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:

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

    “Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.”
    —Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)

    “So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man’s life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)