Science fiction vocabulary

English

Utopia

An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.

Apocalyptic

Resembling the end of the world; momentous or catastrophic.

Post-Apocalyptic

Describing or relating to the situation after the destruction of the world.

Science fiction

Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environment changes.

Universe

It is everything, it includes all of space, and all of matter and energy that space contains.

Man vs technology

A conflict where a character or characters are pittied against technology.

Pandemic

A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease over a whole country or the world at a particular time.

Extinction

The fact or process of a species, family, or other groups of animals or plants becoming extinct.

Fiction

Literature that is caused from the author’s imagination, not presented as fact, though it may be based on a true story or situation.

Cyberpunk

Science fiction dealing with future urban societies dominated by computer technology.

Genocide

The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

Black hole

A region in space with such intense gravity that nothing, not even light, can escape it, formed when a massive star collapses, concentrating its mass into a tiny volume.

Asteroid impact

Collisions between asteroids or other celestial bodies and planets or moons, causing measurable effects, and have shaped the surface of our planet.

Bionic

Having artificial body parts, especially electromechanical ones.

Cybernetics

The science of communications and automatic control systems in both machines and living things.

Cloning

Make an identical copy of.

Cryogenics

The science that addresses the production and effects of very low temperatures.

Teleportation

The act to process of moving somebody/something immediately from one place to another a distance away, using special equipment.

Telepathy

The ability to know what is in someone else’s mind, or to communicate with someone mentally without using words or other physical signals.

Virtual Reality

A computer-generated environment with scenes and objects that appear to be real, making the user feel they are immersed in their surroundings.

Germ warfare

The use of harmful microorganisms (such as bacteria) as weapons in war, or just germs fighting people.

Morphing

An effect which sees one shape or object transform into another in a seamless transition.

Anachronism

Something, like a person, event, or object, that is mistakenly placed in a time period that is not its own, that is out of it’s historical context.

Telekinesis

The supposed ability to move objects or manipulate matter using only one’s mind without any physical contact or force.