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  Science fiction

  Science fiction film is a film genre that uses science fiction: speculative, science-based depictions of phenomena that aren't necessarily accepted by mainstream science, such as extra-terrestrial life forms, alien worlds, esp, and time travel, often along with futuristic elements such as...
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  Computing Science

  Computer science or computing science (sometimes abbreviated CS) is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the systematic study of algorithmic...
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  Nanotechnology

  Nanotechnology, shortened to "nanotech", is the study of the controlling of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller in at least one dimension, and involves developing materials or devices within that size....
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  Satire

  Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form, although in practice it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods,...
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  Time travel

  Time travel is a common theme in science fiction and is depicted in a variety of media. It simply means either going forward in time or backward, like seeing the future, or the past. Time travel can form the central theme of a book, or it can be simply a plot device. Time travel in fiction can...
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  England

  England ( /ˈɪŋɡlənd/ (help·info)) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south...
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  Detective fiction

  Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction in which a detective (or detectives), either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder. The earliest known example of a detective story was "The Three Apples", one of the tales narrated by Scheherazade in the One Thousand and One...
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  Novel

  A novel is a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century. The further definition of the genre is historically...
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  Crime fiction

  A Crime film, in the most general sense, is a film that involves various aspects crime and the criminal justice system. Stylistically, it can fall under many different genres, most commonly drama film, thriller film, mystery film, action film and film noir. Films focused on the Mafia are a typical...
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  Horror

  Horror fiction is a genre of fiction, which is intended to scare its readers, and horror is synonymously used with a shudder. The genre of horror has other names that are regularly used, examples of these are: thriller, dark fantasy, terror, dark suspense etc. The genre originated in 1700s and the...