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:

    “I travel light; as light,
    That is, as a man can travel who will
    Still carry his body around because
    Of its sentimental value.”
    —Christopher Fry (b. 1907)

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    —Stanley Shapiro (1925–1990)

    “Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)