List of Science Fiction Themes - Beings

Beings

• Alternative intelligences
  • Beings of pure mentality
  • Hive minds
  • Infomorphs—memories, characters, and consciences of persons being uploaded to a computer or storage media
  • Noosphere—the "sphere of human thought"
  • Solipsism & Solipsism syndrome—the idea that one's own mind is all that exists.
    • Simulated consciousness (science fiction)
• Artificial intelligence
  • Androids and Gynoids
  • Cyborgs
  • Robots and humanoid robots: Robots in fiction
  • Replicants
  • Simulated consciousness (science fiction)
• Characters
  • The Absent-minded professor
  • The Detective
  • The Golem
  • The Ignorant Friend
  • Redshirt
  • The Robot Clone
  • The Robot Servant
  • The Scientist
    • The Mad Scientist
    • The Amoral Scientist
    • The Heroic Scientist
  • The Wedge
• Clones
• Dinosaurs
• Extraterrestrial life (see Extraterrestrial life in culture)
  • Alien invasion
  • Astrobiology
  • Benevolent aliens
  • God-like aliens
  • First contact
    • Principles of non-interference (e.g. Prime Directive)
    • Message from space
• Living planets (both sentinent and non-sentinent)
• Mutants
• Shapeshifters
• Superhumans
• Symbionts
• UFOs
• Uplifted animals—using technology to "raise" non-human animals to human evolutionary levels