List of Science Fiction Themes - Travel

Travel

  • Colonization of other planets, moons, asteroids, etc.
    • Terraforming
  • Moving planets
  • Space exploration
    • Interstellar travel
      • Faster-than-light travel and communications
        • Hyperspace
        • Slipstream
        • Warp drives
        • Wormholes
        • Ansibles
    • Much slower than light
      • Generation ship
      • Sleeper ship
    • Very nearly light speed
      • Bussard ramjets
      • Ursula LeGuin's NAFAL ships, and the Twin paradox
    • Space stations
  • Teleportation
    • Portals
  • Time travel
    • Alternate histories: time travel can be used as a plot device to explore parallel universes. While alternate history has its own category (see above), it often occurs in time travel stories as well.
    • Anachronism
    • The Grandfather paradox: can someone go back in time and kill his parents before they beget the killer?
    • Time loop
  • Travel to the Earth's center


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Famous quotes containing the word travel:

    “He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    ““If Steam has done nothing else, it has at least added a whole new Species to English Literature ... the booklets—the little thrilling romances, where the Murder comes at page fifteen, and the Wedding at page forty—surely they are due to Steam?”
    “And when we travel by electricity—if I may venture to develop your theory—we shall have leaflets instead of booklets, and the Murder and the Wedding will come on the same page.””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
    Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
    Strong and content I travel the open road.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)