On Boxing Day, Alasdair Wilkins published a fasinating list of the Ten Plotlines You’ll Find in Science Fiction Over and Over Again on the io9 website. For each example he looked at where the plotline came from, how it became so iconic and how they are being used by modern writers.
With it being such a huge post I’m just going to list the ten plotlines here and suggest you head over to io9.com to get the detail:
- Robots,
- Interstellar Travel
- Time Travel
- Superpowers
- Bodily Transformations
- Parallel Universes
- Alien Invasion
- Immortality
- The Post-Apocalyptic World
- Godlike Aliens
Alasdair Wilkins is a reporter at io9.com specialising on science pieces. Ten Plotlines You’ll Find in Science Fiction Over and Over Again first appeared on io9.com on the 17th of November 2011.