space Western?
This is a culture popular among young people, especially in the late 1970s, involving opposition to authority expressed through shocking behavior, clothes, and hair, and fast, loud music.
What is Punk?
A reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.
What is an allusion?
Black Panther's Shuri - Wakanda’s leading scientist and designer of Black Panther’s combat gear uses this sci fi element.
What is Speculative Technology?
Mx. Lannon has a cat named after this pop star.
What is Britney Spears?
These stories take Sci-Fi elements and blend them with topics like relationships, romance, and adventure.
What is Space Opera?
This movement combines diesel-based technology with the aesthetics and cultural mindset of the 1920s-1950s. There’s a heavy sense of brewing war, gray morality, and fighting the impossible.
What is Dieselpunk?
This is a literary technique writers use to add/give human qualities to non-human things. It helps the reader create a picture in their mind.
What is Personification?
H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" includes this classic Sci-Fi element.
What are aliens?
This British organization designed the 10 OPL Principles.
What is Bioregional?