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1 day ago · Time travel is a common plot element in fiction. Works where it plays a prominent role are listed below. For stories of time travel in antiquity, see the history of the time travel concept . Time travel in novels, short stories and on the stage.
3 days ago · Adventure. An adventure story is about a protagonist who journeys to epic or distant places to accomplish something. It can have many other genre elements included within it, because it is a very open genre. The protagonist has a mission and faces obstacles to get to their destination.
2 days ago · 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 extraterrestrial life.
May 10, 2024 · Sir H. Rider Haggard was an English novelist best known for his romantic adventure King Solomon’s Mines (1885). The son of a barrister, Haggard was educated at Ipswich grammar school and by private tutors.
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May 13, 2024 · Jules Verne is famous for his pioneering science-fiction novels, such as Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–70).
- Did Jules Verne invent the submarine?Jules Verne did not invent the submarine, which had a long history before he wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–70). However, his fi...
- Did Jules Verne travel around the world?Jules Verne did not travel around the world like the characters in Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). However, he visited America on board the...
4 days ago · Sherlock Holmes, fictional character created by the Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The prototype for the modern mastermind detective, Holmes first appeared in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton’s Christmas Annual of 1887.
May 1, 2024 · With a new Adrian Tchaikovsky, Mars-set romance from Natasha Pulley and a high-concept thriller from Stuart Turton due to hit shelves, there is plenty of great new science fiction to be reading...
