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

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